Back to the Basics
The field in which psychologists study how people grow and change throughout the life span.
Developmental Psychology
Young infants pay the most attention to this type of stimulation.
Bright colors and patterns
The time between childhood and taking on adult responsibilities.
Adolescence
This social change can become a struggle for people in late adulthood, as they transition into no longer having a full time job.
Retirement
This value or worth attached to oneself helps protect against the stresses and struggles of life.
Self-Esteem
The automatic and sequential process of development that results from genetic signals.
Maturation
Attachment style that results from caregiver being unresponsive and unreliable.
Insecure attachment
Parents
People ages 40-65 are in this period of adulthood.
Middle Adulthood
Stress, history of abuse, lack of attachment, and substance abuse are all potential causes for this mistreatment.
Child Abuse & Neglect
Critical period
The instinctual need to touch and be touched by something soft.
Contact Comfort
A turning point in a young person's development when they examine their values and make changes about decisions/life roles.
Identity Crisis
The process when young adults get a little older and reevaluate the decisions they've made.
Reassessment
The slang term for forming a new identity in middle adulthood.
Middlescence
This theory says development occurs in a predetermined sequence of steps that cannot be jumped or skipped.
Developmental Stages Theory
This is the ideal style of parenting.
Warm & Authoritative
The ideal identity status, where one has coped with crises, explored options, and is now committed to directions and decisions.
Identity Achievement
The ability to create, originate, and produce.
Generativity
A speech of fond remembrance for someone who has just died.
Eulogy
This theory says that we pick up knowledge and behaviors constantly from learning and observing, not in stages.
Developmental Continuity Theory
Skills that involve the coordination of small, intricate muscle groups.
Fine Motor Skills
This identity status involves delay in making commitments about important questions, as you need to explore/experiment to find direction.
Identity Moratorium
Theory that aging is the result of genetics; Heredity will determine the way you age.
Programmed Theories
This psychologist came up with a theory for how morals develop as children grow.
Kohlberg