Physical Development
Theories of Cognitive Development
Theories of Social and Emotional Development
Gender, Sexuality, Adulthood and Aging
Key Figures
100
___ is the major period of rapid change in physical appearance during adolescence.
Puberty
100

Most adolescents can ponder and debate human nature, good and evil, truth and justice, due to the emergence of this Piaget stage

Formal Operational

100
The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.
Imprinting
100
One's sense of being a man or woman.
Gender identity
100
Person who developed four stages of cognitive development
Jean Piaget
200
This parts of the brain does not develop fully until age 25
Frontal Lobes and/or cerebellum
200
Term used to describe process of interpreting one's new experiences in terms of one's existing schemas.
Assimilation
200

A sense that the world is predictable and needs will be met.

Trust!

200
Our physical abilities--muscular strength, reaction time, sensory keenness, and cardiac output--reach their height by this age range.
Mid 20s
200
Person who identified three stages of morality.
Lawrence Kohlberg
300
An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development.
Critical Period
300
Developmental stage characterized by egocentrism and language development.
Preoperational stage
300
Erikson's stage where middle aged adults struggle to determine what their contribution to the world is.
Stagnation vs. Generativity
300
Parenting style best exemplified by setting rules, but making sure to explain the purpose of the rules.
Authoritative
300
This person conducted experiments to test attachment in infant monkeys.
Harry Harlow
400
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
Teratogens
400
Developmental stage characterized by understanding conservation and mathematical transformations (such as reversibility).
concrete operational stage
400
A person's inborn characteristic influencing their emotional reactivity and intensity.
Temperament
400
In this type of study, researchers follow a group of subjects for several years
Longitudinal
400
Psychologist that used 7 stages to define social development.
Eric Erikson
500
The three steps of prenatal development- in order.
zygote, embryo, fetus
500
The range of tasks a child cannot yet master alone, but that she or he can accomplish with the guidance of a more capable partner.
Zone of proximal development
500
Kohlberg's stage of moral development where someone upholds laws or social rules simply because they are the laws and rules.
Conventional Morality
500
Older adult's intelligence which specializes in a large body of factual and experienced information
Crystallized Intelligence
500
DAILY DOUBLE This psychologist is best known for their contributions to research on eye witness testimony, specifically the 'misinformation effect.'
Elizabeth Loftus
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