Infancy and Childhood
A sequence of biological changes not influenced by experience.
What is maturation?
Begins outside the womb with our early experience for brain development.
What is nurture?
A person figuring out who they are by testing and integrating different kinds of roles in life.
What is identity?
During late adulthood, our ability to reason and be able to solve novel logic problems decreases.
What is fluid intelligence?
The inability to see a problem from a new perspective by employing a different mental set.
What is fixation?
This developmental stage, occurring roughly from birth to age 2, is marked by rapid growth, motor development, and the emergence of language.
What is infancy?
According to this psychological concept, children tent to imitate behaviors they observe in others, particularly authority figures.
What is social learning theory?
Coined by Erik Erikson, this term describes the psychosocial stage of development during adolescence, characterized by the search for personal identity.
What is identity versus role confusion?
This term refers to the psychological distress caused by going through a major life transition, such as leaving a long-term job or retiring.
What is midlife crisis?
They share a fetal environment, but are genetically no more similar than ordinary brothers and sisters.
What are fraternal twins?
The very first stage in prenatal development.
What is a zygote?
This parenting style leaves the children prepared, happy, and confident.
What is authoritative parenting?
The period of sexual maturation, during when a person becomes capable of reproducing.
What is puberty?
A woman's foremost biological sign of aging, which ends fertility and often changes her mood, usually around 50 years of age.
What is menopause?
The retina's area of central focus.
What is the fovea?
The preoperational child's difficulty taking another's perspective.
What is egocentrism?
The theory where we learn social behavior by observing and imitating.
What is social learning theory?
The stage in development in the teenage years between puberty and social indepence.
What is adolescence?
Having full independence and responsibility.
What is adulthood?
The way an issue is posed.
What is framing?
Infants commonly display fear of strangers.
What is stranger anxiety?
A spectrum disorder that makes communication with peers difficult.
What is autism?
This is commitment to an identity with little explorationn of alternatives.
What is foreclosure?
The cultural preference of the right time to get married or have children.
What is social clock?
Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking.
What is fetal alcohol syndrom?