Piaget
This is Piaget's stage where infants learn through sensory experience and motor actions.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
A baby cries when their caregiver leaves, but is easily soothed upon the caregivers return.
What is secure attachment?
This debate asks if development is shaped more by genes or by environment.
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
The first two weeks after conception make up this stage.
This stage is where a child starts to develop a feeling of trust for their caregiver.
What is Trust vs Mistrust?
Children in this stage can use symbols and language, but their thinking is still pretty egocentric.
What is the preoperational stage?
A child avoids or ignores their caregiver after a short separation and shows little distress.
What is avoidant attachment?
These psychologists studied how behavior is learned through rewards, punishments, and conditioning.
Who are Watson, Skinner, and Palov?
This organ connects the fetus to the mother for nutrients and oxygen.
What is the placenta?
This is the stage where toddlers practice independence and control over themselves.
What is Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt?
This term is used to describe a child's understanding that something does still exist even when they aren't able to see it.
An infant displays extreme distress upon being separated from the caregiver, yet is not able to be calmed when the caregiver returns.
What is anxious-ambivalent attachment?
There are multiple principles of personality that Freud says influence the mind.
The term for substances like alcohol, drugs, and infections that can cause harm to the fetus development.
What are teratogens?
An adolescent starts to explore personal values and asks "Who am I?"
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
In this stage, children are able to think logically about real, tangible things, but still struggle with abstract ideas.
What is the concrete operational stage?
A child displays fear and behaves in a contradictory way towards the caregiver.
What is disorganized attachment?
This theory emphasizes that human development occurs within interacting systems.
What is Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory?
The stage that the fetus heart starts to beat and organs form.
What is the embryonic stage?
An adult develops an interest in guiding the next generation.
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?
What is the formal operational stage?
An adult who desires intimacy, yet also fears it as they often alternate between wanting closeness and withdrawing when stressed.
What is fearful-avoidant attachment?
This theory connects each stage of life to key psychosocial challenge that influences adult personality.
What is Erikson's psychosocial theory?
The condition that is caused by a 21st chromosome.
What is Down syndrome?
This stage is where an elderly adult starts to reflect on their life and either feels satisfaction or regret.
What is Integrity vs. Despair?