Two types of twins
What are monozygotic and dizygotic?
Organized ways of making sense of experience
What are schemes?
Copying another's behavior
What is imitation?
Erikson's first stage of development
What is basic trust v. mistrust?
What is experimental research?
Least developed sense at birth
What is vision?
Theorist associated with the Zone of Proximal Development
Use of thumb and index finger
What is the pincer grasp?
Easy child, difficult child, slow-to-warm-up child
What are the styles of temperament?
Creating an environment specific to a child's natural temperament, encouraging adaptive functioning
What is goodness of fit model?
Assessment used to determine newborn's physical condition at 1 and 5 minutes
What is the APGAR scale?
In Piaget's theory, creating a new schema
What is the accomodation?
Specialization of the two hemispheres
What is lateralization?
Lab technique for assessing the quality of attachment between 1 and 2 years of age
What is the strange situation?
Individuals differ in their responses to qualities of the environment due to their genetic makeup
What is the gene-environment interaction?
Any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period
What is a teratogen?
Theory that says information flows through the sensory register, short-term memory, and then long term memory
What is information processing?
Gradual reduction in the strength of a response due to repetitive stimulation
What is habituation?
Baby is unresponsive to parent/slow to greet upon reunion
What is insecure-avoidant attachment?
What is the gene-environment correlation?
Three phases in prenatal development
What are the germinal, embryo, and fetus phases?
Piaget's stage of cognitive development (0-2)
What is the sensorimotor stage?
Age at which a child can be expected to walk
What is 10-12 months?
Fowler's first stage of faith
What is the primal or undifferentiated faith?
Theorist who developed the bioecological systems theory
Who is Bronfenbrenner?