Parenting
The parenting style that uses harsh discipline and demands obedience is which one?
Authoritarian
What are characteristics that are genetically transferred from parents to their offspring called?
Heredity
What is another word for emotional excitability?
Temperament
What are the 3 major issues explored in developmental psychology?
Nature and nurture, stability and change, and continuity and stages
Is a term used to describe the use of another person’s emotional reaction to interpret an ambiguous situation.
What is “social referencing?”
Parents who are neither demanding nor responsive are exhibiting what parenting style?
Negligent
How many chromosomes are in a human sperm cell?
23
What develops in infants around 8 months, where they react to newcomers with tears and distress?
Stranger anxiety
_______ is the process of making judgments about the rightness or wrongness of specific acts
What is Moral reasoning
Is a “disappearing reflex” that can be elicited by holding a newborn under the arms so that his or her feet touch the surface.
What is the “stepping reflex?
Authoritative parents have children who have what qualities?
High self-esteem, self-reliant
What type of twins develop from separate fertilized eggs?
fraternal
What is a person’s understanding and awareness of who you are?
Self-concept
Piaget observed that infants younger than 8 months of age do not search for objects they cannot see, leading him to formulate this concept.
What is “object permanence?”
parents began to put their babies to sleep on their backs to reduce the risk of____
SIDS?
The parenting style where parents exercise little control over their children and allow them to do whatever they want is which one?
Permissive
What is the period of sexual maturation where a person becomes capable of reproducing?
Puberty
Popular, rejected, and neglected are the three groups children classify by what variable?
What is Social Status
Is the error phenomenon that has forced developmental psychologists to think critically about how babies think.
What is the “A-Not-B error”?
According to Freud, the stage of childhod in which sexual needs are quiet and in which psychic energy was put into school work and sports
Latency
What is the parenting style where parents are demanding, yet sensitively responsive to their children?
Authoritative
Researchers suggest that handedness is likely the result of ______ inheritance
What is Genetic
These behaviors are innate, fixed patterns of action that occur in response to particular stimulation
What are “reflexes?”
Place these stages in the correct chronological order:
A. Industry vs Inferiority B. Generatively vs Stagnation C. Autonomy vs Shame, Doubt D. Basic Trust vs Mistrust E. Identity vs Role Confusion F. Integrity vs Despair G. Intimacy vs Isolation H. Initiative vs Guilt
D. Basic Trust vs Mistrust C. Autonomy vs Shame, Doubt H. Initiative vs Guilt A. Industry vs Inferiority E. Identity vs Role Confusion G. Intimacy vs Isolation B. Generatively vs Stagnation F. Integrity vs Despair
a relationship in which an infant obtains both comfort and confidence from the presence of one's caregiver. Majority of children fall into this category
What is Secure attachment