Developmentalists
The developmental theorist who included the Zone of Proximal Development in their theory.
Who is Vygotsky?
An invasive procedure that involves aspirating amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman's uterus to evaluate genetic wellbeing of the infant.
What is an amniocentesis?
The motor skills used by an infant to grasp a rattle.
What are fine motor skills?
The type of parenting style demonstrated by parents who show little interest in their children and may be lax or inconsistent with feedback to the child.
What is Laissez-Faire parenting?
Erickson's stage for a typical 8 year old.
What is Industry vs inferiority?
Erickson's first stage of development
What is Trust vs Mistrust?
The longest stage of labor.
What is the first stage?
Malnutrition during the first year where infants stop growing.
What is marasmus?
Simple repetitive play that may involve objects.
What is functional play?
Piaget's cognitive stage assumes middle childhood represents this stage of development.
What is Concrete Operational?
Type of developmentalist who looks at functions of the brain which include things such as language development.
What is Cognitive Developmentalist?
The stage of labor where the baby has completely left the mother's body.
What is the 2nd stage?
What an infant has developed who continues to search for a hidden object.
What is Object permanence?
When a child's thinking does not take into account the viewpoints of others, this is referred to as what?
What is egocentric thought?
A child who understands that a glass of liquid poured into a different glass still has the same amount of liquid has achieved what cognitive milestone.
What is conservation?
A theorist who created a psychoanalytic theory based on psychosexual stages, personal experiences, and unconscious thought.
Who is Freud?
Nurture is to the environment as nature is to_____.
What is genetics?
Ainsworth's strange situation was designed to measure what concept of infancy?
What is attachment?
According to Piaget, preschoolers are in this stage of cognitive development.
What is preoperational?
The IQ test that measures 8 distinct intelligences including musical, bodily, kinesthetic, etc).
What is the Gardner IQ test?
The theorist that studies Moral reasoning.
Who is Kohlberg?
The scale used to measure the immediate health and well-being of a newly born infant.
What is the APGAR? (Appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respirations)
Pattern of growth that begins with the head and upper body.
What is cephalocaudal?
Type of place where children play with similar toys but do not interact with each other.
What is parallel play?
The process of concentrating on one limited aspect of a stimulus.
What is centration?