Physical development
What is it called when the brain removes synaptic connections that are not used?
Pruning
All infants have a fundamental need to form_____
Strong connections/attachment
What is a schema?
Mental representation of knowledge
What Piaget stage of development is taken advantage of by parents so that they can play peekaboo with their infant.
Sensorimotor
Infancy (0-1 year)
Trust vs. mistrust
What is one technique that parents can use to help their child develop cognitively?
Serve-and-return play
What is separation anxiety?
In what stage of Piaget's theory is object permanence achieved?
Sensorimotor
When Aroura hears the word forest, she thinks of green. What is green in this scenario?
A schema
Old age (65+ years)
Integrity vs. Despair
Besides pruning, what is the other characteristic of brain development in children and infants?
Formation of synaptic connections
What are the three attachment styles
Secure
Avoident
Ambivalent
What is meant by how is a schema assimilated/accomodated
incorporating new information or adapting a new schema
Jordan is three years old. When in the car with his mom he sees a plane in the sky. He joyously screams out "BIRD!". His mother then points out the birds must have feathers. What does Jordan do with this new information.
Assimilates feathers into his bird schema
Adolescence (12-18 years)
Identity vs. Confusion
Why infants naturally grab things put in their hands?
Grasping reflex
Play Age (3-6 years)
Initiative vs. Guilt
In what stage of Piaget's theory can a child classify objects by several features and can order them.
Concrete Operational
Elizabeth sorts all her toys by shape. When her father asks her to shape them by color too. She only sort them by color and the shapes become mixed. What Piaget stage is she in?
Preoperational
Early Childhood (1-3 years)
Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt
In nature vs Nurture which is related to biology
Nature
Early Adulthood (19-29 year)
Intimacy vs. Isolation
In what stage is thinking egocentric?
Preoperational stage
Joey is posed with the hypothetical: You are a doctor in a hospital waiting room. In come 6 people who were in a freak accident, 5 are in critical condition. 1 is brain dead with no hope of recovery but his body is totally healthy. You, as the doctor, can save all 5 critical condition patients by transplanting the sixths organs into them. Joey decides that he wouldnt do that as a doctor. What Piaget stage is Joey in?
Formal Operational Stage
Middle Age (30-64 years)
(School Age (7-11 years))
Generativity vs. Stagnation
(Industry vs. Inferiority)