Human Development
What is developmental psychology?
The study of how behavior changes over a lifespan
Children show little distress when caregivers leave and minimal reaction upon their return.
Insecure-avoidant attachment
People's typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Personality
In freud's psychoanalytic theory, the sense of morality
superego
What is the differences between sets of people who lived during different periods called?
cohort effect
Children exhibit panic when caregivers leave and mixed emotions upon their return.
Insecure-anxious attachment
Relatively enduring predispositions that influence behavior across many situations.
Traits
A feeling of low self-esteem that leads to overcompensation attempts for superiority.
inferiority complex
What is a zygote?
A zygote is formed when a sperm cell fertilizes an egg.
Children display inconsistent responses to caregiver departures and returns.
Disorganized attachment
Psychic determinism, symbolic meaning, and unconscious motivation are part of
Freud's psychoanalytic theory
A shared storehouse of memories passed down through ancestors.
Jung's collective unconscious
Major organs are established, and the fetus continues to mature until birth during the ____ period
fetal
The idea that physical comfort and reassurance are crucial for developing attachment, as shown in Harlow's studies.
Contact comfort
In freud's psychoanalytic theory, having to do with basic impulses
the id
The core motive in personality, where individuals strive to realize their full potential.
Self-actualizing theory
A stage theory proposing that cognitive development occurs in stages with domain-general skills.
Piaget's Theory Of Development
The child is upset when the parent leaves and is comforted upon the parent's return
secure attachment
in freud's psychoanalytic theory, is the principal decision maker
ego
What are the Big Five traits of personality?
Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.