Development 1
This part of the brain does not develop fully until age 25.
Frontal lobe and/or cerebellum
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
Teratogens
Proposed four stages of cognitive development.
Jean Piaget
This term in operant conditioning will always result in a decrease of the desired behavior.
Punishment
This schedule reinforces a desired behavior some of the time in no apparent pattern.
Partial (intermittent) Schedule
An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development.
Critical period
Researches often observe what young infants spend their time paying attention to, in order to differentiate between what is familiar, and what is novel.
Habituation
Proposed that individuals progress through three levels (six stages) of moral reasoning.
Lawrence Kohlberg
A biological limitation, this idea focuses on how certain foods may be favored over harmful foods without the process of conditioning needing to take place.
Taste aversion
Positive, constructive, helpful behavior learned through observation.
Prosocial effects
The three steps of prenatal development. [In order]
Zygote, embryo, fetus
Developmental stage characterized by egocentrism and language development.
Preoperational stage
His studies of infant monkeys showed the importance of contact comfort in forming attachments.
Harry Harlow
If Beth gets in a car crash that results in her being conditioned to fear the specific location of the accident, what role does the accident play in classical conditioning?
Unconditioned stimulus
A type of reinforcement schedule. When reinforcing or punishing a behavior, we utilize it every time the desired or undesired behavior occurs.
Continuous reinforcement schedule
The range of tasks a child cannot yet master alone, but that she or he can accomplish with the guidance of a more capable partner.
Zone of proximal development
A person's inborn characteristic influencing their emotional reactivity and intensity.
Temperament
Conducted "A Strange Experiment" to study infant-mother attachment patterns.
Mary Ainsworth
If a dog is classically conditioned to salivate to the sound of the bell, and we remove that stimulus from the equation, what will eventually happen to the dog's conditioned response?
Extinction
A cognitive limitation, sometimes learning was demonstrated until after an incentive was given to the test subject. This term describes this phenomenon.
Latent learning
Kohlberg's stage of moral development where someone upholds laws or social rules simply because they are the laws and rules.
Conventional morality
Older adult's intelligence which specializes in a large body of factual and experienced information.
Crystallized intelligence
Studied the three parenting styles and their outcomes on children's personality development.
Diana Baumrind
In operant conditioning, the process of a test subject getting closer and closer to the desired behavior each time they are reinforced or punished.
Shaping
This famous psychologist produced the "Bobo the Clown experiment" to measure the effects of observational learning and violence in young children.
Albert Bandura