Development Principles
Psychosocial Development
Family Dynamics
Parenting & Socialization
A La Carte
100

What principle states that a given quantity does not change when its appearance changes?  

What is Conservation?

100

Who studied children's psychosocial development?

Who is Erik Erikson?

100

If Jeremy begs for a new electronic gadget, his parents nearly always buy it for him. What type of family is this?

What is permissive?

100

A parenting style that is strict, punitive, and demands obedience without explanation. 

What is authoritarian?

100

According to Erikson, this is the main psychosocial conflict during the first year of life.  

What is trust vs. mistrust?

200

What process involves trying to fit a new object into a schema?

What is Assimilation?

200

What developmental stage focuses on avoiding punishment?

What is the Pre-conventional stage?

200

What is the importance of imprinting for survival, according to Konrad Lorenz?

What is Instinctive behavior?

200

A parenting style that is high in warmth but low in structure, placing few rules on children. 

What is permissive?

200

The deep, affectionate, and enduring relationship between a child and their primary caregiver.

What is attachment?

300

helps an infant obtain milk

What is the rooting reflex?

300

The term for pretending to be someone else?

What is Role taking?

300

An infant who has developed object permanence

knows that an object, such as a rattle, exists even if it is not in view.

300

The process of learning the rules of behavior of one's culture.

What is socialization?

300

A time in development when specifi c skills or abilities are most easily learned is called the

What is critical period?

400

What causes an infant to wrap fingers around objects?

What is a Grasping reflex?

400

The stage allows a child to begin to imagine events outside their own life?

What is the Concrete operations stage?

400

According to Erik Erikson, what do we face throughout our development?

Crises

400

A parenting style that is both high in warmth and structure, setting rules but explaining the reasons behind them.

What is authoritative/democratic?

400

Psychologists call the internally programmed growth of a child

What is maturation?

500

What process redirects sexual impulses to learning tasks?

What is Sublimation?

500

In Kohlberg's stages, how must one change views to move from "law and order" to "social contract"?

What is they must consider fairness over legality

500

What parenting style is likely to create secure, self-confident children?

What is Authoritative?

500

The form of play, common in toddlers, where they play side-by-side but not directly with each other.  

What is parallel play?

500

A young child enjoys touching fl owers because they are pretty. One day the child’s fi nger is pricked by the thorn on a rose. The child learns that not all fl owers should be touched. This is the process of

What is accommodation?