Fetal Development
Infancy
Cognitive Development
Vocab
Mystery ?
100

The age at which the brain if fully developed

What is 25 years old?

100

2 automatic reflexes that babies have at birth

What is grasping and rooting?

100

Mental representations of the world around us

What is a schema?

100

The idea that the world revolves around you

What is egocentric?

100

The strictest parenting style in which parents make all decisions

What is authoritarian parenting?

200

The stage of pregnancy in which brain development begins

What is week 3?

200

Things that infants prefer to look at according to Robert Fantz.

What is human faces and patterned materials?

200
Believed that intelligence develops gradually and that children think differently at certain stages of growth

What is Jean Piaget?

200

Internally programmed growth

What is maturation?

200

When we change our schema to fit the characteristics of a new thing/idea

What is accommodation?

300

The 3 stages of pregnancy

What is Germinal, Embryonic, and Fetal?

300

The name of the experiment used to test depth perception in infants

What is the Visual Cliff Experiment?

300
The 3 steps in language development

What is learn to make the signs, learn the meaning of the signs, and learn grammar?

300

The understanding that an object continues to exist even when it cannot be seen or touched

What is object permanence?

300

The understanding that a given quantity does not change when its appearance has changed

What is the principle of conversion?

400

The stage of pregnancy in which the baby's heart begins to beat

What is the embryonic stage?

400

The age that infants generally begin to crawl

What is 8-10 months?

400

The 4 stages of Piaget's model of cognitive development

What is sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational?

400

The ability to perceive the distance of things

What is depth perception?

400

The 4 types of attachment styles

What is secure, avoidant, resistant, and disorganized?

500

The neural plate evolves into the neural tube, which consists of these anatomical parts

What is the brain and spinal cord?

500

The ability of a child to picture something in his or her mind

What is representational thought?

500

When we try to fit new ideas into our schema

What is assimilation?

500

A form of speech used by young children where they leave out words but still convey meaning

What is telegraphic speech?

500

A deep, caring, close, and enduring emotional bond between an infant and caregiver

What is attachment?