Infancy
Involves changing existing mental structures to explain new experiences
What is accommodation?
The biological growth process that enable orderly changes in behavior
What is maturation?
Psychoanalytical psychologist who studied attachment theory
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
Psychologist who proposed a very influential theory stating that events in early childhood leave a permanent stamp on adult personality
Who is Erik Erikson?
Branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders
What is clinical psychology?
All the name of Jean Piaget's stages of development (in order)
What are: 1) sensorimotor stage, 2) preoperational stage, 3) concrete operational stage, 4) formal operational stage
The inability to envision reversing an action
What is irreversibility?
The pattern of attachment where most infants become upset when the mother leaves and are quickly calmed by her return
What is secure attachment?
The inborn rudiments of personality, especially emotional excitability (also effects the quality of parent-child attachment)
What is temperament?
Psychologist couple that studied attachment in an experiment with infant primates
Who are Harry and Margaret Harlow?
All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is cognition?
Notable feature of egocentrism where the infant hold the belief that all things are living
What is animism?
The person or people responsible for the maturation and bonding of an infant
Who are parent(s)?
According to Erikson, this [thing] is shaped by how individuals deal with psychological crisis
What is personality?
Perspective of psychology that studies how the body and brain work to create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
What is neuroscience?
Principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects
What is conservation?
The 3 flaws of Piaget's preoperational stage
What are irreversibility, egocentrism, and centration?
What is avoidant attachment?
The order of Erikson's first four stages
What are: 1) Trust vs. Mistrust, 2) Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt, 3) Initiative vs. Guilt, 4) Industry vs. Inferiority
The 4th type of attachment that came after Ainsworth's theory
What is disorganized attachment?
In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
What is Concrete Operational Stage?
Studied children's thinking and his 4 stage theory has dominated the investigation of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget?
Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment and Avoidant Attachment are also known as what
What is insecure attachment?
The order of Erikson's last four stages
What are: 5) Identity vs. Confusion, 6) Intimacy vs. Isolation, 7) Generativity vs. Self-Absorption, 8) Integrity vs. Despair
Format style used in all psychology related articles, journals, etc.
What is American Psychological Association (APA)?