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In Utero
The children
Developmental Psychology
Cognitive develop. stages
Social and Moral
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This is the percentage of things the pregnant mother exposes her unborn child to while pregnant. This includes everything she breathes to everything she eats.
What is 100% (everything)
100
This is the name of the natural reflex that all children are born with wherein the baby will turn its head toward anything that strokes its cheek.
What is the rooting reflex?
100
This is the name of the famous Swiss developmental and cognitive psychologist who developed a stage theory of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
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This is the first stage in Piaget's cognitive stage theory where children in this stage learn the world around them by touching, feeling, tasting, hearing, smelling, and seeing.
What is the Sensorimotor stage?
100
Children displaying this type of attachment explore their environment happily in the presence of their mothers. When the mother leaves, they show distress.
What is a secure attachment?
200

This drug administered to over 20,000 women in the 1950s for pregnant women experiencing morning sickness wound up leading to birth defects such as shortened limbs. Think, Billy Joel song, "We didn't start the fire".

What is Thalidomide?

200
This is the name of the natural reflex that all children are born with where a baby will try to squeeze anything that is placed in their hand.
What is the Palmer Grasp Reflex?
200
This is the name for the mental molds in which we pour our experiences, or how we understand the world.
What are schemas?
200
This stage of Piaget's cognitive developmental stage theory is hallmarked by children who are dominated by ego- centrism and are unable to understand the laws of conservation.
What is the Preoperational Stage
200
This is a very rapid bonding process often displayed by animals such as goslings.
What is imprinting?
300
This thing forms a connection between the pregnant mother and the fetus.
What is the placenta?
300
This is the name of the natural reflex that all children are born with where the baby will spread its arms suddenly in response to the sensation of being dropped.
What is the Moro Reflex?
300
This is the process of incorporating new experiences into our current understanding.
What is assimilation?
300
People in this stage of Piaget's cognitive development stage theory are able to think and reason abstractly as well as use symbols and imagined realities.
What is the Formal Operational Stage
300

The name given for the feeling children experience when their parents leave them, that peaks at around 13 months, then gradually declines.

What is separation anxiety?

400
These are chemicals or viruses that can enter the placenta and harm the developing fetus.
What are Teratogens?
400
This is the name of the sleeping position that pediatricians recommend placing your child in (technical name)to help prevent SIDS.
What is the Supine position?
400
This is the process of adjusting our current understanding of the world and modifying it.
What is accommodation?
400
Someone in this stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory become able to view the world from someone's perspective and are also able to perform reversibility.
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
400

In Piaget's cognitive development theory, the preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view is called this term.

What is egocentrism?

500
These are two of the facial abnormalities often visible on a child born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
What are small head, low nose bridge, Eye folds, small eye openings, short nose, flat face, smooth philtrum, thin upper lip, underdeveloped jaw
500
This is the process where various bodily and mental functions occur in sequence such as standing before walking, babbling before talking, etc.
What is maturation?
500
Piaget believed that this is how children learn or how their cognitive development is shaped.
What are by making mistakes/errors?
500
A criticism to this stage of Piaget's cognitive stage theory is that children's thinking begins earlier than Piaget proposed as evidenced by the following statement - If John is in school, Mary is in school. John is in school. What can you say about Mary?
What is the Formal Operational Stage criticism?
500

The young child's belief that everything that exists has some kind of consciousness or awareness.

What is Animism?