This famous developmental psychologist created the staged theory of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
This is the ability to reason and think abstractly, learn new things, and adapt to the environment
What is intelligence?
100
These are the first signs of meaning that children use
What are gestures?
100
The most widely used theory in research on personality, this theory is assessed by The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R)
What is the Big Five?
100
Children are able to reason abstractly at this stage of cognitive development
What is the formal operations stage?
200
Children are tied to their immediate present moment in this stage of cognitive development
What is the sensorimotor stage?
200
The average IQ of children around the world
What is 100?
200
The rules for the use of language in everyday life
What are language pragmatics?
200
This is the emotional substrate of personality that endures throughout the lifespan
What is temperament?
200
This psychologist theorized that there are 8 different kinds of intelligences
Who is Gardner?
300
This process involves either creating a new scheme or revising an old scheme
What is accommodation?
300
These two psychologists created the first intelligence test
Who is Binet and Simon?
300
Children learn their first word at about this age
What is one year?
300
This theory of personality posits that personality is an interaction between inborn drives and the responses of key people in the child’s social world
What is the psychoanalytic theory of personality?
300
This is typically the first use of grammar in young children
What is a holophrase?
400
This brings together the processes of assimilation and accommodation so children can make sense of the world
What is equilibration?
400
The ethnic group in the United States that has the highest IQ scores
What is Asian American?
400
The high-pitched, sing-songy voice that we all instinctively use to talk to young infants
What is infant-direct speech (or motherese)?
400
This personality trait is associated with the most positive outcomes throughout the lifespan
What is conscientiousness?
400
This kind of logic occurs in the concrete operations stage of cognitive development and involves creating general principles from particular experiences
What is inductive logic?
500
The understanding that the quantity of a substance remains
the same even when its appearance changes
What is conservation?
500
Scores on an IQ test are NOT associated with this phenomenon
What is psychological adjustment?
500
When a child misuses a word for an entire category of objects in multiple contexts
What is overextension?
500
An example of an interactionist approach, this theory proposed by Albert Bandura posits that cognitive factors, behavior, and environmental reinforcers all interact to create personality
What is reciprocal determinism?
500
This phase of language development is universal in all cultures around the world