Piaget's Cognitive Concepts
The stage where infants know the world through sensory impressions and motor activities.
Sensorimotor Stage
Agents, such as chemicals, that can cause harm to a fetus during prenatal development.
Teratogens
The stage where children begin to assert control and power over their environment
Initiative vs. Guilt Stage
The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
Social Clock
Crawling and walking are examples of which type of coordination?
Gross Motor Coordination
The inability to differentiate between self and other, or understand other perspectives.
Egocentrism
A laboratory device used for testing depth perception in infants.
Visual Cliff
A status of identity development where an individual has not yet experienced a crisis or made any commitments. Not Erikson's Stages
Identity Diffusion
A parenting style characterized by high demands and low responsiveness.
Authoritarian Parenting (or Parenting Styles)
The ability to make small, precise movements, typically involving the coordination of the hands and fingers with the eyes.
Fine Motor Coordination
The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
Object Permanence
An attachment style where individuals are often anxious about the stability of their relationships.
Anxious Attachment
The 5th stage (12-18 yrs) where adolescents explore their independence and develop a sense of self.
Identity vs. Role Confusion
The difference between what a learner can do alone versus what they can do with help.
Zone of Proximal Development
The debate regarding which traits persist through the lifespan and which change.
Stability and Change
The stage (age 12+) where people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
Formal Operational Stage
Patterns of interacting and behaving in relationships between infants and caregivers.
Attachment Styles
The 7th stage (40-65 yrs) focused on establishing careers, families, and a sense of being part of the bigger picture.
Generativity vs. Stagnation
A type of rule-governed sound unit used to combine into words.
phonemes
The debate in developmental psychology concerning the relative importance of genetics and environment in influencing behavior and mental processes is known by this phrase.
Nature and Nurture
The belief that one's behavior is the main focus of others' attention and concern.
Imaginary Audience (Adolescent Egocentrism)
An individual's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills that tend to increase with age.
crystalized intelligence
The final stage focused on reflecting back on life and either feeling satisfaction or regret.
Integrity vs. Despair
The tendency of a child to apply a newly learned word to objects that are outside of the word's actual definition.
Overgeneralization
When a baby is touched on the cheek, its tendency to turn toward the touch and open its mouth is known by this term.
Rooting Reflex