Mostly Biological
A period of rapid physical growth involving hormonal and bodily Changes including sexual maturation.
What is Puberty?
The Developmental Psychologist associated with the Theory of Cognitive Development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is Schema?
Physical development and mental development can be encouraged and discouraged depending on these two types of environment children can be given.
What is Deprivation and Enrichment?
Erikson characterized personality development in middle age using this stage
What is Generativity vs stagnation ?
Puts objects in containers. Uses fingers to poke
What is 9 months of age?
The process where people use existing mental patterns in new situations.
What is assimilation?
The 3 main phases of Kohlberg's theory of moral development.
What are preconventional, conventional, and postconventional?
Infant's understanding that objects or people continue to exist even when they cannot be directly seen, heard, or touched.
What is object Permanence?
This is the study of Aging
What is Gerontology?
An infant typically exhibits separation anxiety at this stage
What is 6- 8 months age?
Using existing ideas and changing them to fit new situations and requirements.
What is Accommodation?
This Psychologist created what he believed to be the three stages of moral development to determine how people acquire their moral values.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
Name all four of Piaget's stages in order.
What is sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational?
According to Erkison, a person in late adulthood is said to be in this stage of psychosocial development.
What is Ego integrity Vs Despair?
These are a number of innate reflexes that babies have and are not taught to them but are natural. There are 4.
What are Moro, Rooting, Grasp and Sucking Reflexes?
At this stage children have a difficult time understanding that an object is still in existence even when it is out of sight.
What is sensorimotor stage?
According to Erikson, this stage of a person's life is when they will seek out many new skills and actions where they will fall, spill and often mess up the end goal and it is very important for the parent to encourage them
What is shame vs doubt?
The largely hereditary characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity of an individual.
What is Temperament?
This is the prejudice that people have against people who are older
What is Ageism
A child who can stand on one foot, plays simple games and understands physical relationships (on, in) is in this stage described by Piaget
What is preoperational Stage ?
Period of cognitive development between ages 7 and 12, characterized by use of logic
What is Concrete Operational Stage
The Developmental Psychologist associated with the Zone of Proximal Development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
An infant is likely to be anxious in the presence of the mother, protest when she leaves, and not be comforted when she returns if the child and parent share this attachment style.
What is anxious - ambivalent attachment?
The developmental phenomena of object permanence and stranger anxiety occur during this stage of cognitive development.
What is sensorimotor stage?