People
Vocab
Piaget's Stages of Life
Attachment
Parenting Styles
100

This man is known for his 4 stages of cognitive development.

Jean Piaget

100

The orderly sequence of growth by which a person develops over time, both physically and mentally.

Maturation

100

In this final stage, abstract reasoning develops and thought is more idealistic from ages 12 to adulthood.

Formal Operational

100

An emotional tie with other people.

Attachment

100

This a strict parenting style in which the parent can be cold, rejecting, and has high expectations for their child.

Authoritarian

200

This married duo are known for their experiment with baby monkeys and forming attachments.

Harry & Margaret Harlow

200

The thinking that occurs as we consider right from wrong.

Moral Reasoning

200

In this stage, babies learn about the world through their senses and motor activities.

Sensorimotor

200

A healthy attachment style in which individuals feel safe, comforted, and supported.

Secure Attachment

200

This parenting style is characterized by lack of responsiveness and shows little love or warmth to the child.

Uninvolved

300

This man proposed the Cupboard Theory and stated that infants become attached to those who provide the food supply.

Sigmund Freud

300

The sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy that is formed during infancy.

Basic Trust

300

In this stage, children ages 6/7 to 11 can think logically about concrete events and perform arithmetic operations.

Concrete Operational

300
Infants having a fear of strangers.

Stranger Anxiety

300

This parenting style is characterized as warm, attentive, and sensitive to a child's needs.

Authoritative

400

This man proposed 8 psychosocial stages of life.

Erik Erikson

400

The lacking of awareness that things continue to exist even when not seen.

Object Permanence

400

Imaginative play and the use of language from ages 2-6/7 are characteristics of this stage.

Preoperational

400

Process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.

Imprinting

400

This parenting style is characterized by low expectations and seeming more like a friend than a parent to a child.

Permissive

500

This man sought to describe the development of moral reasoning.

Lawrence Kohlberg

500

Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas.

Assimilation

500

This term describes the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view.

Egocentrism

500

A period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain experiences produce proper development.

Critical Period

500

Parents who are have this style of parenting tend to have confident, enthusiastic, and overall happier children.

Authoritative