Erikson
Theories/Models
Pre-/Infancy
Childhood
Misc. Terms
100
Erik son's theory on personality development.
What is Erikson's Psycho-Social Stages of Development?
100
People's ideas about their own and others mental state.
What is Theory of Mind?
100
The stage in prenatal development from 9 weeks to birth.
What is Fetus?
100
The stage in Piaget's theory where a child learns to communicate using symbols but does not demonstrate mental operations of concrete logic.
What is the Pre-operational Stage?
100
The awareness that things continue to exist even though they are not perceived, and develops around 6-8 months of age.
What is object permanence?
200
The 1st stage in Erikson's model, where infants must learn to view the world as predictable and safe or face a future of guarded skepticism.
What is Trust vs. Mistrust?
200
This person proposed the theory of cognitive development, called Social Development Theory, which emphasized the importance of other people in out mental growth.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
200
When an object is placed in the baby's mouth and the baby begins sucking on it.
What is a sucking reflex?
200
The inability of children between 2-7 years of age to take the perspective of another.
What is egocentrism?
200
Rigid, inflexible attachments demonstrated by some animal species.
What is imprinting?
300
The 4th stage of Erikson's model where children must master skills valued by their society or feel inferior.
What is Industry vs. Inferiority?
300
Jonathon Haidt believed that we make moral choices based on emotional reactions, not cold logic.
What is the Social Intuitionist Theory?
300
When stroked on the bottom of the foot, a baby will spread it's toes.
What is the Babinski Reflex?
300
The state in Piaget's theory where there children gain the mental operations that allow them to think logically about real or concrete events.
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
300
Researcher who described attachment styles in infants as measured by the "strange situation" test.
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
400
The 8th stage of Erikson's model where adults reflect on their life with a sense of satisfaction or experience despair.
What is Integrity vs. Despair?
400
This person is famous for his 4-stage model of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
400
The decreasing responsiveness to an unchanging stimulus, used to assess infant cognition.
What is Habituation?
400
The inability of preoperational children to group items according to rules or criteria.
What is Categorization Inability?
400
One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly, and decreases during late adulthood.
What is Fluid Intelligence?
500
The 5th Stage of Erikson's model where adolescents must develop a sense of identity or suffer a lack of direction.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
500
This person used moral dilemmas to assess moral thinking in children and described the levels of moral development.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
500
The infant starts response; when alarmed, the baby will fling his limbs outward, then retract them and hold them close by.
What is the Moro Reflex?
500
A belief that inanimate objects have thoughts and feelings.
What is Animism?
500
The stage of moral development wherein individuals seek to gain social approval or maintain the social order (Follow rules and laws).
What is the Conventional Stage?