A style of speech that characterizes much of the verbal communication directed toward infants.
What is infant directed speech?
100
A style of attachment in which children use their mother as a kind of home base an are at ease when she is present; when she leaves, they become upset.
What is a secure attachment?
100
A score that takes into account a student's mental and chronological age.
What is intelligence quotient (IQ)?
100
A type of temperament in which the baby has a positive disposition and are adaptable.
What is an easy temperament?
100
According to Erickson, adolescents seek to determine what is unique and distinctive about themselves.
What is identity vs. identity confusion?
200
One-word utterances that depend on the particular context in which they are used to determine meaning.
What are holophrases?
200
Harry Harlow believed this to be the basis of attachment and developing an emotional bond?
What is contact comfort?
200
Intelligence that reflects information processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory.
What fluid intelligence?
200
The notion that development is dependent on the degree of match between children's temperaments and the nature and demands of the environment in which they are being raised.
What is "goodness of fit"?
200
Proposed that a genetically determined, innate mechanism directions language.
Who is Chomsky?
300
The smallest language unit that has meaning.
What are morphemes?
300
The distress displayed by infants when a customary care provider departs.
What is separation anxiety?
300
According to Sternberg, intelligence that is learned primarily observing others and modeling their behavior "street smarts."
What is practical intelligence?
300
A pattern of arousal and emotionality that are consistent and enduring characteristics of an individual.
What is temperament?
300
An integration of all students into regular classes and all other aspects of school and community life.
What is inclusion?
400
The process in which new words are associated with their meaning after only a brief encounter.
What is fast-mapping?
400
A style of attachment in which children show a inconsistent, often contradictory behavior.
What is disorganized-disoriented attachment pattern?
400
A test designed to predict a person's ability in a particular area or line of work.
What is an aptitude test?
400
The capability to adjust one's emotions to a desired state and level of intensity.
What is emotional regulation?
400
An understanding of one's own use of language.
What is metalinguistic awareness?
500
The aspect of language relating to communicating effectively and appropriately with others.
What is pragmatics?
500
A style of attachment in which children display a combination of positive and negative reactions to their mothers after reuniting.
What is ambivalent attachment?
500
An intelligence test that consists if a series of items that vary according to the age of the person being tested.
What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence test?
500
Erickson's theory that considers how individuals come to understand themselves and the meaning of others and their own behavior.
What is psychosocial development?
500
An overall developmental score that relates to performance in motor skills, language use, adaptive behavior, and personal-social abilities.