Newborn infants exhibit these automatic, coordinated movement patterns that help them respond to the environment, such as grasping, rooting, moro, and sucking.
What are reflexes?
Theory developed by John Bowlby that bonds formed by children with caregivers are critical to establishing a sense of security and have lasting impact throughout one's lifetime.
Mental representations (conceptual frameworks) of the world that are used to make sense of the world.
What are schemas?
Psychologist who believed that children progress through psychosexual stages of development centered around pleasure-seeking activities. In each stage, a conflict must be resolved or else a child may develop fixations.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What is the last stage of prenatal development?
What is fetal?
By about 3 years old, toddlers reach this physical milestone.
What is climbing and running or pedaling a tricycle?
In this parenting style, parents are the bosses and do not explain decisions or demands to children.
What is authoritarian parenting?
The process by which an individual adjusts their schemas to fit new information.
What is accommodation?
Psychologist who proposed these stages of psychosocial development:
Who is Erik Erikson?
During Stage 1 of Kohlberg's theory, this is the main concern of individuals and the reason to obey rules.
What is avoiding punishment?
By about this age old, toddlers should be able to use these utensils.
What is fork and spoon ?
In this attachment style, children are comfortable with being close to or apart from their caregiver(s). They are not afraid of emotions and can have loving and warm relationships.
What is secure attachment?
The first stage of cognitive development, according to Piaget. During this stage individuals understand the world through their own senses and movements, and strive to achieve object permanance.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
In this stage of psychosocial development, teenagers confront questions such as Who am I?
What is Identity vs. Confusion?
During adolescence, these parts of the brain are still developing
What are frontal lobes?
By about 2 years old, children can speak in mostly ____ - word statements.
What is 2-4?
In this parenting style, parents set few rules or demands and often given into children.
What is permissive style parenting?
The final stage of cognitive development according to Piaget. Occurs around or after 12 years old when individuals can now think abstractly and use higher-order reasoning.
What is the Formal Operations stage?
Final stage of Erikson's theory of psychosocial development in which older adults consider their life choices and experiences.
What is Ego integrity vs. Despair?
In this adulthood stage, people will develop grey hairs and wrinkles and are focused on career advancement
What is middle adulthood?
The idea that certain skills and behaviors can only be learned within a specific window of time, such as language development.
What is a critical period?
This parenting style, in which parents discuss and negotiate with children to allow them a voice in decisions affecting their lives, is associated with children who are more likely to become happy and responsible adults who are independent.
What is authoritative (democratic) parenting?
The process by which an individual take in information that fits with what they already know
What is assimilation?
During this stage of psychosocial development, a sense of independence in many tasks develops
What is autonomy v. shame/doubt?
According to Ross, what are the five stages of grief?
What is are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance?