Developmental Milestones
Attachment & Parenting
Piaget & Vygotsky
Freud & Erikson's Stages
Mixing it up
100

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?

100

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.

What is attachment theory?
100

Mental representations (conceptual frameworks) of the world that are used to make sense of the world.

What are schemas?

100

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?

100

What is the last stage of prenatal development?

What is fetal?

200

By about 3 years old, toddlers reach this physical milestone.

What is climbing and running or pedaling a tricycle?

200

In this parenting style, parents are the bosses and do not explain decisions or demands to children.

What is authoritarian parenting?

200

The process by which an individual adjusts their schemas to fit new information.

What is accommodation?

200

Psychologist who proposed these stages of psychosocial development:

Who is Erik Erikson?

200

During Stage 1 of Kohlberg's theory, this is the main concern of individuals and the reason to obey rules.

What is avoiding punishment?

300

By about this age old, toddlers should be able to use these utensils.


What is fork and spoon ?

300

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?

300

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?

300

In this stage of psychosocial development, teenagers confront questions such as Who am I?

What is Identity vs. Confusion?

300

During adolescence, these parts of the brain are still developing

What are frontal lobes?

400

By about 2 years old, children can speak in mostly ____ - word statements.

What is 2-4?

400

In this parenting style, parents set few rules or demands and often given into children. 

What is permissive style parenting?

400

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?

400

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?

400

In this adulthood stage, people will develop grey hairs and wrinkles and are focused on career advancement

What is middle adulthood?

500

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?

500

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?

500

The process by which an individual take in information that fits with what they already know

What is assimilation?

500

During this stage of psychosocial development, a sense of independence in many tasks develops

What is autonomy v. shame/doubt?

500

According to Ross, what are the five stages of grief?

What is are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance?