Developmental Psychology Part One

Attachment

100

In first exploring the importance of attachment, Harlow experimented on what type of animal?

Monkeys 

200

Mary Ainsworth created an experiment involving naturalistic observation that led to the categorization of four main attachment styles. Name the experiment. 

The Strange Situation

300

In order to explain how babies from the same families might develop different attachment styles, developmentalists determined that infants can have this - a person's characteristic, inborn style of personality.

Temperament

400

Name Mary Ainsworth's four attachment styles

Secure, Avoidant, Anxious-Ambivalent, Disorganized 

500

This developmentalist, Ainsworth's teacher, determined that there is no such thing as "excessive motherly love" and that having a primary attachment figure is critical to development.

John Bowlby

Piaget

100

According to Piaget, children have a hard time with these - tasks that involve changing the shape of substances to see whether children can go beyond the way that substance visually appears. IE - flattening out playdoh

Conservation tasks

200

Early childhood can be difficult time to understand this - the idea that other's have different perspectives from your own

Egocentrism

300

An example would be, "My parents put those mountains there."

Artificialism

400

What are habits of the sensorimotor starting at around 4 months centered around exploring the external world (can I eat my toys).

Secondary Circular Reactions

500

This is substage 5 of the Sensorimotor Stage, also know as the "little scientist" stage

Tertiary Circular Reactions

Parenthood

100

If parents are concerned that their child is meeting various milestones, they can consult this website

CDC

200

Teenagers will long for this, though parents may have a difficult time giving it. 

Autonomy (also will take freedom or independence)

300

This parenting style is high on love/affection but low on boundaries, often creating kids who are confident but struggle in structured environments like school. 

Permissive

400

Parents might look for several clues that their child is ready to potty train. Name three

Interested in the potty, pretending to use the potty, can wait, asks to use, can stay dry through night or long periods, pull up/down their own pants, etc

500

To help develop language skills, parents may use this, commonly referred to as "baby talk"

Infant directed speech

Theories

100

In this age old debate, theorists weigh the balance between a person's genetic and biological influences vs their environment 

Nature vs Nurture

200

This theorist, a student of Freuds, created a theory of development based on stages that begin with birth and end with death. 

Erikson

300

One of the first in this school of thought, this physician was studying the effects of saliva on digestion by measuring salivation of dogs when exposed to meat but accidentally uncovered something important regarding behavior.

Pavlov

400

Piaget states that all humans process new information by either ____ or _____ , based on whether it matches or clashes with what we already have observed or believe

Assimilate or accommodate 

500

Bronfenbrenner's theory that suggests children are influenced by a layers of exposure to various personal and cultural influences. 

Developmental Systems Approach

Pre-Natal Development

100

This is the first stage of pregnancy

The Germinal Stage

200

There are three "support structures" supporting the fetus, name two of them. 

Amniotic Sac

Placenta

Umbilical cord

300

Radiation, lead, and antibotics are all this - a substance that crosses the placenta and could cause harm to the fetus. 

A Teratogen

400

In the second stage of fetal development, this "tube" develops, which will eventually turn into the spinal cord. 

The neural tube

500

At the time of birth, the cervix must do two things, equivalent to thinning and stretching

Effacement and dilation