Child Psychology
The age range for infancy
What is 1 month-2 years?
Period of rapid physical and biological changes to competence, tension, frustration and feeling of insecurity.
What is adolescence?
The estimated age of "peak" physical condition.
What is 18-30?
A simple, automatic response to a sensory stimulus
What is Reflex?
Individual responsible for our psychosocial theory of development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Earliest Stage of Cognitive Development focused on experiencing the world through sensory stimulation.
What is the Sensorimotor Stage?
The physical aspect the symbolizes the end of adolescence.
What is the end of growth?
This stage of adulthood takes place from ages 23-40.
What is Middle Adulthood?
Our sense of self
Identity
Individual Responsible for our cognitive development theory.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Children base judgement (right or wrong) on potential consequences in this stage.
What is Preconventional Moral Reasoning?
the age at which an individual should have tripled their birth length.
What is 13?
Divorce is the second most stressful life event after this event.
What is the death of ones spouse?
The biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior-and is relatively uninfluenced by experience
What is Maturation?
Individual Responsible for our psychosexual development theory.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The "crisis" at stage 3 of psychosocial development known as the "locomotor" stage.
What is Initiative vs. Guilt?
Period of heightened emotions and gland production due to social pressure.
What is Emotional Development?
Aspect of adult development that men have no counterpart for.
What is menopause?
The name for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or parenting choices/environment is responsible for driving behavior
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
Individual Responsible for our moral development theory.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
The potential fixation at the latency stage of psychosexual development.
What is a lack of friends/peer relationships?
What we base judgement on in the Postconventional Moral Reasoning Stage.
What is we base judgment on one’s personal values, and not conventional standards?
An interdisciplinary field that studies the process of aging and the aging population, involves psychology, biology, sociology, and other fields.
What is Gerontology?
An optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development
What is Critical Period?
Collection of theories on adolescent psychology; ranging from a time of stress, to highly enjoyable, as well as developmental tasks. (3 Names)
Who are G. Stanley Hall, Margaret Mead, and Robert Havighurst?