Vocab 1
This term refers to an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.
What is a fetus?
This term describes a person’s characteristic nature or emotional excitability.
What is temperament?
A baby looks under the table for a ball that has just rolled underneath it, moving the tablecloth so it can see it again. According to Piaget, the baby is demonstrating the development of
What is object permanence?
A baby with brain damage and growth problems whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy most likely has this
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
Erik Erikson stated that one of the jobs of an adolescent is to solidify a sense of self by taking on different roles to see how it fits with them. This matches this term
What is identity?
These substances get to the fetus through the placenta and prevent normal development.
what are teratogens?
These are all mental activities associated with thinking and memory.
What is cognition?
Children between 6 and 11 years old that are now able to think about concrete events logically are in this stage
What is concrete operational stage?
This term refers to the time spanning from childhood to adulthood
What is adolescence?
Children of authoritative parents tend to be
What is independent?
This is the term for a fertilized egg.
what is a zygote?
This parenting style is characterized by allowing children to stay out as late as they want, setting no rules on their behavior, and never punishing them for negative behavior.
What is permissive parenting?
Piaget theorized that young children in the preoperational stage find it difficult to understand or think about other people’s feelings because of high levels of
What is egocentrism?
The first stage of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, from birth to about 2 years of age, where babies experience the world through senses and actions
what is the sensorimotor stage?
The simultaneous engagement of two or more individuals on the same object or event
What is joint attention?
These biological growth processes bring about orderly changes in behavior.
What is maturation?
This process involves specific animals forming attachments during a critical period early in their life, for example, staying very close to mom for safety and nourishment
What is imprinting?
This psychologist tested attachment by seeing if monkeys would prefer a comfortable cloth mother or a wire mother that held a bottle with milk
Who is Harry Harlow?
According to Jean Piaget, children start to become less egocentric at this stage
What is the concrete operational stage?
The tendency to apply a word to objects that are inappropriate for the word's meaning.
What is overextension in language development?
This is the baby's tendency, when their cheek is touched, to open their mouth and look for a food source.
What is the rooting reflex?
These are concepts or mental frameworks that organize categories and interpret information.
What are schemas?
Joey has discovered that liquid amounts remain the same when pouring them into different shaped glasses. This is an example of
What is conservation?
Henry is sitting in his freshman math class and is beginning to start to think logically about abstract concepts. Now the formulas he is learning about make sense because he is likely at this stage of Piaget’s stages
A child using the word "cat" only for their family pet and not for other cats
What is under extension in language development?