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Cognitive Development
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Psychosocial Stages
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The complete set of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes experienced by a person during the course of a lifetime
What is Human Development
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In her famous body of work on attachment, Mary Ainsworth found that the majority of infants demonstrated _______ attachment when tested with her strange situation test
What is secure.
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The mental processes people use to make observations, solve problems, and communicate their ideas
What is Cognitive development
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The process of creating a new scheme or changing an existing scheme to make room for a new situation or experience
What is accommodation
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Erickson’s psychosocial stage of development that is described when a child develops an attachment to a caregiver
What is Trust versus mistrust
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How genetic makeup and the environment affect a person’s potential
What is the Nature vs Nurture debate
200
In his research on cognitive development, Jean Piaget found that if a child knew that the amount of liquid in two containers were the same regardless of the shape of the containers (e.g., if one was short and fat; the other was tall and thin, but they both had the same amount of liquid in them), then the child accomplished the cognitive task of:
What is conservation.
200
The stage of development from age 2-7 that is marked by egocentrism and improved use of symbolic thought
What is the Preoperational stage
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This reflex occurs when an infant has its cheek stroked, the infant will turn its head toward the side that is being stroked, and begin to suckle, thus increasing the infant's chance of obtaining the mother's nipple.
What is the Rooting reflex
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Erickson’s psychosocial stage of development that is described as a stage in which people learn to maintain intimate relationships
What is Intimacy versus isolation
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What is the first critical stage of infant development?
Egocentrism or Self-Centeredness
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The theorist that developed a foundational theory of human moral development
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg
300
The stage of development from birth to age two that uses the senses to understand the environment
What is Sensorimotor
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The parenting style in which parents make high demands on their children and have a need for power and control
What is Authoritarian
300
Erickson’s psychosocial stage of development that is described as a stage in which children develop social and intellectual skills and become confident in their talents and competencies
What is Competence versus inferiority
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The life stage that includes midlife, world of work, and physical and mental changes
What is Adulthood
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According to Piaget, the stage of development that occurs in conjunction with adolescence, and is marked by the new found ability to use abstract reasoning and solve problems through hypothesis testing, is known as the:
What is the formal operational stage
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The theorist that worked on an understanding of three concepts: assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration
Who is Jean Piaget
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The parenting style in which parents make high demands on their children and also respect the children’s individuality
What is Authoritative
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The theorist that believed that people develop in the context of their environments, with the forces of culture exerting influence on the social world in all phases of development
Who is Erik Erikson
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The stage of development that lasts from approximately the 8th week after conception until birth.
What is known as the fetal stage.
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According to the ______ theory, young people learn about and acquire their gender roles through a process of observing and imitation at both cognitive and behavioral levels.
What is social learning
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A person modifies understanding of a concept to incorporate new information in this process
What is Accomodation
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The life stage that includes human development from conception through birth
What is Prenatal
500
Erikson's eight stages of psychological development in which each stage includes a crisis and requires a resolutoin
What are the Psychosocial Stages of Development