Infants
What is the fastest growing organ in an infant?
What is the brain?
Improved control of the hands and fingers leads to dramatic gains of what?
What is fine-motor skills?
A common health problem that can begin in middle childhood.
What is obesity?
Transition between childhood and adulthood.
What is adolescence?
Dividing information into right and wrong
What is dualistic thinking?
Copying the behavior of another person.
What is imitation?
Make believe play is an example of the development of representation in what early childhood theory?
What is Piaget's theory: The preoperational stage?
What Piaget's stage do children become more logical, flexible, and organized?
What is the concrete operational stage?
Heredity, nutrition, exercise, and overall physical health influence
What influences the timing of puberty?
Age graded expectations for major life events
What is social clock?
The stage according to Piaget's spans the first two years of life.
What is Sensorimotor stage?
Adjusting the support offered during a teaching session to fit the child's current level of performance.
What is scaffolding?
Judgements of their appearances, abilities, and behavior in relation to those of others.
What is social comparisons?
What are the major characteristics of formal operational thought?
Form hypothesis, deduce logical inferences, and systematically isolate and combine variables to see which inferences are confirmed.
The preferred mode of entry into a committed intimate partnership for young people.
What is cohabitation?
The infant's ability to associate that usually occur together in the everyday world.
What is classical conditioning?
A program where teachers provide activities from which children select, and much learning takes place through play.
What is a child-centered program?
Common emotional problems in middle childhood.
What is fear and anxieties?
Biggest factor in high school dropout.
What is lack of parental support?
Evident in the young person's thoughts and feelings about making a long-term commitment to an intimate partner and mutually gratifying friendships.
What is intimacy versus isolation?
The theory is about infants actively searching for invariant features of the environment in a constantly changing world.
What is Gibson's differentiation theory?
The most successful child rearing approach involving high acceptance and involvement, adaptive control techniques, and appropriate autonomy granting.
What is authoritative child-rearing style?
Authoritative child rearing, parental monitoring, and regular after school chores lead to?
What is self-care child?
Most common psychological problem of adolescence.
What is depression?
Passion, intimacy, and commitment that shift in emphasis as romantic relationships develop.
What is triangular theory of love?