Prenatal Development
The shortest period of prenatal development.
What is the period of the zygote?
The name for the clinical method for studying infant attachment.
What is the Strange Situation?
When a child sees a zebra for the first time and calls it a horse.
What is assimilation?
A knowing of whether one is a boy or a girl.
What is gender identity?
Rosa Parks demonstrated reasoning at this moral level when she refused to move to the back of the bus.
What is Post Conventional moral reasoning?
The period in which all body organs and systems are created.
What is the embryonic period?
The best indicator of neurological health in the newborn infant.
The stage in which a child becomes capable of abstract reasoning.
What is the Formal Operational Stage?
Fixed and over-simplistic generalizations of how each gender should think, feel and behave.
What are gender stereotypes?
The last part of the brain to fully develop. It does not mature until mid twenties in males.
What is the frontal lobe?
The period of prenatal development in which implantation occurs.
What is the period of the zygote?
Avoidant attachment and anxious/ambivalent attachment.
What are forms of insecure attachment?
The stage in which children demonstrate mastery of conservation.
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
Then tendency for men and women to adopt traits associated with the opposite gender as they age.
What is gender crossover?
The process in children & teens by which neural networks that are not used are lost.
What is synaptic pruning.
The period in prenatal development in which the organism is most susceptible to damage by teratogens.
What is the period of the embryo?
The most developed sense in the newborn infant.
What is hearing?
The understanding that objects still exist even when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
A mental framework used to organize information about gender based on cultural norms and social learning.
What is gender schema?
A demanding and responsive parenting style that promotes identity development in adolescence.
What is authoritative parenting?
The body system that remains the most sensitive to teratogens throughout pregnancy becauase it does most of the work in the growth & finishing stage.
What is the Central Nervous System?
His research proved that contact comfort was at the base of infant attachment.
Who is Harry Harlow?
The stage in which children fail to demonstrate that properties of objects remain the same even when the appearance changes.
What is Piaget's Preoperational Stage of development?
What is gender intensification?
The identity status associated with an identity crisis but no commitment.
What is moratorium?