the study of a person’s biological, emotional, cognitive, personal, and social development across the life span.
What is Developmental Psychology?
100
Every human being has this many chromosomes.
What are 46?
100
parenting style is characterized by the child having rights similar to an adult’s but with few responsibilities, while rules are rarely enforced and the child usually getting his or her way
What is permissive or overly permissive?
100
Having freedom and independence.
What is autonomy?
100
The range of tasks a child cannot master alone, but can with guidance.
What is zone of proximal development?
200
Developmental changes that are genetically/biologically programmed rather than acquired through learning and life experiences
What is Maturation?
200
Inherited, physical core of a child’s personality (the way they act when they are born)
What is Temperament?
200
parents control their children’s behavior in a caring, responsible manner that is not harsh or rigid. They want their children to comply with their request for a reason, not because they, as parents, said to do it
What is authoritative?
200
a skill that must be mastered or personal change that must
take place, for optimal development
What is a developmental task?
200
this is a temporary support by a tutor that is removed once the skill is learned
What is scaffolding?
300
A pleasant and reassuring feeling human infants get from touching or clinging to something soft and warm, usually their mother
What is contact comfort?
300
A gene must be paired with a second gene of the same type before its effect will be expressed.
What is a recessive gene?
300
Strict discipline and rigid rules describe this parenting style.
What is authoritarian?
300
Individuals in their 70’s and 80’s (last stage) are facing a time of reflection and the psychosocial conflict called this.
What is Integrity versus Despair?
300
Using existing mental patterns in new situations
What is assimilation?
400
When more than one gene work together to create specific characteristics
What is polygenetic?
400
The sum of all external conditions that affect a person’ s development
What is environment?
400
This parenting style is known to be the best style to use
What is authoritative?
400
Trust vs Mistrust, Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt, Initiative vs Guilt, Industry vs Inferiority
What are the first four stages of Erickson's psycosocial development?
400
Piaget believed that intellect grew through these processes.
What is assimilation and accommodation?
500
The development of values, beliefs, and thinking abilities that act as a guide regarding what is acceptable behavior
What is moral development?
500
Both are seen as equally important to child development
What are environment and heredity?
500
This exists when an environment is deliberately made more complex, intellectually stimulating, and emotionally supportive
What is enrichment?
500
Identity vs Role Confusion, Intimacy vs Isolation, Generativity vs Stagnation, Integrity vs Despair
What are the last four stages of Erikson's psycosocial developmental theory?