Cognitive, Emotional, social Development
Stages of Development
Research Methods
Theorists
Information Processing
100

The ability to modify or control your thoughts, emotions, actions, and words

What is emotional self-regulation?

100

The transition between childhood and adulthood

What is adolescence?

100

This type of research design permits inferences on cause and effect

What is an experimental design?

100

 This theorist specialized in behaviorism and social learning theory, he was known as the founder

Who is John Watson?

100

The ability to focus and pay attention, remember instructions, and demonstrate self-control.

What is executive functioning?

200

This theory of development is organized by schemes, or mental representations

What is cognitive development?

200

This involves three stages, the germinal period, the embryonic stage, and the period of the fetus

What is prenatal development?

200

This type of research is how information is gained through listening and watching children, split into two categories.


What is systematic observation?

200

This theorist developed the psychosocial theory that focuses on development across the entire lifespan

Who is Erikson?

200

A child’s ability to seamlessly shift between activities and use different problem-solving approaches.

What is flexible shifting?

300

infants use displays of an adult to regulate their behaviors toward objects, persons, and situations



What is social referencing?

300

the first stage of Piaget's stages of development from 2-4 years old where there are representations made, but not yet operations



What is the preoperational stage of development?



300

 In this type of research,  researchers randomly assign participants to treatment conditions in natural settings.

What is a field experiment?

300

This theorist suggested the importance of being able to mentally represent the world, striving for adaptation as the goal motivated by equilibration

Who is Jean Piaget?

300

It is an executive function that gives the child the ability to think through their actions and stop themselves before making a poor decision

What is Inhibition?

400

The conscious long-term memory for meaning, understanding, and conceptual facts about the world

What is semantic memory?

400

This stage of development is when the highest levels on REM sleep occur

What is the fetal period?

400

A scientist was interested in the prevalence of smoking in young adults. To study this he recruited people ages 16, 18, and 20 and had them complete a survey to see if they smoked. What kind of research method is used here?

What is a cross-sectional design?

400

This theorist suggested that the sociocultural theory that skills are learned through social interaction and that this social interaction drives cognitive skills

Who is Vygotsky?

400

the understanding that people don't have the same thoughts and feelings you do

What is theory of mind?

500

Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory the circular reaction initially centers on what 



What is the infant's own body?

500

In this stage, infants and toddlers think with their eyes, hands, and ears

What is the sensorimotor stage?

500

Without manipulating variables a researcher wanted to study the relationship between the amount of exercise people engage in and their level of stress. What type of research design can be used here

What is a correlational design?

500

This theorist suggested the ecological systems theory, dealing with the influence of social environments on human development.

Who is Bronfrebrenner?

500

rehearsal, organization, elaboration

What are memory stages?