Infants
What stage comes right after birth and lasts about 1 year?
What is infancy?
What type of support do toddlers need to build secure attachments?
What is emotional support?
What major biological change begins during adolescence?
What is puberty?
What happens to physical growth during adulthood?
What is it slows down?
What are the 4 cognitive stages that piaget created?
Sensorimotor, preoperational, Concrete operational, and formal operational
What type of skills survival behaviors babies are born with, like sitting and walking
What are motor skills ?
What stage includes increased awareness and possible fears and anxieties?
What is emotional support?
What major biological change begins during adolescence?
What is puberty?
Name one major life goal often achieved in adulthood.
What is graduating, working, or building a family?
Which psychologist is known for their 8 stages of psychosocial development theory?
Erik erikson
What process happens in the brain when unused connections are removed?
What is pruning?
What stage includes increased awareness and possible fears and anxieties?
What is the preschool stage?
What type of processes involve emotions, relationships, and personality?
What are socioemotional processes?
What stage may include decline in health and memory?
What is late adulthood/retirement?
Often called the Father of Psychoanalysis, this theorist emphasized the importance of early childhood experiences in shaping our personality and behavior. His beliefs dominated the field of psychiatry until the growth of behaviorism in the 1950s.
Sigmund Freud
How many parts does the prenatal stage have and what are they called?
What are trimesters
What type of growth happens in middle childhood involving friends and stress?
What is social and physical growth?
What is the term for differences between age groups caused by historical time periods?
What are cohort effects?
What is the ability to adapt or recover from difficult situations?
What is resilience?
In the article, what are the 5 key development areas discussed?
Physical, cognitive, social, perceptual, personality
What is the term for harmful agents that can cause birth defects during pregnancy?
What are teratogens?
What are the four stages of childhood mentioned in your notes?
What are toddler, preschool, middle childhood, and adolescence?
What concept explains how people seek environments that match their personality?
What is genotype-environment correlation (niche picking)?
What type of study follows the same people over time?
What is a longitudinal study
What theory explains how both genes and environment influence development?
What is nature and nurture?