Infant/Toddlerhood
Early Childhood
Middle Childhood
Adolescence
General
100

the germinal period, embryonic period, and the fetal period

What are the three stages of prenatal development?

100

reaches 90% of its adult weight by age 5

What is the brain?

100

Ability to infer the relationship between A & B by understanding each object's relationship to C

What is transitive inference?

100

the biological transition to adulthood, in which hormones cause the body to physically mature and permit sexual reproduction

What is puberty?

100

The ways in which people grow, change, and stay the same throughout their lives

What is Lifespan Human Development?

200

The second stage of prenatal development, in which the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm will develop into all of the major organs of the body

What is embryonic period?

200

enables the brain to reorganize itself in response to injury

What is plasticity?

200

these skills refine and combine into more complex abilities (e.g., flexibility, balance, agility, and strength)

What are motor skills?

200

decided by the interaction of biological and contextual influences (e.g., genes, weight, exposure to stress)

What is pubertal timing?

200

multidimensional, multidirectional, plastic, influenced by multiple contexts, and multidisciplinary

What are the Principles of Lifespan Human Development?

300

Associated with health benefits for mothers, such as lower rates of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and depression

What is breastfeeding?

300

a cognitive-developmental stage that shows a dramatic leap in the use of symbolic thinking

What is the preoperational reasoning stage?

300

two major cognitive skills that children acquire in concrete operational stage

What are classification and conservation?

300

the ability to consider propositions, generate and systematically test hypotheses, and draw conclusions

What is hypothetical-deductive reasoning?

300

The viewpoint that states individuals are molded by the physical and social environment in which they are raised

What is nurture?

400

the tendency to seek information from caregivers’ emotional expressions to find clues for how to interpret ambiguous or unfamiliar events

What is social referencing?

400

an important social-cognitive skill that involves the ability to think about their own and other people’s mental processes

What is the theory of mind?

400

shifts from concrete descriptions of behavior to competencies and personality traits (e.g., popular, smart, good looking)

What is self-concept?

400

knowledge of how the mind works and the ability to control the mind

What is metacognition?

400

The entity that consists of relations and interactions among microsystems

What is mesosystem?

500

one of the substages that toddlers engage in mini-experiments and trial-and-error explorations 

What are tertiary circular reactions?

500

3rd psychosocial stage that develops a sense of purpose and takes pride in their accomplishments vs. a belief that it is wrong to be independent

What is initiative vs. guilt?

500

two patterns of behavior among rejected children

What are aggressive-rejected and withdrawn-rejected?

500

Kohlberg’s third level of moral reasoning emphasizing autonomous decision making based on principles such as valuing human dignity

What is post-conventional moral reasoning?

500

one of the first lifespan views of human development; 8 stages of psychosocial development, with each stage presenting a unique developmental task 

What is Erikson's Psychosocial Theory?