Key Terms
Understanding that things continue to exist even when they are not within view
What is object permanence?
During this time period, weight typically triples.
What is infancy?
Who is Freud?
Enduring debate that asks whether development is the result of our genes or driven by our environment.
At every age, boys are taller than girls
What is false?
Uses of small coordinated muscle movements.
What are fine motor skills?
This sense is least developed at birth.
What is Vision?
Psychologist who posited four stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations and formal operations stages
Who is Piaget?
Enduring debate that wrestles with whether change/development happens gradually or in stages
What is continuous versus discrete change?
The longest stage of prenatal development is the embryonic phase.
What is False? (it's the fetal stage)
Parenting style represented by parents who set clear rules and expectations for their children while also explaining the reasons behind them. Parents set consistent limits while also expressing warmth and affection for their child.
What is authoritative?
Socially constructed term that starts with puberty and ends with emerging adulthood.
What is Adolescence?
Developmental psychologist who proposed 8 stages of conflict beginning with trust v. mistrust and ending with ego integrity v. despair.
Who is Erikson?
Perspective that views development as a continuous process of learning through conditioning, driven by external stimuli, reinforcements, and punishments
What is behavioral?
Physical development includes changes in IQ, language development and theory of mind
What is False?
An innate automatic response to particular forms of stimulation.
What is a reflex?
When brain maturation is complete.
What is early/emerging adulthood?
Psychologist who proposed that moral development occurs in stages.
Domain of development represented by the study of personality, emotions and how we get along and are influenced by others.
What is psychosocial development?
During late adulthood, individuals withdraw and disconnect from society.
What is False (this is known as disengagement theory which research has generally disproved)
Any environmental agent whether it be biological, chemical, or physical that causes damage to the developing embryo or fetus.
What is a Teratogen?
Three stages of prenatal development
What are germinal, embryonic and fetal?
Psychologist who argued that girls and boys were socialized differently leading to different stages of moral development.
Who is Giligan?
During this type of experiment, the infant is allowed to explore a room with their care giver present and absent.
What is the "strange situation"?
Whether psychologists should focus on development that occurs in everyone or on differences between communities refers to the universal v. culturally dependent enduring debate.
What is True?