Theorizing
If I say that only objectively observable behaviors and stimuli are worth studying, I am championing this theory
What is Traditional Behaviorism?
We call motor skills like drawing or painting this smooth-sounding term.
What are Fine Motor Skills?
This is the very first way a child is able to communicate; before even begining to babble.
What is Crying?
Understanding that not everyone else likes Ham just because Robin does shows that he has developed this
What is Theory of Mind?
This is what we call data that we cannot do any sensible math to; ie, data that is non-numeric.
What is Qualitative Data?
This theory was started by a very important, but very incorrect, psychological figure and was key to putting UN-conscious thoughts back into the spotlight.
What is Psychoanalytics?
This describes the intentional loss of connections in the brain to promote development
What is Pruning?
This is the final 3-month section of pregnancy.
What is the third trimester?
It would be an example of this Pigaet-derived concept if Chartrese thinks that Un-Crumpling a piece of paper makes it become more paper, because it is now wider and longer.
What is Preoperational Thinking?
If we're watching people that are not aware of that fact, in a public space of course, then we are conducting this kind of data collection.
If I am observing the effects of something instead of the thing itself, I have used this method to investigate my theories.
What is the Transcendental Method?
When a disorder is specifically an alteration to one specific piece of genetic code, it is called this.
What is a Genetic Disorder? (or Single-Gene Disorder)
This dictates that larger less detailed features of the human body will be developed first.
What is the Mass-to-Specific Sequence?
This term describes those around a child that can help them master cognitive skills.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
Comparing people who are currently different ages is how we conduct this particular kind of study
What is a Cross-Sectional study?
While very strange sounding, this term simply means that our environment can alter our genetics.
What is Epigenetics?
This is what we called the first "true" attachment shown by babies in their first couple months.
What is Critical Attachment (or Clear Cut Attachment)?
It would be a violation of this sequence if toes were to develop before fingers
What is the Cephalocodal Sequence?
This kind of attachment is the only one shown to protect infants from later issues, instead of make them more likely.
What is Secure Attachment?
This study combined multiple methods to show the multiple issues present with older comparisons of younger and older people.
What was the Seattle Longitudinal Study?
This occurs when someone allows new information they have received about the world to change how they understand the world.
What is Accommodation?
If we would describe someone as Hardy, we could also describe their mental fortitude woith this term.
What is Resiliance?
This is the single last step that come for a neuron developing.
What is Myelination?
If a child thinks that humans can control the temperature outside like they can inside, then they are experiencing this childhood mistake.
What is artificialism?
If a study is Correlational, that means it is lacking key elements to show this similarly named kind of relationship
What is Causation?