Sleep/Dreams
The thing that Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky believed cognitive development depended upon.
What is social learning?
This is the biological event that marks the end of childhood, caused by the endocrine hormones triggering sexual maturation.
What is puberty?
What can a parent do to speed up a child's walking or speaking?
Nothing. Or Wait for child to develop.
Learning the rules & behaviors from the culture in which you are born.
What is socialization?
Something that declines with age and then affects reaction time, visual motor flexibility, and memory.
What is the nervous system?
How does a securely-attached infant react when their mother leaves and then returns?
They protest when mother leaves, but they are happy to see mother when she returns.
1904, G. Stanley Hall wrote a book that described adolescence as ____ .
a time of storm and stress.
The ability that develops at 6 months and causes infants to fear visual cliffs.
What is depth perception?
The parenting-style that exhibits lots of support (love) and little discipline (rules).
What is the permissive parenting style?
What do some intelligence tests measure that is unrelated to intelligence and that makes adults appear less intelligent?
speed
At age 11+, this ability develops during Piaget's 4th cognitive stage (Formal Operational).
What is abstract thought?
Boys might be more aggressive than girls because of low levels of _____ .
The neurotransmitter serotonin.
After birth, a newborn’s brain continues to wire itself in response to stimuli such as _____ .
Light and color.
Per the cognitive approach, role-taking the job of mother or teacher allows youngsters to ___ .
learn different points of view.
Even if this ability has always been good, most people having difficulty _____ in their 40s.
seeing
Focusing on 1 feature of a problem, which prevents children under 5 from grasping the principle of conservation.
What is centered thought?
Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development Theory argues that the purpose of adolescence is to ____ .
develop an identity.
Kübler-Ross identified 5 common styles of dealing with death, but what do critics say about them?
There is no need to follow any order.
Due to Genie's limited interaction with humans as a child, she was never able to _____ .
Understand gammar.
People reasoning at the preconventional level of moral development are concerned with ___ .
avoiding punishment .
A significant event in many women’s lives is the moment that _____.
the children leave the home
Lev Vygotsky’s concept that children learn by working with others.
What is “Zone of Proximal Development”.
Isabella has job shadowed six businesses and has read countless help wanted ads on Indeed.com. She is aware of several careers, but still wants to do more research before choosing. James Marcia says this is ___ .
What is Identity Moratorium?
The correct order for the stages of language development.
What is cooing --> babbling--> sounds as symbols --> telegraphic speech?
According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what is the key to moral development?
Seeing someone else's point of view
Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development: The opposite of stagnation is ___ , which is when an adult mentors a young person.
generativity