Physical Development
___ is the major period of rapid change in physical appearance during adolescence.
Puberty
Developmental stage during which a baby develops object permanence.
Sensorimotor
The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.
Imprinting
One's sense of being male or female not the biology.
What is gender identity
Person who developed four stages of cognitive development
Piaget
Order of Motor Development to upright mobility.
sit, crawl, walk, run
Term used to describe process of interpreting one's new experiences in terms of one's existing schemas.
Assimilation
What are authoritative
Our physical abilities--muscular strength, reaction time, sensory keenness, and cardiac output--reach their height by this age range.
Mid 20s
Person who identified three stages of morality (Gilliagan looked at girls as well)
Lawrence Kohlberg
This part of the brain does not develop fully until age 25
Frontal lobe
Developmental stage characterized by egocentrism and language development.
What is the preoperational stage
Erikson's stage where young adults struggle to form close relationships and to gain the capacity for intimate love
What is intimacy vs isolation
Someone whose gender identity does not match that which they were assigned at birth
What is transgender?
This person conducted experiments to test attachment in infant monkeys.
Harry Harlow
The three steps of the developing baby in order.
zygote, embryo, fetus
Developmental stage characterized by understanding conservation and mathematical transformations (such as reversability).
What is the concrete operational stage
A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
Temperament
In this type of study, researchers follow a group of subjects for several years
Longitudinal
Person who conducted the "strange situation" studies to observe infant attachment. Secure, Resistant and Avoidment.
Ainsworth
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
Teratogens
Preoperational stage of development when children can predict other's behaviors
Theory of the Mind
A sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy. (Erickson)
What is basic trust
Master Gland that contols hormones for growth and sexual maturation
What is the Pituitary Gland
Eight Stages of Social Development last stage is Integrity vs. Despair
Erik Erickson 1963