Prenatal and Infants
This is an involuntary, automatic response present from birth.
What is a reflex?
This is a condition caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
This is all mental activities associated with thinking, remembering, and knowing.
What is cognition?
This parenting style involves strict discipline and low warmth or comfort.
What is authoritarian?
A person in this moral development level/stage would answer in any way that would avoid punishment for themselves.
What is preconventional?
This is what babies prefer to look at, because they will stare at it longer.
What is things that look like faces, things that have bright colours, things that have bold, big features.
Before babies start walking, they typically do this first.
What is crawling, standing, holding onto things and walking?
These are mental "buckets" that help people sort information into categories.
What are schemas?
This parenting style is categorized by communication between both parent and child, and moderate expectations of the child.
What is authoritative?
A person in this moral development/stage would answer in any way that follows law and order.
What is conventional?
What is a teratagon?
This is the age roughly when children start to walk.
What is 1 year old?
According to Piaget, at the preoperational stage, children develop these behaviours.
What is pretend play, egocenmtrism, and language development?
This attachment style is categorized by high anxiety and high avoidance.
What is disorganized?
Erikson believed that 1-3 year olds, by learning to accomplish tasks by themselves, would develop this.
What is autonomy?
This is a reflex where babies will grab your finger if you put it on their palm.
What is the grasping reflex?
The case study of Genie demonstrates the importance of certain experiences at important times, called this.
What is a critical period?
A child sees a motorcyle and calls it a car, when a parent corrects them and the child learns the difference between motorcycles and cars.
What is accommodation?
This experiment helped psychologists determine attachment styles of infants.
What is the Strange Situation experiment?
This is what people in the postconventional level of Kohlberg's moral development theory think about when deciding upon moral dilemmas.
What is
- social contract and individual rights
- universal ethical principles
This is a reflex where babies turn their head towards your finger if you touch their cheek.
What is a rooting reflex?
Bandura's Bobo Doll experiment, where kids were shown videos of adults hitting a bobo doll, demonstrates this principle.
What is social learning theory?
A child sees a daisy for the first time and calls it a dandelion. A parent explains that they are both flowers. The child then understands that daisies and dandelions are both flowers.
What is assimilation?
This is one of the three experiments that helped psychologists discover the 3 important aspects of caregiving that affect an infant's attachment to their caregiver.
What is...
- Harlow's Monkeys
- Still Face Experiment
- Imprinting - the ducks
This is a common criticism of theories of development.
What is...
- there are not distinct stages, much more fluid
- kids perform better at every task much earlier than theorists expected
- only white, wealthy children were mainly studied (cultural differences, access to education, etc.)