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What aspect of development did Jean Piaget's development theory focus on?
cognitive
Temperament refers to what aspect of an infants development?
emotional reactivity
Ryan has a difficult time understanding his mother's facial expressions and engages in repetitive actions. One explanation of this is that Ryan is suffering from
ASD
the theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished
social learning theory
According to Erickson's psychosocial theory of development the crisis that needs resolution for adolescents involves the search for what?
identity
Once a sperm penetrates the cell wall of an egg and fertilizes it, the structure is known as what?
a zygote
an example would be a computer programmer learns a new programming language.
assimilation
what stage of Kohlberg is loyalty to law and order
stage 4
What is the correct term for a period of time when certain events must take place in order to facilitate proper development?
critical period
Most adolescents can ponder and debate human nature, good and evil, truth and justice. According to Piaget, this thinking ability is due to the emergence of which stage?
formal operational
A child thinking that anything that flies is a bird until corrected, then the child can differentiate between a child and plane.
accommodation
the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing
puberty
According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what stage of moral development is exhibited when actions are judged "right" because they flow from basic ethical principles?
post-conventional
Cultural norms related to when to leave home, get a job, or marry are referred to as what?
social clocks
the preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view
egocentrism
a period from about 18 to the mid-twenties, when many in Western cultures are ni longer adolescents but have not yet achieved full independence as adults
emerging adulthood
According to Mary Ainsworth's research on attachment what would a child need most to become "securely attached"?
consistant responsive caregivers
By providing increasingly difficult words for his second grader to spell, Logan is making use of
scaffolding
demonstrated by infants who comfortably explore environments on the presence of their caregiver, show only temporary distress when the caregiver leaves, and find comfort in the caregiver’s return
secure attachement
the ability to form close, loving relationships
intimacy