People
Jean Piaget's main focuses
Children's cognitive development
Albert Bandura experimented on
Learned Aggression
Developmental psychology
A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive and social change in a life span.
gender role
A set of specific behaviors for males and females.
Frued: Oral
Pleasure centers on the mouth, sucking, biting, chewing
Harry Harlow experimented on the attachment of which animal?
Monkeys
Observed emotional attachment between child and child giver
Mary Ainsworth
Treatogens
Any outside things that the mother is exposed to that has effects on the baby. (Ex. drugs, viruses, alcohol)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrom
Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman’s heavy drinking. In severe case signs include a small, out of proportion head & abnormal facial features.
Erickson's Adolescence stage
Identity vs Role
Discovered that ducks imprint and humans don't
Konrad Lorenz
Psychosexual Stages
Sigmund Frued
Maturation
Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
Prenatal Development
Zygote (conception-2 weeks) Embryo (2-9 weeks) Fetus (9-birth)
Erickson Young Adulthood
Intimacy vs Isolation
What did Diana Baumrind contribute to Developmental Psychology
Parenting Styles
Theory of Moral development
Accommodation
Adapting to our current understanding to incorporate new information.
social identity
The "we" aspect of our self concept, the part of our answer to "who am I?" that comes from our group memberships.
Concrete Operational (Piaget)
Thinking logically
Erick Erickson created the
Psychosocial Stages
Lev Vygotsky
Object Permanence
Object Permanence: The awareness that things continue to exist even though not perceived.
social learning theory
The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.
preoperational (Piaget)
Representing things with words and symbols