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Ch. 10 Psychology

Infancy and Childhood

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Developmental Psychology The branch of psychology that studies the physical, cognitive, and social changes that occur throughout the life cycle.
Maturation The automatic and sequential process of developement that results from genetic signals.
Critical Period A point in development during which a person is best suited to learn a particular skill.
Reflex An involuntary reaction or response.
Infancy The period from birth to 2 years.
Childhood The period from 2 years to adolescence.
Attachment The emotional ties that form between people.
Stranger Anxiety A fear of strangers that develops in infancts by about 8 months old.
Seperation Anxiety At about 8 months old infants will cry or indicate distress if their mothers leave them.
Contact Comfort The satisfaction obtained from pleasant, soft stimulation.
Imprinting The process by which animals form strong attachements during a critical period in life. (Animals will even attach to humans)
Authoritative Parents combine warmth with positive kinds of strictness.
Authoritarian A parenting style favoring unquestioning obedience.
Self-Esteem The value or worth that people attach to themselves.
Unconditional Positive Regard Parents will love and respect their children for who they no matter what.
Conditional Positive Regard Parents show love only when the children behave in a certain acceptable ways.
Assimilation The process by which new information is placed into categories that already exist.
Accomodation A change brought about because of new information.
Nature Human behavior that is determined by heredity.
Object Permanence The understanding that objects exist even when they cannot be seen or touched.
What are Piaget's 4 stages of Cognitive Development? Sensorimotor Stage, Preoperational Stage, Concrete-Operational Stage, and Formal-Operational Stage.
Conservation The principle that properties of substance remain the same despite
Egocentrism The inability to see another persons point of view.
Nurture The belief that human behavior is determined by a persons environment.
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