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Psych 101 17&18
Psych 101 17&18 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accommodation | where a person changes old methods to adjust to new situations |
| Adolescence | between the ages of 12-18, the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood |
| Anal stage | second psychosexual stage, lasting from the age of 1 ½ to 3 in this stage the infant’s pleasure seeking is centered on the anus and its functions of elimination |
| Assimilation | the process by which a child uses old methods or experiences to deal with new situations and then incorporates the new information into his or her existing knowledge |
| Attachment | a close fundamental emotional bond that develops between the infant and his or her parent |
| Concrete operations | between the ages of 7-11 during this stage, children can perform a number of logical mental operations on concrete objects that are physically present |
| Conservation | the idea that even though the shape of some object has changed that total amount has stayed the same |
| Cross-sectional method- | a research in which several groups of different aged individuals are studied at the same time |
| Developmental psychologists | psychologists who study a person’s biological, emotional, cognitive, personal, and social development across the life span |
| Formal operations stage | 12-adulthood where adults develop the ability to think about abstract or hypothetical concepts |
| Genital stage | puberty though adulthood, individuals has renewed sexual desires that he or she seeks to fulfill through relationships with other people |
| Insecure attachment | emotional bond characteristic of infants who avoid, or show ambivalence toward their parents |
| Latency stage | from age 6-puberty represents sexual thoughts and engages in nonsexual activities |
| Longitudinal method | a research design in which the same group of individuals is studied repeatedly at many different points in time |
| Object permanence | the understanding that objects or events continue to exist even if they can no longer be heard, touched, or seen |
| Oral stage | the first 18 months of life, the infants pleasure seeking is centered on the mouth |
| Phallic stage | lasting from 3-6 the infants pleasure seeking is centered on the genitals |
| Piaget’s cognitive stages | four stages, the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations stages |
| Preoperational stage | 2 to 7 children learn to use symbols to think about things that are not present |
| Puberty | 9-17 when the individual experiences significant biological changes and as a result develops secondary sexual characteristics |
| Schema | mental categories that contain certain knowledge about people, events and concepts |
| Secure attachment | an emotional bond characteristic of infants who use their parent as a safe home base from which they can wonder off and explore their environments |
| Sensorimotor stage | birth to 2 years infants learn to interact with and learn about their environments by relating their sensory images |
| Separation anxiety | an infants distress when their parents leave |
| Temperament | an individuals distinctive pattern of attention, arousal, and reactivity to new or novel situations |
| Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning | the basis for ethical behavior, has six identifiable developmental stages, each more adequate at responding to moral dilemmas than its predecessor |
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