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psych ch3 vocab
Psychology Vocabulary ch3
Question | Answer |
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developmental | the branch of psychology that studies the emotional, physical, cognitive, biological, personal, and social characters that occur throughout an individuals life cycle |
grasping reflex | an infant's clinging response to a touch on the palm of his/her hand |
rooting reflex | an infant's response in turning toward the source of the touching that occurs anywhere around his/her mouth |
maturation | the internally programmed growth of a child that occurs as a result of automatic, genetically determined signals |
telegraphic speech | the kind of verbal utterances offered by young children in which articles, propositions, and parts of verbs are left out, but the meaning is usually clear |
schema | an idea or mental frame work a person uses to organize and interpret information and make sense of the world |
assimilation | the process of fitting objects and experiences in to one's schemas to deal with new situations and to understand the environment |
accommodation | the process by which a person changes his/her old methods or schema to adjust or deal with new situations |
object permanence | a child's realization that an object exists even when he/she cannot see, hear, or touch it |
representational thought | the intellectual ability of a child to picture something in his/her mind |
conservation | according to Piaget, the principle that a given quality does not change when its appearance is changed |
egocentric | a young child's inability to understand another person's prospective |
imprinting | inheriting tenancies or responses that are displayed by newborn animals when they encounter new stimuli in their environment |
critical period | a stage or point in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned |
authoritarian family | family in which parents attempt to control, shape, and evaluate the behavior and attitude of children in accordance with a set code of conduct |
democratic/authoritative family | family in which adolescents participate in decisions affecting their lives |
permissive/laissez-faire family | family in which children have the final say, parents are less controlling and have a non-punishing, accepting attitude toward children |
socialization | the process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born and will live |
identification | in psychoanalytic theory, the process by which a child adopts the values and principles of the same sex parent |
sublimation | the process of redirecting sexual impulses into learning tasks |
role-talking | and important aspect of children's play that involves assuming adult roles, thus enabling the child to experience different points of view first hand |