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Ch. 10 Psychology
Infancy and Childhood
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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