module 4
Terms
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- schemas
- concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information
- accomodation
- adapting ones current understandings to incorporate new information
- permissive parenting
- style of parenting marked by submitting childrens desires making few and using little punishment
- formal operational stage
- IN PIAGETS THEORY , the stage of cgognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract consepts and form strategies
- object permanence
- the awareness that things continuse to exist even when you cannot see or hear them
- harry harlow
- psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachement using infant monkeys and artificial mothers
- maturation
- biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior relitively uninfluenced by experience
- preoperational stage
- in piagets theory, the stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
- cognition
- all the mental activities associated with thinking knowing and remembering
- egocentrism
- in piagets thory the inability of the properational child to take anothers point of view
- FAS
- a series of physical and cognitive abnormalities that appear in children whose mothers consumed large amounts of alcohol while pregnant. symptoms may include noticeable facial mosproportions
- consevation
- the principle that properties such as mass volume and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects
- fetus
- the developing human organism from 9 weeks after contraception to birth
- authoritarian parenting
- style of parenting marked by imposing rules and expecting obiedience
- assimilation
- interpreting ones new experience in term of ones existing schemas
- konrad lorenz
- researcher who focused on critical attachment periods in baby birds a concept he called imprinting
- rooting reflex
- a baby's tendency when touched on the cheek to open the mouth and search for the nipple this is and automatic unlearned response
- teratogens
- substances that cross the placental barrier and prevent the fetus from developing normally
- temperment
- a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity
- concrete operational stage
- in piagets thory the stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental skills that let them think logically about concrete events
- sensorimotor stage
- in piagets theory the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities
- attachment
- an emotional tie with another perons young children demonstrate attachment by seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation
- jean piaget
- pioneer in the study of developmental psychology who introduced a stage theory fo cognitive development that led to a better understanding of children's thought processes
- imprinting
- the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life
- genes
- the bichemical units of heredity that direct how our cells become specialized for various functions
- stranger anxiety
- the fear of strangers that infants commonly display beginning by about 8 months of age
- zygote
- the fertilized egg; it enters a 2 week period of rapid cell division and develops in to an embryo
- authoritative parenting
- a style of parenting marked by making demands on the child being responsive setting and enforcing rules and discussing the reasons behind the rules
- embryo
- the developing human organism form about 2 weeks after fertilization through the end of the eighth week
- CRITICAL PERIOD
- an optional period shortly after birth when an organisms exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development