Psych Chp 7
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- Preoperational Stage
- The second stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, from age 2 to 6, during which the child's thinking becomes more symbolic and language-based, but remains egocentric and lacks the mental operations that allow logical thinking.
- Zone of Proximal Development
- According to Vygotsky, the difference between what a child can actually do and what the child could do with the help of others.
- Sensorimotor Stage
- The first stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, from birth to about age 2, during which infants learn about the world through their sensory and motor interactions with it and develop object permanence.
- Formal Operational Stage
- The last stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, starting at age 12 or so, during which a child gains the capacity for hypothetical-deductive thought.
- Attachment
- The lifelong emotional bond between infants and their mothers or other caregivers, formed during the first 6 months of life.
- Permissive Parenting
- A style of parenting in which the parents make few demands and are overly responsive to their children's desires, letting their children do pretty much as they please.
- Preconventional Level of Moral Reasoning
- The first level of reasoning in Kohlberg's theory of moral development in which moral reasoning is based on avoiding punishment and looking out for your own welfare and needs.
- Assimilate
- Piaget's term for the interpretation of new experiences in terms of present schemas.
- Rooting Reflex
- An innate human reflex that leads infants to turn their mouth towards anything that touches their cheeks and search for something to suck on.
- Cohort Effects
- People of a given age are affected by factors unique to their generation, leading to differences in performance between generations.
- Authoritative Parenting
- A style of parenting in which the parents are demanding, but set rational limits for their children and communicate well with their children.
- Babbling
- The rhythmic repetition of various syllables including both consonants and vowels.
- Reversaibility
- The knowledge that reversing a transformation brings about the conditions that existed before the transformation.
- Holophrase
- A word used by an infant to express a complete idea.
- Longitudinal Study
- A study in which performance of the same group of participants is examined at different ages.
- Identical (monozygotic) Twins
- Twins that originate from the same zygote.
- Insecure-avoidant Attachment
- The type of attachment indicated by the infant exploring with little interest in the mother in the Ainsworth strange situation procedure, showing only minimal distress when the mother leaves, and avoiding her when she returns.
- Sucking Reflex
- An innate human reflex that leads infants to suck anything that touches their lips.
- Authoritarian Parenting
- A parenting style in which the parents are demanding, expect unquestioned obedience, are not responsive to their children's desires, and communicate poorly with their children.
- Centration
- The tendency to focus on only one aspect of a problem at a time.
- Telegraphic Speech
- Using two-word sentences with mainly nouns and verbs.
- Conventional Level of Moral Reasoning
- The second level of reasoning in Kohlberg's theory of moral development in which moral reasoning is based on social rules and laws.
- Uninvolved Parenting
- A style of parenting in which the parents minimize both the time they spend with their children and their emotional involvement with them and provide for their children's basic needs, but little else.
- Gene
- The base unit of genetic instruction.
- Egocentrism
- The inability to distinguish one's own perceptions, thoughts, and feelings from those of others.
- Baby Talk (motherese)
- The different format of speech that adults use when talking with babies that involves the use of shorter sentences with a higher, more melodious pitch.
- Zygote
- The fertilized egg that is formed from the union of the sperm and egg cells in human reproduction.
- Object Permanence
- The knowledge that an object exists independent of perceptual contact with it.
- Insecure-disorganized (disoriented) Attachment
- The type of attachment indicated by the infant's confusion when the mother leaves and returns in the Ainsworth strange situation procedure. The infant acts disoriented, seems overwhelmed by the situation, and does not demonstrate a consistent way of coping with it.
- Schemes
- Piaget's term for what are now called schemas- frameworks for our knowledge about people, objects, events, and actions that allow us to organize and interpret information about our world.
- Developmental Psychology
- The scientific study of biological, social, and personality development across the life span.
- Secure Attachment
- The type of attachment indicated by the infant exploring freely in the presence of the mother in the Ainsworth strange situation, displaying distress when the mother leaves, and responding enthusiastically when she returns.
- Underextension
- The failure to apply a new word more generally to objects that are included within the meaning of the word.
- Accommodation
- Piaget's term for the modification of present schemas to fit with new experiences.
- Postconventional Level of moral Reasoning
- The last level of reasoning in Kohlberg's theory of moral development in which moral reasoning is based on self-chosen universal ethical principles (with human rights taking precedence over laws) and the avoidance of self-condemnation for violating such principles.
- Overextension
- The application of a newly learned word to objects that are not included in the meaning of the word.
- Chromosomes
- Molecules of DNA that hold the genetic instructions for every cell in the body.
- Insecure-ambivalent Attachment
- The type of attachment indicated by the infant not exploring but seeking closeness to the mother in the Ainsworth strange situation and showing high levels of distress when the mother leaves and ambivalent behavior when she returns by alternately clinging to and pushing away from her.
- Teratogens
- Environmental agents such as drugs and viruses, diseases, and physical conditions that impair prenatal development and lead to birth defects and sometimes death.
- Conservation
- The knowledge that the quantitative properties of objects (such as mass and number) remain the same despite changes in appearance.
- Scaffolding
- According to Vygotsky, a style of teaching in which the teacher adjusts the level of help in relation to the child's level of performance while orienting the child's learning toward the upper level of his or her zone of proximal development.
- Cross-sectional Study
- A study in which the performances of groups of participants of different ages are compared to one another.
- Fraternal (dizygotic) Twins
- Twins that originate from the fertilization of two eggs at approximately the same time (two zygotes).
- Habituation
- A decrease in the physiological responding to a stimulus once it becomes familiar.
- Concrete Operational Stage
- The third stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, from age 6 to 12, during which children gain a fuller understanding of conservation and other mental operations that allow them to think logically, but only about concrete events.