ashley's psych notes Flashcards
study of how and why people change over the course of a life span
developmental psychology
the prenatal stage is split into the
germinal, embryonic, and fetal stages
nature vs. nurture =
genetics vs. environment
1st stage of development
conception
3rd stage of development
neonatal
stage where lots of reflexive things going on such as rooting, sucking, stepping, grapsing, swallowing
neonatal
how old are babies when they begin to smile
6 weeks
what stage involves mimicry
neonatal
average age at which skills are achieved
developmental norm
biological process that unfolds as a person gets older
maturation
relaxed and tolerable of stranger =
secure attachment
infant experiences determine how brains grow
headgrowth
instincitve attraction to first moving object an organism sees - in birds
imprinting
playing around each other but not with each other
parallel play
network of same age group or friends
peer group
sense of independence
autonomy
process by which children learn attitudes that are appropriate for their culture
socialization
girl knows she is a girl
gender identity
realization that gender does not change
gender constancy
piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development
sensory motor (0-2)
preoperational ((2-7)
conccrete operational
formal operational
charactertiics of the sensory motor stage
object permance
goal directed behavior
mental representations
awareness that an object continues to exist when out of sight
object permanence
using association images or symbols to remember things
mental representations
when a kid can keep a goal in mind to direct their behavior
goal directed behavior
characteristics of the preoperational stage
fantasy play/ symbolic gesture
egocentric
animistic thinking
centration
difficulty seeing things from other people’s perspectives
egocentric
inanimate object come to life
animistic thinking
kids are unable to undrerstand the big picture
centration
characteristics on concrete operational stage
more flexible on thinking
conservation, complex schemas
who came up with the theory of indentity crisis
james marcia
adolescnese comprises of
puberty/ sexual maturation
who came up with identity v.s. role confusion
erikson
4 stages of an identity crisis
idnetity achievement
identity foreclosure
moratorium
identity diffusion
idnetity achievement is parallel with
success
identity foreclosure is parallel with
premature
moratorium is parallel with
active
identity diffusion s parallel with
avoidance
