Chapter 11 Development Flashcards
Social Referencing
The ability to use another person’s reaction as information about the world.
Joint Attention
The ability to focus on what another person is focused on.
Imitation
The ability to do what another person does, or what another person meant to do.
False Belief Test
Maxi puts chocolate in box 1. Someone else comes and moves it to box 2. The children are then asked where Maxi would look for the chocolate.
Attachment
The emotional bond that forms between newborns and their primary caregivers.
Children’s moral thinking tends to shift from ___ to ___ (3 answers).
Realism, relativism. Prescriptions, principles. Outcomes, intentions.
Preconventional Stage
A stage of moral development in which the morality of an action is primarily determined by it’s consequences for the actor.
Conventional Stage
A stage if moral development in which the morality of an action is primarily determined by the extent to which it conforms to social rules.
Postconventional Stage
A stage of moral development at which the morality of an action is determined by a set of general principles that reflect core values.
