Chapter 5b Flashcards
The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence.
adolescence
The period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.
Puberty
Our sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent’s task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles.
Identify
The “we” aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to “Who am I?” that comes from our group memberships.
Social Identity
In Erikson’s theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in young adulthood.
Intimacy
A period from about age 18 to the mid-twenties, when many in Western cultures are no longer adolescents but have not yet achieved full independence as adults.
Emerging Adulthood
The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.
menopause
Research that compares people of different ages at the same point in time.
Cross-sectional Study
Research that follows and retests the same people over time.
Longitudinal Study
Acquired (not lifelong) disorders marked by cognitive deficits; often related to Alzheimer’s disease, brain injury or disease, or substance abuse.
Neurocognitive Disorders
A neurocognitive disorder marked by neural plaques, often with onset after age 80, and entailing a progressive decline in memory and other cognitive abilities.
Alzheimers Disease
The culturally prefered timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
Social Clock
Morgan is a 5-year-old child who has learned how to use language but doesn’t understand the mental operations of concrete logic yet. According to Piaget’s theory, Morgan is in the:
Preoperational Stage
According to Piaget’s theory, the milestones of object permanence and stranger anxiety occur in which stage?
Sensorimotor
Erikson offered that appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers during infancy forms:
Basic Trust
In a famous example of imprinting, Konrad Lorenz asked the question “What would ducklings do if he was the first moving creature they observed?” What he found was that the ducklings…
Followed him everywhere he went
Concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information. According to Piaget, the maturing brain’s way of making sense of our experiences.
Schemas
Which of the following is TRUE of the Harlows’ monkey experiments?
The monkeys developed attachments to inanimate “cloth” mothers
According to Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, the primary task during adolescence (teen years to 20s) is to form ____________________, while the primary task in young adulthood (early 20s to early 40s) is to form ____________________.
An identity: Intimate relationships
____________________ studies compare people of different ages at the same point in time.
Cross-sectional
In a(n) ________________ study, people are followed and retested over time.
Longtitudinal
Which psychologist in this week’s reading was most associated with moral reasoning?
Kohlberg
