Chp 10

Question 1

Developmental Psychology

Answer 1

study of how people grow and change through out a life span

Question 2

Maturation

Answer 2

is the automatic and sequential process of development that results from genetic signals

Question 3

Critical Period

Answer 3

A stage in development when a person is best able to learn a skill or behavior

Question 4

Reflex

Answer 4

An involuntary reaction or response

Question 5

Infancy

Answer 5

Period from birth to two years old

Question 6

Childhood

Answer 6

Period of two years old to adolescence

Question 7

Attachment

Answer 7

Emotional ties between people

Question 8

Stranger Anxiety

Answer 8

Developed by eight months; fear of being around new people

Question 9

Separation Anxiety

Answer 9

Developed by eight months; fear of separation

Question 10

Contact Comfort

Answer 10

The need to touch and be touched

Question 11

Imprinting

Answer 11

Process of how animals form immediate attachments

Question 12

Authoritarian

Answer 12

Parents believe in obedience for its own sake

Question 13

Authoritative

Answer 13

Combining warmth with positive strictness

Question 14

Self-Esteem

Answer 14

Value people attach to themselves

Question 15

Unconditional Positive Regard

Answer 15

Parents accept their children no matter what

Question 16

Conditional Positive Esteem

Answer 16

Show affection only when children do well

Question 17

Accommodation

Answer 17

Change brought by new information

Question 18

Assimilation

Answer 18

New information is placed into categories

Question 19

Sensorimotor Stage

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Beginning to see relationship between physical movement and change in senses

Question 20

Pre-operational Stage

Answer 20

Start to use words and symbols to represent objects

Question 21

Conservation

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Children do not understand the law of conservation

Question 22

Egocentric

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Inability to see another point of view

Question 23

Concrete-Operational Stage

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Start of adult thinking

Question 24

Formal-Operational Stage

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Final stage is puberty and cognitive maturity

Question 25

Pre-conventional Moral Reasoning

Answer 25

Base judgements on consequences of behavior

Question 26

Conventional Moral Reasoning

Answer 26

Judgement if act conforms to conventional standards of right and wrong

Question 27

Post-Conventional Moral Reasoning

Answer 27

Reasoning based on self moral standards