Developing through lifespan

Question 1

Developmental Psychology

Answer 1

studies physical, cognitive and social change through the life spans

Question 2

how many stages of Erikson’s stages of Psychosocial development?

Answer 2

8 stages

Question 3

Teratogens

Answer 3

Agents that can reach the embryo or fetus and cause harm

Question 4

Jean Piaget

Answer 4

focused on developmental child psychology

Question 5

Schema

Answer 5

Framework that organizes and interprets information (we all have an interpretation we think of when someone says the word “dog”)

Question 6

Piaget’s cognitive development theory consists of what stages?

Answer 6

4 stages
1. sensorimotor
2. preoperational
3. concrete operational
4. formal operational

Question 7

piaget: Sensorimotor stage

Answer 7

• birth-2 yrs
• object permanence

Question 8

piaget: Preoperational stage

Answer 8

• 2-7 yrs
• conservation

Question 9

piaget: concrete operational stage

Answer 9

• 7-12yrs
• Transitivity and reversibility

Question 10

piaget: formal operational stage

Answer 10

• 12+ yrs
• begin to think logically about abstract concepts

Question 11

Lev Vygotski

Answer 11

emphasized how the mind grows through interaction with social environment

Question 12

zone of proximal development

Answer 12

skills a child cannot do by themselves yet but can do with guidance

Question 13

self - concept

Answer 13

thoughts and feelings about ourselves (self-schema)

Question 14

attachment

Answer 14

emotional tie with another person

Question 15

Harlow’s monkey experiment findings:

Answer 15

• infant monkeys preferred comfy mother to wire mother
• mother was secure base to explore
• mother was safe haven to cling to
• importance of touch

Question 16

4 attachment styles:

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1. secure attachment
2. anxious preoccupied
3. dismissive avoidant
4. disorganized

Question 17

Nicolae Ceausescu: Who were his kids?

Answer 17

communist in romania that outlawed abortion/contraception, too many children so given to orphanage where child-caregiver ratio was 15-1. Children didn’t develop proper attachment figure and with lack of touch many died

Question 18

Parenting styles (4 but know 1)

Answer 18

1. Authoritative: confrontive, demanding and responsive

Question 19

Adolescence

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transition from childhood to adulthood

Question 20

Kohlberg’s Levels of morality

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1. preconventional morality (punishment and obedience)
2. conventional morality
3. postconventional morality

Question 21

what did Erikson say about Identity: sense of self

Answer 21

adolescent’s developmental task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles

Question 22

couples who live together prior to marriage have ___ rates of ____

Answer 22

higher rates of divorce

Question 23

Stages of grief

Answer 23

• denial
• bargaining
• anger
• acceptance