DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

Erik Erikson

Answer 1

Neo-Freudian, humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting “Who am I?”

Question 2

Psychosocial Theory

Answer 2

A theory of psychological development that proposes that cognitive, emotional, and social growth are the result of the interaction between social expectations at each life stage and the competencies that people bring to each life challenge. (Erikson)

Question 3

maturation

Answer 3

biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.

Question 4

Primary Sexual Characteristics

Answer 4

Is any of those anatomical parts of the body which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism

Question 5

Secondary Sexual Characteristics

Answer 5

Characteristics that develop during puberty that are not directly associated with reproduction, such as pubic hair and growth spurts.

Question 6

Harry Harlow

Answer 6

baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire “mothers;”

Question 7

Mary Ainsworth

Answer 7

A Psychologist interested mainly in developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation, devised patterns of attachment; “The Strange Situation”: observation of parent/child attachment. Discovered 3 Types of attachment 1.Secure Attachments(66%), 2.. Avoidant Attachments(21%) 3.Anxious/Ambivalent Attachment (12)

Question 8

Jean Piaget

Answer 8

Four stage theory of cognitive development: 1. sensorimotor, 2. preoperational, 3. concrete operational, and 4. formal operational. He said that the two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth-assimilation and accommodation

Question 9

schemas

Answer 9

According to Jean Piaget , cognitive structures that influence how information from the environment is perceived, stored, and remembered