mod 14: infancy and childhood

Question 1

maturation

Question 2

cognition

Question 3

schema

Answer 3

mental molds - concepts/framework which organizes and interprets info

Question 4

assimilation

Answer 4

interpreting ones new experiences in words of existing schemas (ex. call a cat”doggy”)

Question 5

accomodation

Answer 5

child encounters new thing and changes an existing schema (ex. call a cat “doggy”, get corrected and now call cats cats)

Question 6

sensorimotor stage

Answer 6

experiencing the world through senses and actions (babies put everything in their mouths)

Question 7

object permanence

Answer 7

during sensorimotor stage, alongside stranger anxiety

Question 8

egocentrism

Question 9

preoperational stagre

Answer 9

representing things with words and images

Question 10

conservation

Answer 10

happens during concrete operational, mass, blah blah blah remains same despite changes in form

Question 11

theory of mind

Answer 11

consider other peoples minds and ideas and feelings

Question 12

concrete operational stage

Question 13

formal operational stage

Question 14

stranger anxiety

Question 15

attachment

Question 16

critical period

Question 17

imprinting

Question 18

basic trust and who came up with it

Answer 18

formed in infancy w/caregivers, if world is shown to be a safe place then trust, erikson

Question 19

self concept

Question 20

how do children’s minds develop (piaget perspective)?

Answer 20

assimilation and accomodation, forming schemas to help organize experiences from simple sensorimotor object permanence to the operational theory of mind to the concrete operational conservation to systematic reasoning of the formal operational stage

Question 21

how long for parent-infant attachment bonds to form

Answer 21

8 months (when removed from caregivers, babies have stranger anxiety)

this is contrasted with other animals and the concept of imprinting during a similar critical period

Question 22

when do self-images become “stable”

Answer 22

8-10 years

Question 23

physical development

Answer 23

biological growth, sets basic course for development and experiences tunes it

Question 24

basically no cortical connections (just breathing and stuff) leads to… (memory)

Answer 24

cannot remember anything, average first memory at 3.5 years old

Question 25

Erikson: TAIn In IdIn GeI

Answer 25

Trust, Autonomy, Initiative, Industry, Identity, Intimacy, Generosity, Inteigrity