Unit 7 - Vocab. List #1 Flashcards
ELizabeth Kubler Ross
Erik Erikson
Formulated a theory that peoples personalities develop in 8 psycho-social stages
Jean Piaget
Researched Cognitive development with children. Thought they learned through assimilation and accommodation. 4 stages of child cognitive development.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Agreed with Piaget on the development of moral reasoning. Led to three basic levels of moral thinking; Preconventional, Conventional, and Postconventional
Lev Vygotsky
continuous learning process of children. The environment and social interaction continuously impact them.
Diana Baumrind
Came up with parenting styles
Mary Ainsworth
Dev. of Attatchment theory
Continuous Model of Development
Authoritarian (extra r=Really Strict)
Parenting style that uses threats or force. They impose rules and expect obedience. Coercive.
Authoritative
Parents that are confrontation. Are both demanding and responsive. Expert control by setting rules but also open to discussion
Permissive
Parents that are unrestraining. Make few demands, limits, or punishments.
Babbling
Around 4 months, where an infant spontaneously utter various sounds at first unrelated to the household language
Telegraphic Speech
Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram - “go car” - mostly nouns and verbs
Sensorimotor Stage
From birth to nearly age 2 where infants know the world in terms of sensory impressions and motor activities
Preoperational Stage
From 2 to 6/7 when a child learns to use language but does not yet understand the mental operations of concrete logic
Concrete Operational Stage
From 7 to 11 years old when children gain the mental operations to think logically about concrete events
Formal Operational Stage
From 12 onward when people begin to think logically about abstract events
Object Permanence
The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
Egocentrism
The preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view
Teratogens
Chemicals and viriuses that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
Scaffold
A framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking
Imprinting
The process by which animals develop strong attachments during early life
Zone of Proximal Development
The zone between what a child can and can’t do - what a child can do with help
