Human Development Vocab

  • Developmental psychology 
  • Nature-nurture issue in development
  • Continuity vs. discontinuity issue
  • Maturation
  • Prenatal stages of development…zygote, embryo, fetus
  • Prenatal risk…teratogens, critical period, fetal alcohol syndrome
  • Newborn’s vision and other senses
  • Reflexes and motor skills…grasping, rooting, sucking, Babinsky, etc.
  • Piaget…cognitive development
  • Schemas
  • Assimilation
  • Accommodation
  • Sensorimotor period
  • Object permanence
  • Evaluating Piaget…new views/research
  • Renee Baillargeon’s research
  • Preoperational period…animism, artificialism
  • Conservation
  • Reversibility and complementarity
  • Concrete operations
  • Formal operational period
  • Modifying Piaget
  • Information-processing
  • Development and memory
  • Culture and cognitive development…VYGOTSKY
  • Primary abilities
  • Secondary abilities
  • Individual variations in cognitive development
  • Social and emotional development…forming a bond
  • Temperament….easy babies, difficult babies, slow-to-warm-up babies
  • Genetic and cultural contributions to temperament
  • Attachment…HARLOW
  • Forming an attachment, variations an attachment
  • Strange Situation…AINSWORTH
  • Secure attachment
  • Anxious insecure attachment…avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized
  • Insecure attachment
  • Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocil development…chart pg. 409
  • Socialization
  • Authoritarian, permissive, authoritative parents…BAUMRIND
  • Gender roles
  • Puberty
  • Identity crisis
  • Kohlberg’s stages of Moral reasoning…preconventional, conventional, post-conventional (1-6)
  • Criticisms of Kohlberg…GILLIGAN
  • Early, middle, late adulthood…cognitive and social changes
  • Midlife transition
  • Androgynous
  • Terminal drop
  • Cross-sectional, longitudinal, cohort-sequentail research
  • Cohort effects
  • Mortality effect, history effect, testing effect
  • Twin studies