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1. accommodation adapting our schemas to incorporate new information

2. Anxious Ambivalent Insecure Attachment

child will be anxious about indecent exploration even when the caregiver is present when the care giver leaves the child will be extremely distressed the child will be ambivalent when the caregiver returns and will seek touch and comfort from caregiver but will be resentful

3. Anxious Avoidant Insecure Attachment

child will avoid or ignore caregiver child will show little emotion to the caregiver's departure or return child will not explore much no matter who is present strangers won't be treat4ed much differently than caregiver

4. assimilation

interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

5. attachment

an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation

6. Authoritarian

parenting style parent demands obedience and controls all the child's behaviors through punishment

7. Authoritative

parenting style parent establishes clear limits but provides explanations and reasons for the rules and punishments there is much communication between parent and child offers child love and warmth

8. basic trust

according to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers

9. concrete operational stage

Piaget Theory from 6 to 11 the stage of cognitive development in which the child gains the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

10. conservation

the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the form of objects

11. critical period

an optimal period early in life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development

12. developmental psychology

a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

13. egocentrism

Piaget Theory the pre operational child's difficulty taking others views

14. embryo

the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month

15. fetal alcohol syndrome

physical and cognitive disabilities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, signs include a small, out of proportion head and abnormal facial features

16. fetus

the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

17. formal operational stage

Piaget Theory stage of cognitive development beginning at age 12 during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

18. habituation

decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. as infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to visual stimulus their interest wanes and they look away sooner

19. imprinting

the process by which certain animals form strong attachments during an early-life critical period

20. maturation

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

21. object permanence

the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

22. Permissive Indulgent

parenting style parent provides few expectations and rules and allows the child to make their own decisions parents do so with much love and adoration for their children

23. Permissive Neglectful

parenting style the parent is uninvolved in the child's life and do not set limitations their children simply because they could care less what the child did or did not do

24. preoperational stage

Piaget Theory from 2 to 6 or 7 a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

25. schema

a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

26. Secure attachment

27. self concept 28. sensorimotor

stage

29. stranger anxiety 30. temperament 31. teratogens

32. theory of mind

33. zygote

child will freely explore while caregiver is present child is upset when caregiver leaves and is happy to see them return will not engage in environment without caregiver child will wish to make contact with caregiver child draws strength from caregiver

all out thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"

Piaget theory the stage (birth to 2 years) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities

the fear of strangers that infants commonly display at about 8 months and older

a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

"monster maker" agents that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm

people's ideas about their own and other's mental states about their feelings, perception, and thoughts and the behaviors these might precede

the fertilized egg

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