Final Flashcards
(42 cards)
A process in which people express their genetic tendencies by finding environments that match and enhance those tendencies
Active niche-picking
Standardized measures of learning connected with academic subjects
Achievement test
The emotional bond that develops between an infant and caregivers between an infant and caregivers during the first year of life
Attachment
Changes in the way we think, understand and reason about the world
Cognitive development
The influence of genetic inheritance on children’s development
Nature
Tests used to assess brain function
Neuropsychological tests
The influence of the environment on children’s development
Nurture
A process in which professionals critique an article and make suggestions for improvement before it is published
Peer review
The tendency to see and understand something in the way you expected
Perceptual bias
Assessments based on an individual’s projections of aspects of their own personality onto ambiguous external stimuli such as an inkblot
Projective tests
Changes in the overall nature of what you are examining
Qualitative changes
A change in the amount or quantity of what you are measuring
Quantitative changes
The help more experienced people give to help kids go beyond their present level of capabilities
Scaffolding
The same pathways may lead to different development outcomes
Multifinality
Different development pathways may result in the same outcome
Equifinality
Changing your mental schemas so that the new experiences
Accommodation
Freud second stage of development during which toddlers sexual energy is focused on the anus toilet training and control our major issues
Anal stage
Fitting new experiences into extent existing mental schema
Assimilation
The theory developed by John B Watson that focused on environmental control of observable behavior
Behaviorism
The process by which a stimulus the unconditioned stimulus that naturally evokes a certain response the unconditioned response is paired repeatedly with a neutral stimulus eventually the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus and events the same response now called the conditioned response
Classical conditioning
The third stage in Piaget’s theory in which children between six and 12 years of age develop logical thinking that is still not abstract
Concrete operations
The part of the personality of that contends with the reality of the world and controls the basic drives
Ego
The inability to see the world from the perspective of people other than oneself
Egocentrism
Settings that the child never enters external to the child but which affect the child’s development nevertheless such as parents place of work
Exosystem