Midterm Flashcards
(24 cards)
American developmental psychologist who studied attachment with the strange situation design
Mary ainsworth
Psychologist who studied dependency needs in rhesus monkeys
Harry Harlow
Developed objects relations/constancy and describe what this is
Margaret Mahler. Describes phase when the child understands the mother has a seperate identity and is truly a seperate individual
Developmental psychologist who studied parenting styles
Diana Baumrind
British psychologist who developed attachment theory
John bowlby
Psychologist who believed there is a predetermined biological timetable
G Stanley hall
Lasting psychological connectedness between humans
Attachment
Distinct seperate periods of development
Stages
Fear of strangers
Stranger anxiety
Occurs when abused and neglected child tends to abuse and neglect their own children
Cycle of violence hypothesis
Prejudice against the elderly
Ageism
Does not imply causality
Correlation
Involves extensive in depth studies of an individual
Case study
Fear of horses
Equinaphobia
Eeg and fmri are examples of
Psychophysical methods
Eriksons psychosocial theory emphasizes
Social and cultural environment
Average length of first time labor
8-12 hours
Phase when a particular development occurs most easily
Sensitive period
Dendrites atrophy and die
Synaptic pruning
Percentage of the human genome shared by all humans
99.9%
Influence of money of development
Nurture
Out of sight, out of mind
Object impermanence
One ovum is fertilized by one sperm and then splits to form two clusters
Monozygotic twins
Produced by many genes
Polygenic effects
