Learning Curve 4b. Infancy and Childhood
_____ developed the strange situation to investigate _____.
Ainsworth; attachment
This famous experiment involving raising monkeys with two artificial mothers was conducted by:
Harry and Margaret Harlow
The importance of schemas was MOST clearly highlighted by _____ theory.
Jean Piaget's cognitive development
A child's realization that others may have beliefs the child knows to be false BEST illustrates the development of:
a theory of mind
In Piaget's theory of cognitive development, a child's schemas are adjusted or expanded in:
accommodation, but not assimilation
Amir is concerned because he cannot remember events before he was about 4 years old. This is called infantile _____.
amnesia
In Piaget's theory, the process of fitting new experiences into existing schemas is called _____. The process of adjusting ideas to make room for new information is called _____.
assimilation; accommodation
Maturation refers mainly to _____ development.
biological
The Swiss scholar Jean Piaget made groundbreaking contributions to the study of _____ development.
cognitive
Christina is in the eighth grade and is taking pre-algebra. She is doing very well and will be studying algebra next year. Christina is MOST likely in which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
formal operational
Between the ages of 3 and 6 years, the number of neural connections increases MOST dramatically in the _____ lobe.
frontal
The orderly sequence of biological growth is called:
maturation
Nature is to nurture as _____ is to _____.
maturation; experience
Reflecting a use-it-or-lose it approach, unused synaptic connections are eliminated during infancy and childhood in a process called:
pruning