psych ch 9 liefspan development

What is the name for the process by which a child changes their schemata based on new information?

Accomodation

According to ________, lifespan development encompasses eight stages and at each stage we encounter a psychosocial crisis that must be resolved.

Erik Erikson

________ are concepts (mental models) that are used to help us categorize and interpret information.

Schemata

According to Ainsworth, babies who demonstrate proximity to their mother and separation anxiety when apart are showing indications of:

attachment

Which of the following is NOT one of the 5 stages of grief confronted by dying persons?

begging

Harry Harlow demonstrated that attachment in rhesus monkeys was related to

contact comfort

What does nature refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?

genes and biology

Age-specific approximations of when a certain skill or ability should first occur in normal development are called developmental ________.

milestones

Madeline is seven months old. Her mother is eating a cookie and Madeline wants some. Her mother hides the cookie under a napkin, but Madeline is not fooled. She knows the cookie is still there. What does this exemplify?

object permanence

Piaget's stages of cognitive development are, in order of increasing age,

sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

Menarche is the term used to describe

the first menstruation

Which figure in psychology first asserted that our personality as adults is shaped by experiences in childhood?

Sigmund Freud

How do toddlers in the Aché culture of Paraguay differ from toddlers in the United States?

They walk later than U.S. toddlers.

Which is the first stage in Erik Erikson's psychosocial development theory?

Trust vs. mistrust

An adult who chooses not to park in a handicap space in order to avoid a ticket and fine is operating at the _________ level of Kohlberg's theory.

preconventional