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