Psych Chapter 9

Piaget described human thought, or intelligence, in terms of the concepts of ______________ and accommodation

Assimilation

__________is best described as the process of responding to a new stimulus through existing cognitive structures.

Assimilation

According to ethologist Konras Lorenz, a__________is a period of time when instinctive response can be elicited by a particular stimulus

Critical Period

The__________is the final stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

Formal operational stage

The _____________is the first stage of prenatal development, during which the dividing mass of cells has not been implanted in the uterine wall

Germinal Stage

The most dramatic gains in heigh and weight occur during _________

Prenatal development

According to Piaget, the__________is the second stage of cognitive development in children

Preoperational Stage

__________are parents who generally leave their children to themselves.

Uninvolved parents

Newborns use the__________to avoid painful stimuli.

Withdrawl reflex

According to Erik Erikson, ________ is the stage of intimacy versus isolation

Young adulthood

In the context of cognitive development,__________is the creation of new ways of responding to objects or looking at the world.

accommodation

According to Kohlberg, postconventional reasoning usually emerges in _____.

adolescence

According to Erik Erikson, adolescents who do not develop__________may experience role diffusion.

ego identity

According to psychologist Erik Erikson, late adulthood is the stage of _____.

ego integrity versus despair

Vygotsky's sociocultural theory focuses on the:

influence of teachers on children's cognitive development.

According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage of child development is dominated by:

learning to coordinate perception of the self and of the environment with motor activity.

In the context of adolescence, the _____ underlies showing off and risk taking.

personal fable

According to Ainsworth, securely attached children:

seek interaction with their mother upon reunion after separation.

In Piaget's stages of cognitive development of children, the__________comes to a close with the acquisition of the basics of language at about age two.

sensorimotor stage

According to a research by Kohlberg, children at the preconventional level base their moral judgments on _____.

the consequences of behavior