Developmental Psychology: Research Methods, Biological Influences & Early Attachment Patterns

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Psychology - Developmental Psychology

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What branch of psychology studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span?

Which research method looks at different age groups at the same time to understand life span changes?

What type of research involves studying the same people over a long period?

What are biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience?

What is the optimal period shortly after birth when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development?

What principle states that we perceive smooth, continuous patterns rather than discontinuous ones?

What are specific patterns of motor response triggered by specific patterns of sensory stimulation?

What is the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age?

What is the distress displayed by infants when a customary care provider departs?

What is the stimulation and reassurance derived from the physical touch of a caregiver?

What is the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life?

What type of parents set reasonable standards, enforce them firmly, and expect conformity, leading to self-confident children?

What type of parents are rigid and punitive, valuing unquestioning obedience from their children?

What term describes one's feelings of high or low self-worth?

According to Rogers, what is an attitude of total acceptance toward another person?

What is positive regard given only when the person is doing what the providers of positive regard wish?

What is the process of interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemas?

What is the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina?

What is the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived?

What environmental view stated that land should be protected for carefully managed development, leading to the National Parks System?

In Piaget's theory, what is the preoperational child's difficulty in taking another's point of view?

What is the belief that natural objects, phenomena, and the universe possess souls?

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