Developmental Psychology Debates: Nature vs. Nurture and Cognitive Development Stages

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What is the debate about whether genes or environmental factors contribute more to a person's being?

What is the debate about whether development progresses smoothly or shifts abruptly?

What is the debate about whether early personality traits persist through life or change as we age?

What is the term for the prenatal human organism from fertilization to about two weeks?

What is the term for the prenatal human organism from about two weeks to two months after conception?

What is the term for the prenatal human organism from about two months after conception to birth?

What is the term for any substance that harms the embryo or fetus?

What is a concept or mental representation that guides the way you make sense of new information?

What is the process of making sense of new information by sorting it into already existing schemas?

What is the process of making sense of new information by revising or creating new schemas?

Who is the theorist that developed a series of stages in which an individual passes during cognitive development?

What is the first stage in Piaget's theory of development, from birth to about age two, when babies understand the world through sensory experience?

What is the ability to realize that an object continues to exist even when you can't see, hear, or otherwise sense it?

What is the stage from about age 2 to about age 7, when children can use language and other symbols for real objects but still can't complete many mental operations?

What is the inability to understand a situation from a point of view other than one's own?

What is the understanding of the thoughts, feelings, intentions, and other mental activities of oneself and others?

What is the term for assigning living qualities to nonliving objects?

What is the term for focusing on a single aspect, feature, or dimension when asked to solve a problem or classify objects?

What is the understanding that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in form?

What is the stage from about age 7 to about age 11, in which children acquire the ability to think logically about concrete things?

What is the stage beginning around age 11 and lasting through adulthood, in which the person becomes able to think logically about abstract things?

What is the term for adolescents' belief that their lives are continuously being watched and evaluated by other people?

What is the common way of thinking among adolescents in which they believe themselves to be special or invulnerable?

Who argued that social interaction was the primary force behind cognitive development?

What is the process by which a person learns new words, ideas, and ways of thinking by interacting with a more advanced person who provides decreasing levels of help?

What is the term for the range of learning just above what a child can do alone?

What is an emotional tie that is enduring in nature and specific in its focus?

Who found that baby monkeys prefer a wire 'mom' covered in cloth over a wire 'mom' that was bare, even when the bare mom provided the monkey with food?

What is a relationship in which an infant obtains both comfort and confidence from the presence of his or her caregiver?

What is the relationship in which, after a brief separation, infants want to be held but are difficult to console?

What are attachments marked by discomfort over, or resistance to, being close to others?

What is the type of attachment that is marked by an infant's inconsistent reactions to the caregiver's departure and return?

What is the basic emotional responsiveness that characterizes a person throughout their lifespan?

What are individual differences in the threshold and intensity of emotional experience?

What is the exercise of voluntary control over the self to bring the self into line with preferred standards?

What is a child's general responsiveness marked by positive mood, easy adaptation to change, and regularity and predictability in patterns of eating, sleeping, and elimination?

What is a child's general responsiveness marked by a more negative mood, intense responses, slow adaptation to change, and irregular patterns of eating, sleeping, and elimination?

What is the temperamental profile in which the child is inactive and moody and displays mild passive resistance to new routines and experiences?

What is an approach to parenting in which parents require children to obey unquestionable strict rules?

What is an approach to parenting in which parents place minimal demands on children and allow them to run their own lives with a high level of affection?

What is an approach to parenting in which parents set rules, but also explain and negotiate those rules with their children?

What is the parenting style where parents make few demands, with little structure or monitoring, and show little interest or emotional support?

What is the developmental period that encompasses the transition from childhood to adulthood?

What is important when it comes to education, discipline, charitableness, responsibility, orderliness, and ways of interacting with authority figures during adolescence?

What is important for learning cooperation, for finding the road to popularity, for inventing styles of interaction among people of the same age during adolescence?

How do both relationships with peers and parents impact adolescents' view of themselves?

What is the recently proposed developmental stage during which the person gradually moves from adolescence to adulthood, typically during the late teens and twenties?

According to Freud, what characterizes a healthy adult?

According to Erikson, what do individuals in early and middle adulthood strive for?

What are Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development?

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