Developmental Theory: Piaget's Cognitive Stages, Kohlberg's Moral Development & Prenatal Growth

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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?
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Who proposed that children pass through four discrete age-linked stages of cognitive development?
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What are the four stages of cognitive development according to Piaget?
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Who developed the theory of moral development?
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What are the three stages of moral development according to Kohlberg?
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Who developed the stages of psychological development focusing on social relationships?
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What are Erik Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development?
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What is the term for a fertilized egg?
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What is the developing human organism called from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month?
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What is the term for the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth?
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What are agents that can reach the embryo during prenatal development and cause harm?
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What syndrome is marked by a small, disproportioned head and lifelong brain abnormalities, occurring in 1/800 infants?
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What are biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience?
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What is the term for the average age of earliest conscious memory, which is 3.5 years?
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What term describes all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?
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According to Piaget, what is the driving force behind our intellectual progression?
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What is a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information?
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What is the process of interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemas?
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What is the process of adapting current understanding (schemas) to incorporate new information?
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What stage, according to Piaget, involves babies knowing and exploring the world through their senses and actions, where object permanence develops?
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In which stage does a child learn to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic, and conservation develops?
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Who conducted an experiment showing children a model of a room and hiding a model toy in it, demonstrating differences in spatial understanding between 2.5 and 3-year-olds?
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What term describes the preoperational child's difficulty in taking another's point of view?
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What is the term for people's ideas about their own and others' mental states, including feelings, perceptions, and thoughts?
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Who demonstrated that children are surprised when a Band-Aid box contains pencils, illustrating a lack of understanding of others' beliefs?
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In which stage do children gain the operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events, such as understanding that changes in form do not mean changes in quantity?
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In which stage do people begin to think logically about abstract concepts, such as hypothetical propositions and deducing consequences?
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What is the term for the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age?
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What term describes an emotional tie to another person, often seen in young children seeking closeness to their caregiver?
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What study by Harry and Margaret Harlow demonstrated the importance of body contact in forming attachments, using infant monkeys and artificial mothers?
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What is the term for an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development?
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What is the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life?
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What experiments by Mary Ainsworth involved observing mother-infant pairs at home and later in a strange situation to study attachment?
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Who conducted a study randomly assigning temperamentally difficult children to groups to assess the impact of maternal training on attachment security?
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What term, according to Erikson, describes a sense that the world is reliable and predictable, often developed in securely attached children?
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What term describes the years spent morphing from child to adult, starting with sexual maturity and ending with social achievement of independent adult status?
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What are the reproductive organs and external genitalia collectively known as?
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What are nonreproductive sexual traits, such as breasts and hips in females and voice quality and body hair in males, called?
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What are the puberty landmarks for males and females, including first ejaculation and first menstruation?
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What is the term for the stage where most children's morality focuses on self-interest, obeying rules to avoid punishment or gain rewards?
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What stage of morality focuses on caring for others and following laws and social rules because they are rules?
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In which stage are actions judged 'right' because they flow from people's rights or self-defined ethical principles?
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What is our sense of self, which Erikson describes as the adolescent's task to solidify by testing and integrating various roles?
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What is the 'we' aspect of our self-concept, the part of our answer to 'Who am I?' that comes from our group memberships?
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What is the ability to form close, loving relationships, a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood according to Erikson?
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Who used beepers to sample the daily experiences of American teens, finding them unhappiest when alone and happiest with friends?
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What term describes the period from the late teens to mid-twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence?
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What is the term for the cessation of menstruation, typically occurring around age 50?
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What is the average lifespan for males and females?
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What happens to sensory abilities as people age, particularly in terms of light reaching the retina?
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What changes occur in the brain by age 80, including weight reduction and cell loss?
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Who showed that younger adults consistently surpass older adults in memory recall after watching videos of people introducing themselves?
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What type of intelligence involves accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, which tends to increase with age?
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What type of intelligence involves the ability to reason speedily and abstractly, which tends to decrease during late adulthood?
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What is the term for a stage of struggle and regret, often associated with the midlife period, though studies show no evidence of distress peaking in midlife?
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What is the term for the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement?
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