Developmental Psychology
Chapter 3-5
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| ability to use accumulated knowledge in appropriate ways | ||
| feelings of emptiness and loss felt sometimes by mothers and fathers when children leave home | ||
| study of death and dying | ||
| ability to generate a new hypothesis | ||
| most common form of senile dementia | ||
| stages of cognitive development | ||
| attachement | ||
| a common reaction among infants when the mother is absent | ||
| the process of learning the rules of behavior on one's culture | ||
| the principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance does | ||
| period when skill and abilities are most easily learned | ||
| period when thinking becomes abstract | ||
| moral development | ||
| Psychosocial stages | ||
| Imprinting | ||
| facility designed fro the special needs of the dying | ||
| major transitional period in mens lives | ||
| memory loss, forgetfulness, disorientation and altered personality | ||
| discrimination against the elderly | ||
| acting in a way that copies or is similar to the behavior of one's peers | ||
| a small group within a larger group | ||
| internally programmed growth of a child | ||
| when a child knows that an object exist even when it cannot be seen | ||
| automatic movement patterns found in newborns | ||
| believe that crisis is involved in adolescent identity | ||
| combines traditional male and female roles | ||
| reached between 18-30 years old | ||
| denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance | ||
| focused on adult males | ||
| heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and arthritis | ||
| often achieved in adolescence | ||
| stoke the bottom of an infants foot and their toes flail outward | ||
| experimented with monkeys to discover that they will choose comfort over nourishment | ||
| sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational | ||
| achieved during the concrete operational stage | ||
| 20, 40, 65 |