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 |