Psychology 110 Terms & Vocabulary

Topic 5:  (Corresponding to Chapter 9):

        nAture   nurture   maturation   critical period    continuum   stage   cross-sectional study   longitudinal study

        cohort effects   developmental niche   ethnotheories   prenatal development   germinal period

        zygote   embryonic period   embryo    fetal period     fetus   teratogens   fetal alcohol syndrome

        synaptic pruning   reflexes   childhood    adolescence   puberty   growth spurt   adulthood   middle age   menopause  

        male climacteric  late adulthood   programmed theory    damage theory   Hayflick limit   attachment   Bowlby  

        Lorenz   imprinting   Harlow & Zimmerman   surrogate-mom study   Ainsworth   strange situation

        secure attachment   avoidant attachment   anxious/ambivalent attachment   parenting style   Baumrind   permissive

       permissive-indifferent   permissive-indulgent   authoritarian   authoritative   Piaget   assimilation   accommodation

       schemas     sensorimotor stage   object permanence   preoperational stage   egocentrism   animism   reversibility 

        concrete operations   formal operations   adolescent egocentrism   personal fable   imaginary audience   

        Baillergeron et al.   information processing approach   attention span   memory   strategies

               (And from the lectures):

        basic trust   identity   Marcia   types of identity statuses   crisis   identity diffusion   identity moratorium

        identity achievement   identity foreclosure   independence   Heinroth   Hess   Skeels & Dye orphanage studies

        Harlow's monkey studies   Ainsworth's Uganda study   undiscriminating phase   discriminative phase

        discriminating at a distance    phase of active initiative   stranger fear/anxiety   mom as base of exploration

        attachment characteristics   adaptation   reflex actions   primary circular reactions   secondary circular reactions

        tertiary circular reactions   coordination   mental invention    transductive reasoning   3-mountain problem

        conservation   (non-)reversibility   class inclusion problem   moral rigidity   Bever   Keysar   inverted-U function