Developmental Psychology
KEY TERMS
Developmental psychologist
Nature versus nurture
Cross-sectional research
Longitudinal research
Teratogens
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Newborn reflexes
Attachment
Harry Harlow’s attachment research
Mary Ainsworth’s strange situation
Secure attachments
Avoidant attachments
Anxious/ambivalent attachments
Authoritarian parents
Permissive parents
Authoritative parents
Oral stage
Anal stage
Phallic stage
Genital stage
Erik Erikson’s psychosocial developmental theory
Trust versus mistrust
Autonomy versus shame and doubt
Initiative versus guilt
Industry versus inferiority
Identity versus role confusion
Intimacy versus isolation
Generativity versus stagnation
Integrity versus despair
Jean Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory
Schemata
Assimilation
Accommodation
Sensorimotor stage
Object permanence
Preoperational stage
Egocentric
Concrete operations
Concepts of conservation