Developmental Psychology Questions

5) social contract (rules are agreements)6) universal ethical principle (inner conscience)

-physical (maturation)-socioemotional (attachment)-cognitive (thinking)-moral-sexual-psychosocial (relationships)-end of life

Authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved, authoritative

3) good girl/boy (doing what will please others)4) law and order (rules are inflexible)

foreclosure, identity diffusion, moratorium, identity achievement

1) punishment avoidance and obedience (morality determined by consequences)2) exchange of favors

Parents are demanding, but responsive and understanding

sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

2-7 years; imagination, conservation, egocentrism, and animism

Child Education Laws: skilled/educated work force Child Labor Laws: health/safety concerns

Parents should know that large-scale studies show __________ (high, medium, low, no) correlation between autism and vaccines.

Vygotsky saw __________ as the foundation for all higher cognitive processes.

X-rays of epiphyses enable doctors to estimate children's __________.

Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) prompts the thyroid gland in the neck to release __________, which is necessary for brain development and for growth hormone (GH) to have its full impact on body size.

This is the term for when adults aid learning adjusting support to child's performance level.

This region of the brain is linked to balance and control of body movement.

Piaget called children's self-directed utterances __________ speech, reflecting his belief that young children have difficulty taking the perspectives of others.

At the rear and base of the brain is the __________.

Children lack ______, the ability to grasp that an object's physical characteristics remain the same, even when appearance changes

The most extensive U.S. federal program for early intervention with at-risk preschoolers is known as _____.