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| Most satisfying & enduring with similar interests and values, sharing emotions, & material support & intimate self-disclouser. Will last longer when well educated & marry after 20 but twice as likely to divorce. |
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| decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. Seeing something repeatedly infant loses interest, when something new is added they will stare longer. |
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| adapting one's current understanding to incorporate new info |
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| interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schema's |
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| Piaget's theory, the child in the preoperational stage has difficulty taking another point of view |
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| during the concrete operational children do not think mass, volume, & number remain the same despite change in shape |
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| an emotional tie with another person; shown by children by seeking closeness to caregiver & chowing distress on separation |
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| a sense that the world is predictable & reliable |
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| authoritative, Authoritarian, & permissive |
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| knowing that things continue to exist when not perceived |
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| a bond that teaches the child to trust you, communicate their feelings & thrust other people |
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| shows no preference between care-giver or a stranger. result of abuse or neglect |
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| a concept or framework that organizes & interprets info |
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| ages 3-6 it is sprouting more rapidly in the frontal lobes. areas with thinking, memory, & lang are the last to develop |
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| fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age |
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| study physical, cognitive, & social changes throughout the human life cycle |
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| experiencing the world through touch and action |
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| ages 2-7 where a child learns to use lang but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic |
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| Concrete operational stage |
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| 6-11 years old when children gain mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events |
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| Before age 9, they either obey to avoid punishment or to gain concrete rewards |
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| early adolescence, cares for others & upholds laws & social rules simply because they are laws & rules |
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| Postconventional morality |
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| affirms people's agreed upon rights of follows what one personally perceives as basic ethical principles |
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| culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, & retirement |
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| 2 weeks after the egg is fertilized through the second month of human development |
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| development of a human, 9 weeks after conception to birth |
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| one's ability to reason speedily & abstract; tends to decrease during late adulthood |
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| Crystallized intelligence |
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| one's accumulated knowledge & verbal skills; tends to increase with age |
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| Age among which emotional instability in the highest |
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| self-recognition starting around 6 months when they react to reflection to touch image as if it were another child |
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| primary sex characteristics |
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| the body structures that make sexual reproduction possible |
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| secondary sex characteristics |
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| the body structures such as female breasts & hips, male voice quality, & body hair |
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| impose rules & expect obedience |
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| both demanding and responsive, sets rulse but explains why |
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| give into child's desires, makes few demands, & use little punishment |
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| baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek to turn and look for food |
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| when the baby feels like they are falling or hear a loud noise they will extend their arms, legs, fingers, & arc their back |
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| when palm is touched the child's fingers will curl around the object |
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| formed during the critical period (a period after birth)when certain events must take place to create proper development |
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| people's ideas about their own & others mental states- about their feelings, perceptions, & thoughts & the behavior these might predict |
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| relationship between age & level of life satisfaction |
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| 20's people move out, get married, & get a job. Most divorces happen in the 20's. The older people became the happier they were because they could look back & be happy. Also things become more average. |
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| Issue of stability or change |
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Both happen through life, stability enables us to depend on other, provides identity,& motivates concern for healthy children.
Change motivates concern for present influences, sustains out hope for a better future, & lets us adapt & grow with experience |
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| Revolutionized understanding of children's minds, believed children went through stages of comprehension |
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| each stage of has it's own psychosocial task, believed we must go past one issue to gain perspective on life |
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| created the 3 basic levels of moral thinking. Believed as our thinking matures so does out behavior |
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