Psychology Exam #4
Nature
Hereditary
Nurture
Environment
Zygote
Fertilized egg
Placenta
Organ that develops between embryo and fetus
Fetus
Embryo after the eighth week
Prenatal period
Developmental period before birth
Teratogens
Toxic substances that damage developing organism
Contact comfort
Physical contact
Mary Ainsworth
Attachment style, strange situation
Schemas
Mental structures that guide your representation of concepts and events
Piagets stages of cognitive development
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
Conservation
Physical change of substance doesnt change amount of substance
Object permanance
Things continue to exist even if they cant be sensed
Abstract thought
Fourth stage, formal operational
Abstract words
Hope, trust
Tempermant
Inherited (wired in) pattern of personality and behavior
Permissive parents
No rules, immature kids
Authoritative parents
Less likely to use physical punishment
Authoritarian parents
Use physical contact
Erikson
Extended Freuds theory from 5 stages to 8
Menarche
Onset of mensturation
Preconventional morality stage 1
Reward and punishment
Field
Messages for premature babies, they gree and gained weight faster
Bowlby
Human attachment is innate
Language acqusition device (lad)
Structure in brain innately programmed with some of the fundamental rules if grammar