Infancy & Childhood

Specialized study of how an individual’s physical, social, emotional, moral, and intellectual development occur in sequential order as the individual matures

• Developmental psychology
• Maturation
• Schemas
• Socialization

The internally programmed growth of a child

• Maturation
• Learning
• Critical period
• Assimilation

Relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience 

• Learning
• Maturation
• Egocentric
• Critical period

The kind of verbal utterances in which words are left out, but the meaning is usually clear

• Telegraphic speech
• Schemas
• Imprinting
• Socialization

Mental representations of the world; conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world 

• Schemas
• Surrogate
• Socialization 
• Maturation

The process of fitting objects and experiences into one’s schemas

• Assimilation 
• Accommodation
• Conservation
• Schemas

The adjustment of one’s schemas to include newly observed events and experiences

• Accommodation
• Assimilation
• Schemas
• Surrogate

The principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed 

• Conservation
• Egocentric
• Assimilation
• Accommodation

A young child’s inability to understand another person’s perspective

• Egocentric
• Imprinting
• Socialization
• Learning

Inherited tendency of some newborn animals to follow the first moving object they see

• Imprinting
• Egocentric
• Surrogate
• Maturation