Module 11: 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

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

Parents attempt to control, shape, and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of children and adolescents in accordance with a set code of conduct 

• Authoritarian
• Authoritative 
• Democratic
• Permissive

Children and adolescents participate in decisions affecting their lives

• Authoritarian
• Authoritative 
• Permissive
• Laissez faire

Children and adolescents have the final say; parents are less controlling and have a non-punishing, accepting attitude toward children

• Laissez faire (permissive)

• Democratic

• Authoritarian

• Authoritative