developmental psychology

He believed that the human mind develops through a series of stages. For him, our minds are always trying to make order out of what we take in through our senses.

• Raymund Catell

• Jean Piaget

• Erik Erikson

• Sigmund Freud

These are concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information.

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Crystallized Intelligence

• Schema

Taking in new information and fitting it into existing schemas

• Crystallized intelligence

• Fluid intelligence

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

Changing and revising existing schema in face of new experiences or new information.

• Crystallized intelligence

• Fluid intelligence

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

This takes place from birth to roughly age 2. In this stage, babies ―take in‖ the world through their senses and interactions.

• Sensorimotor stage

• Pre-operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

• Formal operational stage

These parents believe children should make and learn from their own mistakes; they provide few rules.

• Permissive

• Authoritative

• Uninvolved

• Authoritarian

Age where babies start to gain self-awareness

• 3 months old

• 4 months old

• 5 months old

• 6 months old

Refers to the process by which a child learns to interact with others around them.

• Physical Development

• Social Development

• Cognitive Development

• Spiritual Development

An experiment devised to study the attachment between an infant and her mother

• Strange Situation

• Monkey Experiment

• Sensitive Period

• Imprinting

The proponent of an experiment called Strange Situation

• Sigmund Freud

• Mary Ainsworth

• Harry Harlow

• Erik Erikson