Ch 3 Infancy and Childhood Psych

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

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

• Schemas
• Surrogate
• Socialization 
• 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
• Democratic
• Authoritarian
• Authoritative 

Children’s play that involves assuming adult roles, thus enabling the child to experience different points of view 

• Role taking
• Imprinting
• Learning
• Conservation

Occurring automatically and involuntarily as a result of the nervous system's reaction to a stimulus

• reflexes 
• gross motor skills
• fine motor skills
• development

To take hold of somebody or something firmly, especially with the hand

• Startle Reflex
• Babinski 
• Grasping
• Rooting

A reflex when touched on the cheek, the infant turns the head looking for food

• rooting
• Babinski
• sucking
• grasping