vocab psych 13

adapting our current understanding (schemes) to incorporate new information

• Conservation

• Accommodation

• Attachment

Children who are ambivalently attached tend to be extremely suspicious of strangers. These children display considerable distress when separated from a parent or caregiver, but do not seem reassured or comforted by the return of the parent.

• Avoidant-insecure attachment

• Ambivalent-insecure attachment

interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemes.

• Accommodation

• Attachment

• Assimilation

an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation.

• Assimilation

• Attachment

• Accommodation

Authoritarian parenting is an extremely strict parenting style. It places high expectations on children with little responsiveness.

• Authoritarian parenting style

• Authoritative parenting style

In this parenting style, the parents are nurturing, responsive, and supportive, yet set firm limits for their children.

• Authoritarian parenting style

• Authoritative parenting style

A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors.

• Autism spectrum disorder

• Cognition

• Schema

Children with avoidant attachment styles tend to avoid parents and caregivers. This avoidance often becomes especially pronounced after a period of absence. They may not reject attention, but they do not seek it.

• Ambivalent-insecure attachment

• Avoidant-insecure attachment

according to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers.

• Imprinting

• Basic trust

• Conservation

all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

• Conservation

• Self-concept

• Cognition