Psychology Module 11

Adapting current schemas to incorporate new information

• Imprinting

• Maturation

• Accomodation

• Assimilation

Seeing new experiences in terms of existing schemas

• Imprinting

• Maturation

• Accomodation

• Assimilation

A subfield of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

• Developmental Psychology

• Object Permanence

• Authoritarian Parenting

• Preoperational Stage

Physical & cognitive abnormalities that appear in children whose mothers drank heavily during pregnancy

• Egocentrism

• Imprinting

• Schemas

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

According to Piaget, a child who cannot see another person's perspective or understand symbolism is

• Attached

• Teratogen

• Egocentric

• Zygote

Match the following.

• Concrete Operational

• Age 12-adulthood. Can think logically about abstract concepts and things they haven't experienced.

• Formal Operational Stage

• Age 2-7. Can learn to use language but unable to think logically

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Birth to 2 years old. Use their sensory impressions and motor activities to learn.

• Pre-operational Stage

• 6-7 years old. Children can think logically about concrete events

Put these in the correct order from birth to adulthood.

• Formal Operational

• Concrete Operational

• Preoperational

• Sensorimotor

All mental processes associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering.

• Temperament

• Genes

• Accommodation

• Cognition

Mental frameworks that organize what we know and how we interpret information.

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Schemas

• Critical Period

Match the following parenting styles.

• Imposing rules, expecting obedience

• Permissive Parenting

• Has rules, explains rules, responsive

• Authoritative Parenting

• Uses little punishment, has few demands

• Authoritarian Parenting