Developmental Psych

The internally programmed growth of a child

• Development

• Maturation

• Capacities

• Reflexes

The kind of verbal utterances in which words are left out, but the meaning is clear

• Baby Talk

• Hulk Speech

• Telegraphic Speech

• Kevin Words

A child's realization that an object exists even when he or she cannot see or touch it

• Object Permanence

• Imagination

• Conservation

• Representational Thought

The intellectual ability of a child to picture something in his or her mind

• Object Permanence

• Imagination

• Conservation

• Representational Thought

The principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed

• Object Permanence

• Imagination

• Conservation

• Representational Thought

A young child's inability to understand another person's perspective

• Imprinted

• Spoiled

• Egocentric

• Role Taking

Inherited tendency of newborn animals to follow the first moving object they see

• Imprinting

• Critical Period

• Egocentric

• Socialization

The process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born and will live

• Imprinting

• Critical Period

• Experience

• Socialization

A specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned

• Accommodation

• Critical Period

• Experience

• Assimilation

A conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world

• Language

• Schemas

• Egocentric

• Symbols