Thursday, January 19, 2017

Chapter 7 Vocabulary: Lifespan Development

Preoperational Stage: reasoning and thinking about the ways that were not possible in earlier stages.

Intuition: primitive reasoning based on feelings

Centration: the tendency to focus on just one aspect of something seen

Conservation: refers to an ability to follow transformations of viewed objects

Egocentrism: an inability to take another person's perspective

Windows of Opportunity: time frames for optimizing the development of critical skills

Metacognition: they think about what they are thinking and focus on their inward thoughts

Metamemory: they think about what they remember

Phonolgy: refers to the sounds that make up words

Semantics: refers to the meaning of words

Preconventional Morality: Kohlberg's first level of moral development

Initiative versus Guilt: Erikson's description of the next stage of social-emotional development

Democratic parenting styles: giving choices and encouraging children

Authoritarian parenting styles: tends to be controlling and corrective

Permissive parenting styles: tends to let children control situations, making the decisions with few limits or controls

Gender Identity: having a sense about being a boy or a girl

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder: behavioral disorder that can become evident during preschool

Autism Spectrum Disorder: broad term that describes a developmental disability that leads to problems with social behaviors and communication

Aspergers Disorders: mild form of autism

Autistic Disorder: more severe variation of autism




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