M6L2 Maturation

Authoritative Parenting

Parents that both impose demands, but are also responsive to the needs/wants of their child. They can be negotiated with and are generally sensible.

Authoritarian Parenting

Parents that are quintessentially "strict" meaning that they create and impose rules on children and expect strict obedience of those rules.

Permissive Parenting

Parents that typically give into their child's desires. These parents generally have few demands on their children and often do not punish their child.

Neglectful Parenting

Parents that typically are not involved in the day-to-day lives of their child.

Basic trust

The idea that if someone is entrusted to do something such as a task, that the task will be completed as expected ie: trusting that someone will do what they promised they would do.

Self-concept

This describes how you view yourself based upon your previous actions and experiences with yourself. Basically, knowing who you are and what your beliefs are.

Adolescence

A period of time that is frequently identified from puberty to legal adulthood.

Puberty

A period of time in which the human body transitions from childhood to adulthood.

Primary sex characteristics

Refers to the main reproductive organs such as the ovaries and testes.

Secondary sex characteristics

Refers to the nonreproductive features on a male or female that can attract a mate such as a woman's breasts or a man's six-pack abs.

Menarche

Refers to a female's first menstrual bleeding. This marks the possible beginning of a woman's fertility.

Identity

Refers to the qualities, personality, worldview, and beliefs that make up the ideology of a person.

Spermarche

also known as semenarch it is a male's first ejaculation

Growth Spurt

a time of accelerated physical development

Attachment

The deep and permanent bond that ties one person to another despite distance or absence.

Temperament

How a person's nature affects or influences their behavior.

Secure Attachment

When a child securely knows that when a parent or caregiver leaves, that they can depend on their return.

Insecure Attachment

When a child does not securely know when a parent or caregiver leaves, that they will actually return causing anxiety.

Ambivalent Attachment

When a child has mixed feeling about something, and these mixed feelings result in an infant crying more and exploring less.

Critical period

It is a period of time during the maturation stage of an organism in which their nervous system is sensitive to certain environmental stimuli.

Imprinting

When a person experiences rapid phase-sensitive learning.

Sensitive Period

a time when an organism can most easily and quickly acquire a specific skill or characteristic

Anxious-Avoidant Attachment

Also known as resistant attachment babies show a combination of negative and positive responses to the parent

Disorganized Attachment

Babies show no consistent behavior when a parent is gone

Anxious-resistant Attachment

a baby is anxious when the parent is around, gone and also when they return

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

traumatic events that happen between the ages of 1-17 and can effect the child's mental and physical development

Erik Erikson

A philosopher who developed the stage theory in which he explored development throughout a person's lifecycle.

Trust v. Mistrust

The first stage in Erikson's stage theory which comprises the first year of life in which infants learn to trust or mistrust their caregivers.

Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt

The second stage in Erikson's stage theory in which children aged from one-year-to-around-three years develop a greater acumen for self-control.

Initiative vs. Guilt

The third stage in Erikson's stage theory in which children aged three-to-five start to assert their control and power over the world via playing with others and other social interaction.

Industry vs. Inferiority

The fourth stage in Erikson's stage theory in which children aged five- to-twelve learn to read, write, do math, and begin to think logically.

Identity vs. Role Confusion

The fifth stage of Erikson's stage theory in which children aged twelve-to-eighteen develop a sense of self and explore their independence.

Intimacy vs. Isolation

The sixth stage in Erikson's stage theory in which a person usually aged from nineteen-to-forty focuses on developing and maintaining intimate relationships with other people.

Generativity vs. Stagnation

The seventh stage in Erikson's stage theory in which people usually aged from forty-to sixty-five seek to "make their mark" or leave a legacy in the world. People at this stage generally are focused on accomplishing as much as possible in order to leave the world a better place.

Integrity vs. Despair

The eighth stage in Erikson's stage theory in which people usually aged from sixty-to-death reflect upon their lives and either are left with a feeling of satisfaction concerning their life events or feeling a sense of regret involving mistakes or missed opportunities.