Unit 5 Prenatal and Child Development Review

nature

what you are born with

temperament

genetic basis, with environmental factors, relatively stable throughout lifetime, part of your lifelong personality

cognition

all mental processes- thinking, knowing, remembering

schemas

how we organize and interpret information

how do genetic and early experiences affect a person’s development?

impacts development and growth, where you live, oldest? youngest?

piaget

studied children + their cognitive development, he started noticing that kids were getting things wrong at the same ages, impacted when and how tasks are taught

assimilation

how we interpet new ideas using our current schemas

accomodation

how we change our schemas to add new info

sensorimotor(0-2)

gaining info via senses, object permanence(something still there even if out of sight or hearing), learning begins

preoperational(2-6/7)

language learning, NO conservation, egocentric (all about ME)

concrete operational(6/7-11)

relating to or involving specific people, things, or actions rather than general ideas or qualities; more logical thinking (the if/th

formal operational(12)

logical thinking, more abstract thought

stranger anxiety

fear of strangers, common around 8 months, “schema” for familiar faces

attachment

emotional tie due to physical closeness and care; upset by separation

imprinting

animal attaches to first object they see; humans don’t have this

authoritarian

so strict

permissive

child’s desires

authoritative

good balance

nurture

how you were raised