Lifespan development keywords.
Nature vs nurture
Heredity vs experience.
Critical period
Window when certain learning is easiest.
Attachment
Emotional bond with caregiver.
Secure attachment
Distress then comforted on reunion.
Piaget sensorimotor
Object permanence develops.
Piaget preoperational
Egocentrism; symbolic thought.
Piaget concrete operational
Conservation, logical concrete thinking.
Piaget formal operational
Abstract and hypothetical reasoning.
Schema
Mental framework for organizing info.
Assimilation
Fit new info into existing schema.
Accommodation
Change schema for new info.
Erikson stages
Psychosocial conflicts across life.
Parenting styles
Authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, neglectful.
Identity vs role confusion
Adolescent Erikson stage.