PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Prenatal Development, Egocentrism
26 Nov 2013
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Psychology key terms and concepts chapter 12. Accommodation: the process by which new experiences cause existing schemas to change. Adolescence: the period of development and gradual transition between childhood and adulthood. Adolescent egocentrism: highly self-focused thinking, particularly in the earlier teenage years. Assimilation: in cognitive development, the process by which new experiences are incorporated into existing schemas. Attachment: the strong emotional bond that develops between children and their primary caregivers. Auditory habituation procedure: type of study in which the same sound stimulus is presented repeatedly until infant looking time declines. Authoritarian parents: caregivers who exert control over their children but do so within a cold, responsive, or rejecting relationship. Authoritative parents: caregivers who are controlling but warm; they establish and enforce clear rules within a caring, supportive atmosphere. Cephalocaudal principle: the tendency for physical development to proceed in a head to food direction.
