| A | B |
|---|
| Kohlberg | Moral development |
| Preconventional moral reasoning | Decisions based on likelihood of punishment |
| Mean | measurement of central tendency greatly affected by extreme scores |
| Gender typing | Society's view of disctinctions between males and females |
| Thematic apperception test | You tell a story using your unconscious feelings |
| Piaget's accommodation theory | Children learn to break from their assimilated views |
| Maslow's hierarchy of needs | Safety, physiological, belonginess, self esteem, self actualization |
| 100 | Mean IQ score |
| 85-115 | Standard Deviation on IQ test |
| Maturation | Developmental changes relatively independent of the environment |
| Learning | Developmental changes highly dependent on environmental factors |
| intelligence that helps you process new information | Fluid intelligence |
| Intelligence that helps you process older, well established information | Crystallized intelligence |
| Assimilation | Applying known schema to new situations |
| Accommodation | Being able to apply new schema to new information |
| Terman | Found gifted people to have mostly happy, productive lives |
| Survival reflexes | Those reflexes we are born with e.g. sucking, rooting, startle |
| Sight | The last sense to develop fully after birth |
| Teratogens | Environmental hazards to prenatal development |
| Longitudinal study | Individuals or groups studied over a span of time |
| Cross-sectional study | Group of subjects studied at the same point in time |
| Harlow | Wire monkey experiments showing need for touch |
| Authoritative | The best parenting style- combines freedom and expectation of mature behavior |
| Permissive | Parenting with few boundaries |
| Authoritarian | Parenting with little regard for reasoning |
| Object permanence | Developed in the sensorimotor stage |
| Adolescents' main concern | Search for identity |
| Formal operations | Piaget's stage with complex thinking and hypothesis generating |
| Secure | Ainsworth's finding of the most common type of attachment |
| A test that finds out what you might be good at | Aptitude test |
| A test that finds out what you already know | Achievement test |
| Test reliability | How consistent the results are |
| Test validity | How much the test measures what it is supposed to measure |
| 85-115 | Range of standard deviation on the WISC intelligence test |
| A 10 year old with a mental age of a 12 year old | 120 i.q. |
| a 10 year old with a mental age of an 8 year old | 80 i.q. |
| Spearman's "g" factor of intelligence | General problem solving and reasoning ability |
| Factor analysis | Study of which test items measure the same things |
| Gardner, Howard | Multiple intelligence theorist |
| Componential, contextual, experiential | Sternbergs triarchic intelligence model |
| Deviation iq | Measures responses against others of the same age |
| Wechsler | deviation i.q. |
| 80% of retarded children | Mild |
| Monozygotic twins | Identical twins, closest correlation in i.q. |
| Fetal stage | Longest stage of prenatal development |
| Trust vs. mistrust | Erikson's early stage of development |
| strange situation | Ainsworth's model of study |
| need gratification=sense of security | Behaviorist's theory of attachment |
| Children putting objects in their mouth | Freud= unresolved sexual desires |
| Children putting objects in their mouth | Piaget- assimilation |
| Piaget's stages | sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational |
| egocentrism | the world is as the child sees it |
| conservation | ability to recognize values, quantities even in different forms |
| Formal operation stage | generally reached at puberty |
| Intimacy vs. isolation | Erikson's description of young adult conflict |
| Wear and tear theory | Life is long and often a struggle |
