Human Development Term Sheet
1. What is Developmental Psychology?
• Development
• Developmental Psychologists
2. Prenatal Period
Conception
Zygote
Germinal Stage
Fertilization
Placenta
Embryonic Stage
Embryo
Fetal Stage
Fetus
Viability
Teratogens
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Critical Period
3. Immediately After Birth: The Newborn
Apgar Scale Vision
Hearing
Smell and Taste Reflexes
Habituation
4. Infancy and Childhood Physical/Motor Development
Motor Development
Cephalocaudal Trend
Proximodistal Trend
Maturation
Developmental Norms
5. Infancy and Childhood Emotional Development - Temperament
Temperament
Easy Children
Slow To Warm Up Children
Difficult Children
6. Infancy and Childhood Social Development - Sense and Self and Attachment
Jerome Kagen
Sense of Self
Rouge Test Attachment
Separation Anxiety
Harry Harlow
Konrad Lorenz and Imprinting
Mary Ainsworth
Secure
Anxious Ambivalent
Avoident
Erik Erikson and Basic Trust
7. Infancy and Childhood Social Development - Parenting Styles
Parenting Styles
Authoritarian
Permissive
Authoritative
8. Infancy and Childhood Personality Development
Erik Erikson
Stage Theory
Psychosocial Crisis
Trust vs Mistrust
Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt
Initiative vs Guilt
Industry vs Inferiority
9. Infancy and Childhood Cognitive Development
Cognition
Piaget
Schemas
Assimilation
Accommodation
Sensorimotor Period
Object Permanence
Preoperational Period
Conservation
Centration
Irreversibility
Egocentrism
Theory Of Mind
Autism
Concrete Operational Period
Reversibility
Decentration
Hierarchical Classification
Formal Operational Period
Habituation
Dishabituation
10. Adolescent Physical Development
Adolescence
Adolescent Growth Spurt
Pubescence
Secondary Sex Characteristics
Puberty
Primary Sex Characteristics
Menarche
11. Adolescent Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget
Formal Operations
12. Adolescent Moral Development Morality
Lawrence Kohlberg
Preconventional
Conventional
Postconventional
13. Adolescent Search For Identity - Personality Development
Erik Erikson
Identity vs Role Confusion
James Marcia
Identity Diffusion
Identity Foreclosure
Identity Moratorium
Identity Achievement
14. Adulthood Physical Development
Dementia
Alzheimer's Disease
Parkinson's Disease
Menopause
Senility
15. Adulthood Cognitive Development
Fluid Intelligence
Crystalized Intelligence
16. Adulthood Personality Development
Midlife Crisis
Intimacy vs Isolation
Generativity vs Stagnation
Integrity vs Dispair
17. Adulthood Social Development
Longitudinal Study
Cross Sectional Study
Family Life Cycle
Empty Nest
Social Clock