Development & Learning

You take ibuprofen to get rid of a headache so that you can concentrate on your homework again.

Taking away a desirable stimulus to decrease a behavior

Parenting style that gives reasonable demands and consistent limits, expresses warmth and affection.

Cultural timeline for important social milestones in a persons life

Nature refers to all of these except for ONE

Right and wrong is defined by our personal values

Parenting style that imposes rules and expects obedience. Often strict and expresses little warmth

The reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response in classical conditioning

Nurture refers to all but ONE

Right & wrong is defines by what we get rewarded and punished for

The awareness that objects exist, even when they're not seen

Educator/caregiver adjusting support techniques to suit a child at developmentally appropriate level.

Understands logical reasoning, can grasp operations like conservation, and mathematical operations

A conditioned response mean it is a learned response

Teens start to develop a sense of self and personal identity

One of the first stages when a response is established (repetition) in classical conditioning

Having difficulty looking at other's perspectives (only understands their own) common in kids and teenagers

Sometimes children develop such a strong attachment to their parents that they're afraid of other adults

You got a great score on your learning & development test, so your parents take you to your favorite restaurant

Right & wrong defined by effort to secure approval and maintain friendly relations and follows what everyone else does.

Because you showed up 10 minutes late to practice, your coach says you have to do 50 pushups

Young adults need to form intimate, loving relationships with other people

Adding something desirable to increase a behavior

Takes in the world through senses: looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, grasping

Kids ages 6-11 start to cope with new academic and social demands

The learned response weakens over time when not paired up with unlearned stimulus in classical conditioning

Imaginative play to represent objects and build conceptual knowledge through pretending + dramatic play

Taking away an undesirable stimulus to increase a behavior (to return to the state of "pleasantness"

Adding an undesirable consequence after an unwanted behavior so that it decreases.

Parenting style where the kids run the show. Parents make few demands, set few limits, and use little punishment

A type of learning where associations are formed between 2 events, leading to a new conditioned response.

When learning occurs as a function of the consequences of behaviors

Uses more abstract and hypothetical thinking--more mature moral reasoning

Children start to represent things in words and images and struggles with mental operations (like conservation)

You came home past your curfew so your parents take away your car for 2 weeks

The tendency to respond to stimuli that resembles the original conditioned stimulus in classical conditioning

Parenting style where parents are uninvolved-- are careless, inattentive, and doesn't care about the kids.