Developmental psychology
How thinking, feeling and relationships change from infancy to old age.
4 terms
Stage theories
Classic theories that describe development as a series of stages, and their limits.
- Erikson’s psychosocial stages 埃里克森心理社会发展阶段
- A theory of personality development that divides life into eight stages, each with a psychosocial crisis.
- Piaget’s theory of cognitive development 皮亚杰认知发展理论
- Holds that children build knowledge by adjusting mental schemas and that thinking passes through four stages.
Early development
Brain development and the caregiving environment in the first years of life.
- Sensitive periods 敏感期
- A window in development when experience shapes a brain circuit unusually strongly; critical periods are a special case.
- Parenting styles 父母教养方式
- Four broad ways of raising children, set by how demanding and how responsive parents are.