Theorists &their Theories   “A” in Social Development Morality &Social Behavior            Parenting & Families           Peers & Social Cognition

This theorist proposed that the development of a gender identity happens because of girls’ affiliation with their mothers and boys’ differentiation from their mothers.

When a person does good deeds, such as sharing, this kind of behavior is demonstrated.

This type of aggression is used to obtain or retain a toy or other object.

 The rate of single-parent families has been doing THIS in recent years. 

Children prefer THIS type of body silhouette.

This theorist proposed that children were like “little scientists” discovering the world through the senses and motor abilities. 

Children with the highest self-esteem are most likely the result of THIS kind of parenting.

HIS theory or moral development is focused on justice. 

THIS kind of family is made up of two parents and one or more children. 

THIS kind play involves children acting out make-believe themes in a collaborative fashion.  

This theorist proposed that we go through 8 stages of psychosocial development. 

In THIS kind of morality, according to Piaget, children have internalized rules and understand that rules are changeable.   

In Gilligan’s view of moral behavior, female moral reasoning is based on this. 

In THIS kind of discipline, the parent relies on superior power and physical control to control the child’s behavior.

THIS is knowing that one has a mind, that others have minds, and that minds do certain kinds of things. 

HIS theory claims that people develop by imitating others’ modeled actions. 

THIS is a close emotional relationship between two persons, characterized by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity.

The emotions of shame, pride, and embarrassment require that a person first have this.

 THIS is the notion that parents’ child-rearing practices are sensitively adapted to the child’s temperamental characteristics.

THIS is the fear that one will be judged to have traits associated with negative social stereotypes about his or her racial or ethnic group.

This theorist was the first behaviorist in developmental psychology. 

THIS is the process by which children modify their existing schemes in order to incorporate or adapt to new experiences. 

THIS is the idea that unacceptable behavior will be punished. 

Children who lack self-control are most likely to have parents who are in this category of Baumrind’s parenting styles.

THIS is the process of defining and evaluating the self by comparing oneself to other people. 

 

 

           

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THIS is one’s characteristic way of responding to the world.

This procedure was designed to measure how a child responds to separations and reunions with a caregiver. 

True or false:  Playing computer games can increase children’s spatial reasoning and logic.

A person who is currently in an identity crisis is in THIS status of Marcia’s identity development.

This is a gender-based stereotype used to organize knowledge. 

Children with THIS kind of temperament adapt well to new situations. 

Harry Harlow found that monkeys who had been raised without contact with their mothers preferred THIS kind of monkey when under stress. 

THIS is the notion that people who watch a lot of media violence will become less aroused by aggression and more tolerant of violence.

The rouge test is a test of THIS and children pass at about THIS age.

 Some attachment theorists believe that children form THIS in their minds, and use it to interpret all future relationships. 

THIS is a desire or motivation to achieve in order to earn external incentives such as grades, prizes, or approval.

This type of attachment pattern is demonstrated when an infant doesn’t notice that her mother has left the day-care and ignores her mother when she returns. 

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!  THESE are two positive outcomes in children who watch Sesame Street.

 

THIS is one’s perception of one’s unique attributes.

THESE societies tend to emphasize ways in which individuals differ from each other.

According to Dweck, THIS happens when children believe that their ability can’t be changed, that success is due to luck or high effort, and that failure is due to low ability. 

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

A six-month-old infant who shows fear of a new person is exhibiting THIS.

TV is found to be related to THIS eating disorder in Fiji.  Before TV, no eating disorder, after TV: eating disorder. 

THIS is Erikson’s 6th psychosocial conflict in which young adults must commit themselves to a shared identity with another person, or else remain unconnected to others. 

THIS candy was made famous by a popular false-belief test.

THIS man defined the need for achievement, n Ach, as a learned motive to complete and strive for success. 

This type of anxiety occurs around 8 or 9 months of age.

THESE are TWO things parents can do to help children understand or handle TV. 

Someone is taking a test and says, “What luck!  Every question seemed to be about the days of class I missed.”  According to Weiner, THIS is their locus of causality.

THIS is indicated when people cause others to act in accordance with the expectations they have about them.