What are the major areas of the human brain and how do they develop during infancy? How does experience and stress affect the development of these brain areas during infancy?
Define: Head-sparing, brain-stem, midbrain, cortex, prefrontal cortex, neuron, dendrite, synapses, neurotransmitter, transient exuberance, pruning
What are self-aware/self-conscious emotions and when do we develop them? Why are they important for us to have when we are children?
Define: Self-awareness, mirror recognition test
Know: Different types of self-conscious emotions (pride, shame, anger, embarrassment, disgust, guilt)
Why is synchrony important to the development of our brain and social skills early on in our lives?
Define: synchrony; still-face experiment
What is attachment and how does it develop? What is the difference between secure, insecure avoidant, insecure anxious/ambivalent, and insecure preoccupied attachment? How are these attachment styles affected by our experiences with close partners?
Define: Attachment; Strange situation test; secure attachment; insecure avoidant attachment; insecure anxious/ambivalent/resistant attachment; insecure preoccupied attachment;
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder? How can children develop it through their experiences with others? How does it affect them over time?
Define: Reactive Attachment Disorder
According to Jean Piaget’s theory, how do children develop their understanding of the world during the sensorimotor period?
Define: Sensorimotor intelligence; object permanence
How do infants and young children develop their language skills early on? What is “supposed” to happen in language development, according to the Universal Sequence of language development?
Define: Babbling; holophrase; naming explosion; grammar