Developmental Psychology

3. He outlined the principles of operant conditioning and believed strongly in reinforcement (children should be rewarded for good behavior and punish for bad behavior)
6. The personality state that we are born into, our biologically driven self that is based off of instant
8. Research that is designed to test an explanation and provide further knowledge about a topic
10. A stage in life (middle childhood) when kids start focusing they're attention beyond they're family and on friendships and other relationships
13. Research that is designed to provide practical solutions to a problem of interest
15. Each individual is impacted by _____ such as their siblings, parents, or someone that plays a significant role in their life
18. Asking a standard set of questions to a sample of people
19. Research that is done in a naturally occurring environment is called ____ study
20. A German physiologist that studied digestion most famously in a study he did on the amount of salivation produced when dogs ate
21. designed to test a hypothesis
23. Research done a group of people the same age repeatedly over a long period of time
25. People in society born around the same time period
26. Larger forces that impact a persons life such as religion or school
27. A student of Freud's that expanded his ideas on psychosexual development and added three stages of adult development

1. Part of the self that comes after we start learning the rules and standards of our society
2. These theories focus on how our mental processes and our cognitions change over a period of time
4. A cognitive theorist that first studied children through watching his own, he believes that chilling develop intellectually based on maturation rather than through experiences
5. Varies based on what the independent variable is
7. Going back to a time when you were happier and the world felt safer (often our childhood)
9. A similarity between what we already know and what we are seeing
11. Expanding ones knowledge to be able to accommodate a new situation
12. It is not a fact but instead a guideline for research or an explanation that suggests the what, how, and why
14. When a child is faced with something new and associates it with something they already know
16. The cognitive stage of development that we are in from birth until we are two years old
17. A study focused towards answering the question "why?"
19. Theorist that believed that personality was shaped by your childhood experiences
22. Pushing a painful thought out of our mind (consciousness)
24. Sociocultural theory - He believed that each person has a set of abilities and can only gain new abilities through guidance from other that were more knowledgeable