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| 5466492991 | Nature/Nurture | How do genetic inheritance and experience influence our development? | 0 | |
| 5466495273 | Continuity/Stages | Is development a gradual, continuous process like riding an escalator, or does it proceed through a sequence of separate stages, like climbing rungs on a ladder? | 1 | |
| 5466503943 | Stability/Change | Do our early personality traits persist through life, or do we become different persons as we age? | 2 | |
| 5466507030 | Zygote | fertalized egg | 3 | |
| 5466509633 | embryo | the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month. | 4 | |
| 5466515477 | fetus | the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth | 5 | |
| 5466519284 | fetal alcohol syndrome | can result in mental retardation | 6 | |
| 5466521841 | habituation | decreasing responsiveness to a repeated stimulus. | 7 | |
| 5466524937 | maturation | biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. | 8 | |
| 5466535805 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | 9 | |
| 5466538983 | schemas | concepts/mental models | 10 | |
| 5466541077 | assimilation | interpreting our new experience in terms of existing schemas | 11 | |
| 5466543871 | object permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not percieved | 12 | |
| 5466547427 | sensorimotor stage | (birth to 2) infants know the world through sensory impressions | 13 | |
| 5466559455 | preoperational stage | children lack the ability to see the world through other people's eyes in this stage of development | 14 | |
| 5466570405 | concrete operational stage | children understand conservation of mass in this stage | 15 | |
| 5466572319 | formal operational stage | Children can think "abstractly" about situations in this stage. | 16 |
