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| 228931261 | Developmental Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span | |
| 228931262 | Zygote | The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo | |
| 228931263 | Embryo | The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month | |
| 228931264 | Fetus | The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth | |
| 228931265 | Teratogens | Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm | |
| 228931266 | Fetal Alcohol Sydrome (FAS) | Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking; in severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions | |
| 228931267 | Rooting Reflex | A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nippe | |
| 228931268 | Habituation | Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation; as infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner | |
| 228931269 | Maturation | Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience | |
| 228931270 | Infantile Amnesia | The inability of individuals to remember the very earliest years of their lives | |
| 228931271 | Scale Errors | A serious attempt made by a child to perform a task that is patently impossible because of the extreme differences in the size of the objects involved | |
| 228931272 | Schema | A concept of framework that organizes and interprets information | |
| 228931273 | Assimilation | Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas | |
| 228931274 | Accommodation | Adapting one's current understanding (schemas) to incorporate new information | |
| 228931275 | Cognition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | |
| 232932309 | Sensorimotor Stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activity | |
| 232932310 | Object Permanence | The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived | |
| 232932311 | Preoperational Stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic | |
| 232932312 | Conservation | The principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects | |
| 232932313 | Egocentrism | In Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view | |
| 232932314 | Theory of Mind | People's idea's about their own and others' mental states- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict | |
| 232932315 | Autism | A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind | |
| 232932316 | Inner Speech | Speech that is directed by a person to himself and which is realized in an internal code that is not in audible speech | |
| 232932317 | Scaffolding | The provision of sufficient support to promote learning when concepts and skills are first being introduced to students | |
| 232932318 | Zone of Proximal Development | The difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help | |
| 232932319 | Concrete Operational Stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events | |
| 232932320 | Formal Operational Stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts | |
| 232932321 | Stranger Anxiety | The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age | |
| 232932322 | Attachment | An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation | |
| 232932323 | Body Contact | Attachment from nurturing and security given to a child | |
| 237165961 | Safe Haven | When the child feels threatened or afraid, he or she can return to the caregiver for comfort and support | |
| 237165962 | Secure Base | The caregiver provides a dependable base for the child to explore the world | |
| 237165963 | Critical Period | An optimal period shortly after birth where an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development | |
| 237165964 | Imprinting | The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life | |
| 237165965 | Strange Situation | Usually a laboratory play room | |
| 237165966 | Secure Attachment | Caregivers are a secure base for exploration | |
| 237165967 | Insecure Attachment | No attachment | |
| 237165968 | Temperament | One's characteristic emotional reactivity | |
| 237165969 | Basic Trust | According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers | |
| 237165970 | Self-Concept | A sense of one's identity and personal worth | |
| 237165971 | Authoritarian Parenting | Parents impose rules and expect obedience | |
| 237165972 | Authoritative Parenting | Parents are both demanding and responsive | |
| 237165973 | Permissive Parenting | Parents submit to their children's desires, make few demands, and use little punishment | |
| 237165974 | Neglecting/Rejecting Parenting | Indifference to children | |
| 237165975 | Adolescence | The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence | |
| 237165976 | Puberty | The period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproducing | |
| 238575190 | Primary Sex Characteristics | The body structures that make sexual reproduction possible | |
| 238575191 | Secondary Sex Characteristics | Non-reproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality and body hair | |
| 238575192 | Menarche | The first menstrual period | |
| 238575193 | Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Reasoning | Made of pre-conventional morality, conventional morality, and post-conventional morality | |
| 238575194 | Empathy | The capacity to recognize and share feelings by another human | |
| 238575195 | Delayed Gratification | A person's ability to wait in order to obtain something that he or she wants | |
| 238575196 | Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development | Made up of stages; hope, will, purpose, competence, fidelity, love, care, and integrity | |
| 238575197 | Identnity | One's sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles | |
| 238575198 | Intimacy | In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary development task in late adolescence and early adulthood | |
| 238575199 | Menopause | The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines | |
| 238575200 | Alzheimer's Disease | A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and physical functioning | |
| 238575201 | Cross-sectional Study | A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another | |
| 238575202 | Longitudinal Study | Research in which people of different ages are compared with one another | |
| 238575203 | Crystallized Intelligence | One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age | |
| 238575204 | Fluid Intelligence | One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood | |
| 238575205 | Social Clock | The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement | |
| 238575206 | Life Events | Mark transitions to new life whenever they occur and occur at increasingly unpredictable ages | |
| 238575207 | Kubler-Ross' Stages of Grief (Dying) | Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance | |
| 238575208 | Continuity/Stages | Does change occur in steps or smoothly over time? | |
| 238575209 | Stability/Change | How much does behavior change over the lifespan? |
