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| 8373371767 | developmental psychology | the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life | 0 | |
| 8373371768 | Continuity vs stages | is development a gradual process or a sequence of stages | 1 | |
| 8373371769 | stability vs change | do our early personality traits continue through life or do we become different with age | 2 | |
| 8373371770 | zygote | fertilized egg cell | 3 | |
| 8373371771 | embryo | shows differentiation | 4 | |
| 8373371772 | fetus | the forming baby | 5 | |
| 8373371773 | teratogens | things that can harm the baby (drugs) | 6 | |
| 8373371774 | fetal alcohol syndrome | excessive amounts of alcohol during pregnancy can have psychical and mental defects on the baby | 7 | |
| 8373371775 | rooting reflex | helps a baby locate food | 8 | |
| 8373371776 | moro (startle) reflex | spreading out arms when feeling of falling | 9 | |
| 8373371777 | habituation | get used to it | 10 | |
| 8373371778 | maturation | biological growth process that enables an orderly progression of our abilities and behaviors | 11 | |
| 8373371779 | schema | mental molds into which we pour our experiences | 12 | |
| 8373371780 | assimilation | adjust new information to fit our current schema | 13 | |
| 8373371781 | accomodation | adjust our schema into fitting new information | 14 | |
| 8373371782 | cognition | understanding through experiences | 15 | |
| 8373371783 | sensorimotor stage | experiencing the world through senses and actions | 16 | |
| 8373371784 | object permanence | if an object is not visible, it doesn't exist (toy under a blanket) (sensorimotor) | 17 | |
| 8373371785 | preoperational stage | representing things with words and images (intuitive reasoning) | 18 | |
| 8373371786 | conservation | (concrete operational) the changing form of an object does not change its amount | 19 | |
| 8373371787 | egocentrism | (preoperational) children cannot perceive things from anothers point of view | 20 | |
| 8373371788 | theory of mind | children develop the ability to understand anothers mental state | 21 | |
| 8373371789 | autism | children do not follow typical patterns of development | 22 | |
| 8373371790 | concrete operational stage | thinking logically and performing arithmetic operations | 23 | |
| 8373371791 | formal operational stage | abstract reasoning | 24 | |
| 8373371792 | Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural theory | How behaviors are affected by social and cultural factors | 25 | |
| 8373371793 | internalization | Characteristics of other people are assimilated into your own self | 26 | |
| 8373371794 | stranger anxiety | Form of distress that children experience when exposed to someone unfamiliar | 27 | |
| 8373371795 | secure attachment | relaxed and encouraging parenting leads to basic trust and positive self concept | 28 | |
| 8373371796 | insecure attachment | a child avoids a caregiver which can lead to low self-confidence and stranger anxiety | 29 | |
| 8373371797 | critical point | Turning point in someone's behavior | 30 | |
| 8373371798 | imprinting | Newborns attachment to a parent | 31 | |
| 8373371799 | basic trust | belief that the world is a safe place to explore | 32 | |
| 8373371800 | self-concept | independence and self confidence promoted by secure attachment | 33 | |
| 8373371801 | authoritarian parenting | high control, low warmth | 34 | |
| 8373371802 | authoritative parenting | high control, high warmth (best for positive self-concept) | 35 | |
| 8373371803 | permissive parenting | low control, high warmth | 36 | |
| 8373371804 | neglectful parenting | low control, low warmth | 37 | |
| 8373371805 | adolescence | life between childhood and adulthood | 38 | |
| 8373371806 | puberty | sexual maturation | 39 | |
| 8373371807 | primary sex characteristics | development of reproductive organs and external genitalia | 40 | |
| 8373371808 | secondary sex characteristics | development of non-reproductive traits (breasts and hips for females, deepening voice and facial hair for males) | 41 | |
| 8373371809 | menarche | first menstral cycle | 42 | |
| 8373371810 | preconventional morality | moral thinking based on gaining rewards and avoiding punishments | 43 | |
| 8373371811 | conventional morality | moral thinking based on social laws and approval | 44 | |
| 8373371812 | postconventional morality | moral thinking based on personal ethics and standards | 45 | |
| 8373371813 | eriksons stages of psychosocial development | infancy, toddlerhood, preschooler, elementary school, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood | 46 | |
| 8373371814 | identity | teenagers work at refining a sense of self by testing roles and integrating them to form a single identity (leads to forming close relationships) | 47 | |
| 8373371815 | intimacy | forming close relationships | 48 | |
| 8373371816 | emerging adulthood | spans ages 18-25 where young adults may live with their parents, attend college or work | 49 | |
| 8373371817 | menopause | at around age 50, during middle adulthood, menstruation ends | 50 | |
| 8373371818 | alzheimers disease | disease caused by decreasing Ach that increases with age | 51 | |
| 8373371819 | cross-sectional study | testing multiple groups at once | 52 | |
| 8373371820 | longitudinal study | testing one group over a span of time | 53 | |
| 8373371821 | crystallized intelligence | accumulated knowledge and skills do not decline with time | 54 | |
| 8373371822 | fluid intelligence | ability to reason speedily declines with time | 55 | |
| 8373371823 | social clock | cultural time for events to occur (marriage by 28, kids by 30) | 56 | |
| 8373371824 | competent reflex | baby is already born with certain traits | 57 | |
| 8373371825 | sensorimotor traits | object permanence, stranger anxiety | 58 | |
| 8373371826 | preoperational traits | pretend play, egocentrism | 59 | |
| 8373371827 | concrete operational traits | conservation, math | 60 | |
| 8373371828 | formal operational traits | logic, mature reasoning | 61 | |
| 8373371829 | infancy stage | trust vs mistrust | 62 | |
| 8373371830 | toddlerhood stage | autonomy vs shame and doubt | 63 | |
| 8373371831 | preschooler stage | initiative vs guilt | 64 | |
| 8373371832 | elementary school stage | competence vs inferiority | 65 | |
| 8373371833 | adolescence stage | identity vs role confusion | 66 | |
| 8373371834 | young adulthood stage | intimacy vs isolation | 67 | |
| 8373371835 | middle adulthood stage | generativity vs stagnation | 68 | |
| 8373371836 | late adulthood stage | integrity vs dispair | 69 | |
| 8373371837 | selective pruning | use it or lost it | 70 | |
| 8373371838 | Piaget | Made a systematic study of cognitive development | 71 | |
| 8373371839 | Kohlberg | sought to describe the development of moral reasoning by posing moral dilemmas to children (found stages of moral development) | 72 |
