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| 92828972 | Developmental Psychologists | Psychologists who seek to understand, describe, and explore how behavior and mental processes change over the course of a life time. | |
| 92828973 | Zygote | The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo. | |
| 92828974 | Embryo | The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month. | |
| 92828975 | Fetus | The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth. | |
| 92828976 | Teratogens | Agents, such as chemicals or viruses, that can reach the embryo and or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. | |
| 92828977 | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) | Cognitive and physical abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. | |
| 92828978 | Rooting Reflex | A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple. | |
| 92828979 | 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. | |
| 92828980 | Maturation | Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. | |
| 92828981 | Jean Piaget | Psychologist who created the four stages of cognitive development. Thought babies were dumber than they were. | |
| 92828982 | 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 activities. | |
| 92828983 | 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. | |
| 92828984 | 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. | |
| 92828985 | 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. | |
| 92828986 | Schemas | Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information. | |
| 92828987 | Assimilate | To interpert experiences in terms of our current understandings (schemas). | |
| 92828988 | Accommodate | To adapt current understandings to incorperate new info. | |
| 92828989 | Object Permanence | The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived (Occurs at 3-7 months). | |
| 92828990 | Conservation | The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects. | |
| 92828991 | Egocentric | A young child's inability to understand another person's perspective. | |
| 92828992 | Theory of Mind | People's ideas about their own and others' mental states (about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict). | |
| 92828993 | Stranger Anxiety | The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age. | |
| 92828994 | Attachment | An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation. | |
| 92828995 | Harry Harlow | Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment, using monkeys and artificial mothers. | |
| 92828996 | Critical Period | An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. | |
| 92828997 | Imprinting | The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life. | |
| 92828998 | Mary Ainsworth | Placed infants into a "Strange Situation" in order to examine attatchment to parents. | |
| 92828999 | Erik Erikson | The psychologist whose theory is "Basic Trust". | |
| 92829000 | 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. | |
| 92829001 | Self Concept | A sense of one's identity and personal worth. | |
| 92829002 | Strange Situation | An observational measure of infant attachment that requires the infant to move through a series of introducions, separations, and reunions with the caregiver and an adult stranger in a prescribed order. | |
| 92829003 | Skinner vs. Chomsky | Nuture vs. Nature |
