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| 41054326 | Developmental Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. | |
| 41054327 | Zygote | The fertilized egg. | |
| 41054328 | Embryo | The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month. | |
| 41054329 | Fetus | The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception of birth. | |
| 41054330 | Teratogens | Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. | |
| 41054332 | Rooting Reflex | A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple. | |
| 41054333 | Habituation | Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. | |
| 41054334 | Maturation | Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior. | |
| 41054335 | Schema | A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. | |
| 41054336 | Assimilation | Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas. | |
| 41054337 | Accomodation | Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. | |
| 41054338 | Cognition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | |
| 41054339 | Sensorimotor Stage | The stage from (Birth - 2) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities. | |
| 41054340 | Object Permanence | The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. | |
| 41054341 | Preoperational Stage | The stage (2 - 6 or 7) during which a child learns to use language. | |
| 41054342 | Conservation | The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects. | |
| 41054343 | Egocentrism | The inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view. | |
| 41054344 | Theory Of Mind | People's ideas about their own and others' mental states. | |
| 41054345 | Autism | A disorder that apperas in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind. | |
| 41054346 | Concrete Operational Stage | The stage of cognitive development (6 or 7 - 11) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. | |
| 41054347 | Formal Operational Stage | The stage of cognitive development (About age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts. | |
| 41054348 | Stranger Anxiety | The fear of strangers that infants commonly display. | |
| 41054349 | Attachment | An emotional tie with another person. | |
| 41054350 | Critical Period | An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. | |
| 41054351 | Imprinting | The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life. | |
| 41054352 | Basic Trust | According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy. | |
| 41054353 | Self-Concept | A sense of one's identity and personal worth. | |
| 41054354 | Adolescence | The transition period from childhood to adulthood. | |
| 41054355 | Puberty | The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing. | |
| 41054356 | Primary sex characteristics | The body structures that make sexual reproduction possible. | |
| 41054357 | Secondary sex characteristics | Nonreproductive sexual characteristics. | |
| 41054358 | Menarche | The first menstrual period. | |
| 41054359 | Identity | One's sense of self; The adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles. | |
| 41054360 | Intimacy | In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships. | |
| 41054361 | Menopause | The time of natural cessation of menstruation. | |
| 41054362 | Alzheimer's disease | A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and, finally, phsyical functioning. | |
| 41054363 | Cross-sectional study | A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another. | |
| 41054364 | Longitudinal Study | Reserach in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period. | |
| 41054365 | Crystalized intelligence | One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills. | |
| 41054366 | Fluid intelligence | One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly. | |
| 41054367 | Social Clock | The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement. | |
| 41054368 | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions |
