Advanced Placement Psychology
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| 6088472633 | Zygote | the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo. |  | 0 |
| 6088472634 | Embryo | the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month. |  | 1 |
| 6088472635 | Fetus | the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth. |  | 2 |
| 6088472636 | Teratogens | agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. |  | 3 |
| 6088472637 | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) | physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions. |  | 4 |
| 6088472639 | Assimilation | interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas. |  | 5 |
| 6088472640 | Accommodation | Development - adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. | | 6 |
| 6088472641 | 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. |  | 7 |
| 6088472642 | Object Permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. |  | 8 |
| 6088472643 | Preoperational Stage | in Piaget's theory, the stage (from 2 to about 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. | | 9 |
| 6088472644 | 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. |  | 10 |
| 6088472645 | Egocentrism | in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view. |  | 11 |
| 6088472646 | Theory of Mind | people's ideas about their own and others' mental states—about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict. |  | 12 |
| 6088472647 | 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. | | 13 |
| 6088472648 | 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. | | 14 |
| 6088472651 | Imprinting | the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life. |  | 15 |
| 6088472652 | Temperament | a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity. |  | 16 |
| 6088506221 | trust v mistrust | Erikson's first stage in which infants up to one year learn if they can count on their caregivers or not | 17 | |
| 6088508878 | autonomy v shame | age 1 to age 2, toddlerhood - learn to exercise will and do things for themselves, or they doubt their abilities | 18 | |
| 6088515528 | initiative v guilt | age 3 to 5, preschooler - learn to initiate tasks and carry out plans, or they feel guilty about efforts to be independent | 19 | |
| 6088518169 | industry v inferiority | age 6 to puberty, elementary school- learn the pleasures of applying themselves to tasks, and comparing themselves to others | 20 | |
| 6088546476 | preconventional morality | first level of Kohlberg's stages of moral development in which the child's behavior is governed by the consequences of the behavior | 21 | |
| 6088549201 | conventional morality | second level of Kohlberg's stages of moral development in which the child's behavior is governed by conforming to the society's norms of behavior | 22 | |
| 6088552840 | postconventional morality | third level of Kohlberg's stages of moral development in which the person's behavior is governed by moral principles that have been decided on by the individual and which may be in disagreement with accepted social norms | 23 |
