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| 6111033021 | Developmental Psychology | a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. |  | 0 |
| 6111033022 | Zygote | the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo. |  | 1 |
| 6111033023 | Embryo | the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month. |  | 2 |
| 6111033024 | Fetus | the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth. |  | 3 |
| 6111033025 | Teratogens | agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. |  | 4 |
| 6111033026 | 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. |  | 5 |
| 6111033027 | 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. | 6 | |
| 6111033028 | Maturation | biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. |  | 7 |
| 6111033029 | Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |  | 8 |
| 6111033030 | Schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. |  | 9 |
| 6111033031 | Assimilation | interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas. | | 10 |
| 6111033032 | Accommodation | Development - adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. | | 11 |
| 6111033033 | 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. -object permanence -stranger anxiety |  | 12 |
| 6111033034 | Object Permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. |  | 13 |
| 6111033035 | 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. -egocentricism | | 14 |
| 6111033036 | 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. |  | 15 |
| 6111033037 | Egocentrism | in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view. |  | 16 |
| 6111033038 | 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. |  | 17 |
| 6111033039 | 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. -understand conservation -math | | 18 |
| 6111033040 | 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 -morals | | 19 |
| 6111033041 | Autism Spectrum Disorder | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind. |  | 20 |
| 6111033042 | Stranger Anxiety | the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months, peaks at 13 months. |  | 21 |
| 6111033043 | Attachment | an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation. |  | 22 |
| 6111033044 | Critical Period | an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. |  | 23 |
| 6111033045 | Imprinting | the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life. |  | 24 |
| 6111033046 | 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. |  | 25 |
| 6111033047 | Self-Concept | all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?", by 15 months infants can recognize themselves in the mirror |  | 26 |
| 6111033048 | Puberty | the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing. |  | 27 |
| 6111033049 | Primary Sex Characteristics | the body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible. |  | 28 |
| 6111033050 | Secondary Sex Characteristics | nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair. |  | 29 |
| 6111033051 | Menarche | the first menstrual period. |  | 30 |
| 6111033052 | Identity | our sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles. |  | 31 |
| 6111033053 | Social Identity | the "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships. |  | 32 |
| 6111033054 | Intimacy | in Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood. |  | 33 |
| 6111033055 | Emerging Adulthood | for some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to mid-twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood. |  | 34 |
| 6111033056 | Menopause | the time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines. |  | 35 |
| 6111033057 | Cross-Sectional Study | a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another. |  | 36 |
| 6111033058 | Longitudinal Study | research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period. |  | 37 |
| 6111033059 | Social Clock | the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement. |  | 38 |
| 6111033060 | Visual Preference | we focus first on the face not the body | 39 | |
| 6111033061 | Pruning Process | shutting down of unused neural pathways and strengthens others (7 months and puberty) | 40 | |
| 6111033062 | Infantile Amnesia | not remembering things younger than 3 |  | 41 |
| 6111033063 | What is Piagets base? | cognitive development | 42 | |
| 6111033064 | Lev Vygotsky believed... | childs mind grows through social interaction | 43 | |
| 6111033065 | Harlow Study 1971 | showed us that we bond not through nourishment but through physical touch, displayed when the monkey clung to the soft mom and not the mom with food when scared |  | 44 |
| 6111033066 | Secure Attachment | children who show some distress when their caregiver leaves but are able to compose themselves and do something knowing that their caregiver will return. Children with secure attachment feel protected by their caregivers, and they know that they can depend on them to return. |  | 45 |
| 6111033067 | Insecure Attachment | avoidance of trusting relationships, extremely upset when left alone or don't even care |  | 46 |
| 6111033068 | Anxious/Ambivalent Attachment | extreme opposites on the reactive spectrum, cannot leave parent |  | 47 |
| 6111033069 | Romanian Deprivation Crisis | bond between parent and child were weak because parents had so many kids and were put in mass orphanages, resulted in lower iq | 48 | |
| 6111033070 | Daycare Influence | advanced thinking and language but more aggressive and defiant |  | 49 |
| 6111033071 | Authoritarian Parenting | very strict, all rules |  | 50 |
| 6111033072 | Permissive Parenting | little punishment, submissive | 51 | |
| 6111033073 | Authoritative Parenting | demanding and responsive, expects obedience but will listen to child |  | 52 |
| 6111033074 | Uninvolved Parenting | lack of affection or interest |  | 53 |
| 6111033075 | Preconventional Moral Thinking- Developed by Kohlberg | 9 and under, morals based on self interest and will do things if they get a reward | 54 | |
| 6111033076 | Conventional Moral Thinking | early adolescence, follow rules because they are told to by an authority figure or if it is "cool" or everyone is doing it | 55 | |
| 6111033077 | Post Conventional Moral Thinking | adolescence, morals reflect personal beliefs and ethics |  | 56 |
| 6111033078 | Moral Action | if you are involved in the right thing you will develop high morals | 57 | |
| 6111033079 | Moral Feeling | emotions impact judgement | 58 | |
| 6111033080 | Erik Erikson | personality influenced by social conflict |  | 59 |
| 6111033081 | Trust v. Mistrust | infancy, are you able to trust your caregiver for your needs |  | 60 |
| 6111033082 | Autonomy v. Doubt | toddler, want to do things their own way, "NO", if they can't do things their own they will doubt themselves |  | 61 |
| 6111033083 | Initiative v. Guilt | pre-k, "WHY?", want to understand world, will feel guilty if scolded |  | 62 |
| 6111033084 | Competence v. Inferiority | elementary, judgement between people, feels good or bad about themselves |  | 63 |
| 6111033085 | Identity v. Confusion | adolescence, sense of self, sexuality, roles |  | 64 |
| 6111033086 | Intimacy v. Isolation | young adult, balance work and love,if you cant find balance you never will |  | 65 |
| 6111033087 | Activity v. Stagnation | middle adult, mid life crisis, "is everything in my life going as planned?" |  | 66 |
| 6111033088 | Integrity v. Despair | late adult, reflection on life, "I regret.." |  | 67 |
| 6111033089 | Telemeres | chromosomes that wear down from smoking and age, prevents neurogenesis |  | 68 |
| 6111033090 | Death Deferral Phenomenon | spirit affects life expectancy; depression causes poor health and early death; more people die 2 days after Christmas than before | 69 | |
| 6111033091 | Spermarche | first ejaculation; usually occurs as a nocturnal emission |  | 70 |
| 6111033092 | Terminal Decline | in last 3 or 4 years of life, cognitive decline typically accelerates; saying how near death someone is gives betters clue of person's mental ability |  | 71 |
| 6111033093 | Neurocognitive Disorder | mental erosion, dementia |  | 72 |
| 6111033094 | Alzheimers | memory deterioration, neurons that produce neurotransmitter acetylcholine die |  | 73 |
| 6111033095 | Prospective Memory | remembering time based and habitual tasks ex: walking by the grocery store you suddenly remember you need milk | 74 |
