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| 6360428671 | Developmental Psychology | deals with the ways that personality, cognitive ability, and behavior change during somebody's life span | 0 | |
| 6360428672 | Habituation | diminishing of a physiological or emotional response to a frequently repeated stimulus | 1 | |
| 6360430593 | Cross-sectional research | people of different ages are examined at the same time | 2 | |
| 6360433621 | Longitudinal research | looking at variables over the course of many years | 3 | |
| 6360433622 | Teratogens | anything that can disrupt the development of an embryo or fetus in a pregnant mother's womb | 4 | |
| 6360435199 | Self-concept | individual's belief about himself or herself | 5 | |
| 6360435200 | Harry-Harlow | experimented with monkeys and separation | 6 | |
| 6360437559 | Secure-Attachments | shows minimal distress when a caregiver leaves them alone | 7 | |
| 6360437567 | Avoidant Attachments | insecure attachment whereby infants do not seek proximity to their parent after separation | 8 | |
| 6360441024 | Anxious/Ambivalent attachments | when the infant feels separation anxiety when separated from the caregiver and does not feel reassured when the caregiver returns to the infant | 9 | |
| 6360441025 | Authoritarian Parents | characterized by high demands and low responsiveness | 10 | |
| 6360443202 | Permissive Parents | characterized by low demands with high responsiveness | 11 | |
| 6360443203 | Authoritative Parents | characterized by reasonable demands and high responsiveness | 12 | |
| 6360444990 | Jean Piaget | famous for theories on cognitive development in children | 13 | |
| 6360444991 | Erik Erikson | created the Psychosocial Stages of Development | 14 | |
| 6360447459 | Social learning theory | States that social behavior is learned primarily by observing and imitating the actions of others | 15 | |
| 6360447460 | Schema | cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information | 16 | |
| 6360447461 | Assimilation | take in new information or experiences and incorporate them into our existing idea | 17 | |
| 6360450021 | Accomodation | altering one's existing schemas, or ideas, as a result of new information or new experiences | 18 | |
| 6360450022 | Sensorimotor Stage | From birth to age 2, children learn to coordinate all their sensory experiences with their motor behaviors | 19 | |
| 6360453752 | Object Permanence | a child's ability to know that objects continue to exist even though they can no longer be seen or heard | 20 | |
| 6360455420 | Preoperational Stage | between 2 and 7 years old, child begins to use symbolize items or experiences in speech, drawing, and etc. | 21 | |
| 6360455421 | Egocentric | an inability on the part of a child to see any point of view other than their own | 22 | |
| 6360458692 | Concrete Operational Stage | takes place during middle childhood, characterized by the development of logical thought | 23 | |
| 6360458693 | Conservation | child understands that changing the form of a substance or object does not change its amount, overall volume, or mass | 24 | |
| 6360461381 | Formal Operational Stage | The emergence of abstract thought and hypothetical reasoning mark this phase of development | 25 | |
| 6360461382 | Social Clock | set of norms that govern the ages at which certain events happen | 26 | |
| 6360463503 | Preconventional Stage | People at this level judge the morality of an action by its direct consequences | 27 | |
| 6360467464 | Conventional Stage | People at this level judge the morality of actions by comparing them to society's views and expectations | 28 | |
| 6360469306 | Postconventional stage | People at this stage view rules as useful but changeable mechanisms—ideally rules can maintain the general social order and protect human rights | 29 | |
| 6360469307 | Zygote | a fertilized egg | 30 | |
| 6360469308 | Embryo | an organism that is anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months after being fertilized | 31 | |
| 6360470467 | Fetus | longest stage of prenatal, human development that lasts from 9 weeks after conception to birth | 32 | |
| 6360470468 | Theory of Mind | The capacity to imagine or form opinions about the cognitive states of other people | 33 | |
| 6360472657 | Critical Period | a specific time during which an organism has to experience stimuli in order to progress through developmental stages properly | 34 | |
| 6360472658 | Imprinting | A process in which certain birds and mammals form attachments during a critical period very early in their lives | 35 | |
| 6360474464 | Temperament | characteristics and aspects of personality that we are born with | 36 | |
| 6360474465 | Gender Role | pattern of behavior, personality traits and attitudes defining masculinity or femininity in a certain culture | 37 | |
| 6360477041 | Diana Baumrind | She proposed parenting styles | 38 | |
| 6360481400 | Primary vs. Secondary Sexual Characteristics | are nonreproductive sexual characteristics | 39 | |
| 6360483916 | Menarche | Is the first incidence or occurrence of menstruation in a female. This marks the 'official' onset of puberty | 40 | |
| 6360486707 | Lawrence Kohlberg | was an American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development | 41 | |
| 6360492302 | Puberty | the time period between childhood and adulthood when physical changes allow for reproduction | 42 | |
| 6360492303 | Adolescence | The developmental stage that occurs from puberty to maturity | 43 | |
| 6360495884 | Lev Vygotsky | Researched the Zone of Proximal Development | 44 | |
| 6360495885 | Konrad Lorenz | Austrian scientist who is known for his work with an emphasis on instinctive behavior in animals. (imprinting on birds) | 45 | |
| 6360497973 | Mary Ainsworth | developmental psychologist. did the "strange situation" experiment. | 46 | |
| 6360506046 | Zone of Proximal Development | the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help | 47 |
