Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 8067952434 | Developmental Psychology | a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. |  | 0 |
| 8067952435 | Zygote | the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo. |  | 1 |
| 8067952436 | Embryo | the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month. |  | 2 |
| 8067952437 | Fetus | the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth. |  | 3 |
| 8067952438 | Teratogens | agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. |  | 4 |
| 8067952439 | 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 |
| 8067952440 | 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 |
| 8067952441 | Maturation | biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. |  | 7 |
| 8067952442 | Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |  | 8 |
| 8067952443 | Schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. |  | 9 |
| 8067952444 | Assimilation | interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas. | | 10 |
| 8067952445 | Accommodation | Development - adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. | | 11 |
| 8067952446 | 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. |  | 12 |
| 8067952447 | Object Permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. |  | 13 |
| 8067952448 | 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. | | 14 |
| 8067952449 | 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 |
| 8067952450 | Egocentrism | in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view. |  | 16 |
| 8067952451 | 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 |
| 8067952452 | 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. | | 18 |
| 8067952453 | 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. | | 19 |
| 8067952455 | Stranger Anxiety | the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age. |  | 20 |
| 8067952457 | Critical Period | an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. |  | 21 |
