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| 33749804 | zygote | the fertilized egg; it enters a two-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo | |
| 33749805 | embryo | the developing human organism from about two weeks after fertilization through the second month | |
| 33749806 | fetus | The developing human or organism from nine weeks after conceptoion to birth | |
| 33749807 | Teratogens | agnets, such as chemical and virus, they can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal devlopment cause harm | |
| 33970174 | Prenatal development | 1. Zygote 2. Embryo 3. Fetus | |
| 33970175 | Fetal alcohol syndrome | Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. | |
| 33970176 | Fetal alcohol syndrome (serious cases) | In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions. | |
| 33970177 | Rooting reflex | A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn toward touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple. | |
| 33970178 | Habituation | Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As intense gains familiarity with his exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner. | |
| 33970179 | Maturation | Biological growth process that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. | |
| 33970180 | Schema | A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. | |
| 33970181 | Assimilation | Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one existing schemas. | |
| 33970182 | Accommodation | Adapting one's current understandings [schema] to incorporate new information. | |
| 33970183 | Cognition | All the mental light to that is associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | |
| 33970184 | Sensorimotor stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities. Birth to about two years of age | |
| 33970185 | Object permanence | The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. | |
| 33970186 | Preoperational stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic. From about two years of age to six or seven years of age. | |
| 33970187 | Conservation | The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in forms of objects. Piaget believed this to be part of the concrete operational reasoning. | |
| 33970188 | Theory of mind | Peoples ideas about their own and others' mental states - about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict. | |
| 33970189 | Autism | A disorder that appears in childhood and is more quite efficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of other states of mind. | |
| 33970190 | Concrete operational stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. | |
| 33970191 | Formal operational stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts. Normaly starting about age 12. | |
| 33970192 | Stranger anxiety | The fear of strangers that infants calmly display, beginning by about eight months of age. | |
| 33970193 | Attachment | An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation. | |
| 33970194 | Critical period | An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. | |
| 33970195 | Imprinting | The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life. | |
| 33970196 | 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. | |
| 33970197 | Self-concept | A sense of one's identity and personal worth. | |
| 33970198 | Adolescents | The transition period from childhood to adulthood extending from puberty to independence. | |
| 33970199 | Primary sex characteristics | The body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that makes sexual reproduction possible. | |
| 33970200 | Secondary Sex Characteristics | Nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair. | |
| 33970201 | Menarche | First menstrual period | |
| 33970202 | Identity | One's sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles. | |
| 33970693 | Intimacy | In Erikson's theory, the ability to form loving relationships; a primary development task in late adolescence and early adulthood. | |
| 33970694 | Menopause | The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers the biological change a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines. | |
| 33970695 | Alzheimer's disease | A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and, finally, the physical functioning. | |
| 33970696 | Cross-sectional study | A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another. | |
| 33970697 | Longitudinal study | Research in which the same people are restudy then retested over a long period. | |
| 33970698 | Crystallized intelligence | One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age. | |
| 33970699 | Fluid intelligence | One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood. | |
| 33970700 | Love | Intimacy, attachment, commitment - lulled by whatever name - is central to healthy and happy adulthood. |
