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| 8616272490 | Developmental Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social changes throughout life span | 0 | |
| 8616272491 | Zygote | The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo | 1 | |
| 8616272492 | Embryo | The developing human organism form about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month. | 2 | |
| 8616272493 | Fetus | The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth. | 3 | |
| 8616272494 | Teratogens | Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm | 4 | |
| 8616272495 | (FAS) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In several cases, symptoms include noticeable misperceptions | 5 | |
| 8616272496 | Habituation | Decreasing responsiveness with stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interests wanes and they look away sooner | 6 | |
| 8616272497 | Maturation | Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience | 7 | |
| 8616272498 | Cognition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 8 | |
| 8616272499 | Schema | A concert or framework that organizes and interprets information. | 9 | |
| 8616272500 | Assimilation | Interpreting out new experiences in terms of our existing schemas | 10 | |
| 8616272501 | Accommodation | Adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information | 11 | |
| 8616272502 | 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 | |
| 8616272503 | Object Permanence | The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived | 13 | |
| 8616272504 | Peroperational 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 | |
| 8616272505 | Conservation | The principal (which Piaget's believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the form of objects | 15 | |
| 8616272506 | Egocentrism | In Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty thinking another's point of view | 16 | |
| 8616272507 | Theory of Mind | People's ideas about their own and other's mental states- about feelings, perception,and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict | 17 | |
| 8616272508 | 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 | |
| 8616272509 | 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 | |
| 8616272510 | Stranger Anxiety | The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age | 20 | |
| 8616272511 | Attachment | An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation | 21 | |
| 8616272512 | Imprinting | The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life | 22 | |
| 8616272513 | Temperament | A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity | 23 | |
| 8616272514 | 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 | 24 | |
| 8616272515 | Self concept | Our understanding and evaluation of who we are | 25 | |
| 8616272516 | Gender | In psychology, the biological and socially influenced characteristics by which people define male and female | 26 | |
| 8616272517 | Aggression | Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone | 27 | |
| 8616272518 | X Chromosome | The sex chromosome found in both men and women. Females have two X chromosomes; males have one. An X chromosome from each parent produces a female child | 28 | |
| 8616272519 | Y Chromosome | The sex chromosomes found only in male. When paired with and X chromosome from the mother, it produces a male child. | 29 | |
| 8616272520 | Testosterone | The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and development of the male sex characteristics during puberty | 30 | |
| 8616272521 | Gender Role | A set of expected behaviors for males or for females | 31 | |
| 8616272522 | Gender Identity | Our sense of being male or female | 32 | |
| 8616272523 | Gender Typing | The acquisition of a transitional masculine or feminine role | 33 | |
| 8616272524 | Social Learning Theory | The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished. | 34 | |
| 8616272525 | Adolescence | The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence | 35 | |
| 8616272526 | Puberty | The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing | 36 | |
| 8616272527 | Primary Sex Characteristics | The body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible | 37 | |
| 8616272528 | Secondary Sex Characteristics | Nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair | 38 | |
| 8616272529 | Menarche | The first menstrual period | 39 | |
| 8616272530 | 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 | 40 | |
| 8616272531 | Social Identity | The "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships. | 41 | |
| 8616272532 | Intimacy | In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationship; a primary developmental task in kayer adolescence and early adulthood | 42 | |
| 8616272533 | 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. | 43 | |
| 8616272534 | Menopause | The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines | 44 | |
| 8616272535 | Cross-sectional Studies | A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another | 45 | |
| 8616272536 | Longitudinally | Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period. | 46 | |
| 8616272537 | Crystallized Intelligence | Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age. | 47 | |
| 8616272538 | Fluid Intelligence | our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood | 48 | |
| 8616272539 | Social Clock | The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement | 49 | |
| 8616272540 | Autism | A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of other's states of mind | 50 | |
| 8616272541 | placenta | organ that attaches a fetus to the uterine wall and allows for nutrient uptake. It provides thermo-regulation to the fetus, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply | 51 | |
| 8616272542 | critical period | specific time during which an organism has to experience stimuli in order to progress through developmental stages properly | 52 | |
| 8616272543 | self esteem | understanding a person creates of his or her worth, based on emotions and beliefs about how he or she fits into or performs in any given situation in life | 53 | |
| 8616272544 | authoritarian (parenting style) | restrictive style that emphasizes respect for work and effort. This style of parenting allows for little discussion or explanation of the firm controls placed on the child | 54 | |
| 8616272545 | permissive (parenting) | parenting style that is characterized by having few and inconsistent rules and a relaxed attitude to parenting that is more like a friend than a parent;exhibit very loving and nurturing behavior towards their children and frequently use bribery in order to get them to behave;Children raised in this parenting style can exhibit insecure behaviors, lack social skills like sharing, be demanding, lack self-discipline and possibly be more likely to use alcohol or drugs | 55 | |
| 8616272546 | authoritative (parenting) | child-centered, in that parents closely interact with their children, while maintaining high expectations for behavior and performance, as well as a firm adherence to schedules and discipline | 56 | |
| 8616272547 | male answer syndrome | A male compulsion to answer questions regardless of whether one knows the answer; especially in the presence of women | 57 | |
| 8616272548 | tend and befriend | hypothesized stress response reaction that prompts humans to protect their own children, other children, people who are hurt or vulnerable, and to join humanitarian-oriented social groups that are intended to reduce human suffering; common in women | 58 | |
| 8616272549 | selection effect | selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed. | 59 | |
| 8616272550 | preconventional morality | Reasoners at this level judge the morality of an action by its direct consequences; has not yet adopted or internalized society's conventions regarding what is right or wrong but instead focuses largely on external consequences that certain actions may bring | 60 | |
| 8616272551 | conventional morality | judge the morality of actions by comparing them to society's views and expectations; characterized by an acceptance of society's conventions concerning right and wrong. At this level an individual obeys rules and follows society's norms even when there are no consequences for obedience or disobedience | 61 | |
| 8616272552 | postconventional morality | growing realization that individuals are separate entities from society, and that the individual's own perspective may take precedence over society's view; individuals may disobey rules inconsistent with their own principles; live by their own ethical principles | 62 | |
| 8616272553 | alzheimer's disease | form of dementia, or decreasing mental capacity, most often seen in people older than 65. Some of the earliest signs include memory loss and confusion. Other signs as the disease progresses are aggression and mood swings and withdrawal from normal activities | 63 | |
| 8616272554 | thanatology | study of death, dying, and bereavement. It is concerned with notions and attitudes about death, including those of the dying, and how they and people around them deal with their imminent death | 64 | |
| 8616272555 | adolescent egocentrism | describes the tendency for adolescents to have differing perceptions between what they believe others think about them and what other people actually think about them | 65 | |
| 8616272556 | imaginary audience | refers to an egocentric state where an individual imagines and believes that multitudes of people are enthusiastically listening to or watching him or her. Though this state is often exhibited in young adolescence, people of any age may harbor a fantasy of an imaginary audience | 66 | |
| 8616272557 | ego identity status | The sense of connection or belonging between a person and a particular social-religious, or political group, the values of which a person shares | 67 |
