1007316471 | Androgyny | the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics | 0 | |
1007316472 | Animism | The belief that all things are living | 1 | |
1007316473 | anxious ambivalent attachment | Suspicious of strangers | 2 | |
1007316474 | Attachment | A close emotional bond of affection between infants and their caregivers | 3 | |
1007316475 | Avoidant attachment | Children who avoid parents and caregivers | 4 | |
1007316476 | Cephalocaudal trend | The head to foot direction of motor development | 5 | |
1007316477 | Concrete operational period | The development of mental operations marks the beginning of this concrete operational period children can perform operations only on images of tangible objects and actual events | 6 | |
1007316478 | Conservation | Piagets term for the awareness of physical quantities remain constant in spite of changes in the shape or appearance | 7 | |
1007316479 | Dementia | An abnormal condition marked by multiple cognitive defects that include memory impairment | 8 | |
1007316480 | Dishabituation | An increase in the strength of the habited response elicited by a new stimulus | 9 | |
1007316481 | Egocentrism | A limited ability to share another persons viewpoint | 10 | |
1007316482 | fetal alcohol syndrome | A collection of inborn problems associated with excessive alcohol use during pregnancy | 11 | |
1007316483 | Formal operational period | Children begin to apply their operations to abstract concepts in addition to concrete objects | 12 | |
1007316484 | Grasping reflex | a reflected action or movement; the sum total of any particular automatic response mediated by the nervous system. | 13 | |
1007316485 | Habituation | A gradual reduction in the strength of a response when a stimulus event is presented repeatedly | 14 | |
1007316486 | Infantile amnesia | And inability to remember experiences from ones early years | 15 | |
1007316487 | Irreversibility | Inability to envision reversing an act | 16 | |
1007316488 | Maturation | Development that reflects the gradual unfolding a one's genetic blueprint | 17 | |
1007316489 | Menarche | The first occurence of menstruation | 18 | |
1007316490 | Midlife crisis | A difficult turbulent doubts and reappraisal of ones life | 19 | |
1007316491 | Motor development | The progression of muscular coordination required for physical activities | 20 | |
1007316492 | Object permanence | Recognizing that objects continue to exist even when they are no longer visible | 21 | |
1007316493 | Preoperational period | Children become adept to using signals but are also egocentric. | 22 | |
1007316494 | Primary and secondary sex characteristics | Primary characteristics involve the sexual structures necessary for reproduction secondary sex characteristics include physical features that are associated with gender but that are not directly involved and reproduction | 23 | |
1007316495 | Rooting reflex | reflex consisting of head-turning and sucking movements elicited in the normal infant | 24 | |
1007316496 | Sensorimotor period | At this stage, individuals learn through the senses. Cognitive development is built through the infant's interactions with the environment. The sensorimotor period is broken down into six substages. | 25 | |
1007316497 | Separation anxiety | Emotional distress seen in many instances when they are separated from people with him they have formed an attachment | 26 | |
1007316498 | Secure attachment | Visibly upset when their caregivers leave. Happy when they return. Feel safest around caregivers. | 27 | |
1007316499 | Social clock | The person's notion of the development schedule that specifies what he or she should have accomplished in life | 28 | |
1007316500 | Temperament | And individuals characteristic mood activity level and emotional reactivity | 29 |
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