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| 38923097 | Developmental Psychology | a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. | |
| 38923098 | Zygote | the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo | |
| 38923099 | Embryo | the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month | |
| 38923100 | Fetus | the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth. | |
| 38923101 | Teratogens | agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm | |
| 38923102 | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking | |
| 38923103 | Rooting Reflex | a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple | |
| 38923104 | Habituation | decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation | |
| 38923105 | Maturation | biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience | |
| 38923106 | Schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information | |
| 38923107 | Assimilation | interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas | |
| 38923108 | Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | |
| 38923109 | 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 | |
| 38923110 | Object Permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived | |
| 38923111 | Preoperational Stage | in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 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 | |
| 38923112 | 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 | |
| 38923113 | Egocentrism | in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view | |
| 38923114 | Theory of Mind | people's ideas about their own and others' mental states -- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict | |
| 38923115 | Autism | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind | |
| 38923116 | 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 | |
| 38923117 | Stranger Anxiety | the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age | |
| 38923118 | Attachment | an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation | |
| 38923119 | Critical Period | an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development | |
| 38923120 | Imprinting | the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life | |
| 38923121 | 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 | |
| 38923122 | Self-Concept | A sense of one's identity and personal worth | |
| 38923123 | Adolescence | the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence | |
| 38923124 | Puberty | the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing | |
| 38923125 | Primary Sex Characteristics | the body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible | |
| 38923126 | Secondary Sex Characteristics | nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair | |
| 38923127 | Menarche | the first menstrual period | |
| 38923128 | Identity | one's sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles | |
| 38923129 | Intimacy | in Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood | |
| 38923130 | Menopause | the time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines | |
| 38923131 | Alzheimer's Disease | an irreversible, progressive brain disorder, characterized by the deterioration of memory, language, and eventually, physical functioning | |
| 38923132 | Cross-Sectional Study | A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another | |
| 38923133 | Longitudinal Study | Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period | |
| 38923134 | Crystallized Intelligence | one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age | |
| 38923135 | Fluid Intelligence | one's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood | |
| 38923136 | Social Clock | the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement | |
| 38923137 | 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 objects |
