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| * - (Piagetian) - Adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 140) | ||
| * - The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 156) | ||
| * - A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and, finally, physical functioning. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 173) | ||
| * - Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 140) | ||
| * - An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 146) | ||
| A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 143) | ||
| 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. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 149) | ||
| All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 140) | ||
| * - 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. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 144) | ||
| * - 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. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 142) | ||
| * - An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 147) | ||
| * - A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 175) | ||
| One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 176) | ||
| * - A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 132) | ||
| * - In Piaget's theory, the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 142) | ||
| * - The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 133) | ||
| * - Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 134) | ||
| * - The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 133) | ||
| One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 177) | ||
| * - In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 145) | ||
| * - In psychology, the characteristics, whether biologically or socially influenced, by which people define male and female. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 102) | ||
| * - One's sense of being male or female. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 125) | ||
| Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 135) | ||
| 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. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 163) | ||
| * - The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 147) | ||
| In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 164) | ||
| * - Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 175) | ||
| * - Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 137) | ||
| * - The first menstrual period. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 158) | ||
| * - The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 169) | ||
| * - The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 141) | ||
| * - 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. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 142) | ||
| The body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 158) | ||
| * - The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 158) | ||
| A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 134) | ||
| * - A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 140) | ||
| Nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 158) | ||
| A sense of one's identity and personal worth. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 152) | ||
| * - 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. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 141) | ||
| The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 178) | ||
| The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 146) | ||
| * - Agents, such as some chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 133) | ||
| The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional amount in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 122) | ||
| People's ideas about their own and others' mental states - about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 143) | ||
| * - The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo. (Myers Psychology 7e p. 133) |
