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| A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span | ||
| The fertilized egg - it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo | ||
| The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month | ||
| The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth | ||
| Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm | ||
| Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking - in severe cases, symptoms include noticable facial misproportions | ||
| A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple | ||
| Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation | ||
| Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively unifluenced by experience | ||
| A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information | ||
| Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas | ||
| Adapting one's current understanding to incorporate new information | ||
| All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | ||
| In Piaget's theory, the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities | ||
| The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived | ||
| 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 | ||
| The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objetcs | ||
| In Piaget's theory, the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view | ||
| People's ideas about their own and other's mental states - feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and behaviors | ||
| A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind | ||
| 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 | ||
| In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts | ||
| An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development | ||
| The process by which certain animals from attachments during a critical period very early in life | ||
| According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy | ||
| A sense of one's identity and personal worth | ||
| The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending fro puberty to independence | ||
| The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing | ||
| The body structures that make sexual reproduction possible | ||
| Nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, and male voice quality, and body hair | ||
| The first menstrual period | ||
| 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 | ||
| In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships | ||
| The time of natural cessation of menstruation | ||
| A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and physical functioning | ||
| A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another | ||
| Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period | ||
| One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends ti increase with age | ||
| One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends ot decrease during late adulthood | ||
| The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood,and retirement |
