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| 8289386 | Develepmental Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span | |
| 8289387 | Zygote | The fertilized egg; it enters a 2 week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo | |
| 8289388 | Embryo | The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month | |
| 8289389 | Fetus | The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth | |
| 8289390 | Teratogens | Agents, such as chemicals or viruses, that can reach the embryo and or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm | |
| 8289391 | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) | Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children cause by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking | |
| 8289392 | Rooting Reflex | A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple | |
| 8289393 | Habituation | Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation | |
| 8289394 | Maturation | Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience | |
| 8289395 | Schema | A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information | |
| 8289396 | Assimilation | Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas | |
| 8289397 | Accommodation | Adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new information | |
| 8289398 | Cognition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering | |
| 8289716 | Sensorimotor Stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage (birth to 2 yrs) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities | |
| 8289717 | Object Permanence | The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived | |
| 8289718 | Preoperational Stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage (2 to 6/7yrs) during which child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic | |
| 8289719 | Conservation | The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects | |
| 8289720 | Egocentrism | In Piaget's theory, the inability of the preoperation child to take another's point of view | |
| 8289721 | 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 | |
| 8289722 | Concrete Operational Stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage (6/7 to 11yrs) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events | |
| 8289723 | Formal Operation Stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage (12+) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts | |
| 8289724 | Stranger Anxiety | The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning around 8 months old | |
| 8289725 | Attachment | An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking of closeness to the caregiver and showing distress when separated | |
| 8289726 | Critical Period | An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development | |
| 8289727 | Imprinting | The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life | |
| 8289728 | Basic Trust | According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy | |
| 8289729 | Self-concept | A sense of one's identity and personal worth | |
| 8289730 | Adolescence | The transition from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence | |
| 8289731 | Puberty | The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing | |
| 8289732 | Primary Sex Characteristics | The body stuctures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible | |
| 8289733 | Secondard Sex Characteristics | Nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair | |
| 8289734 | Menarche | The first menstrual period | |
| 8289735 | 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 | |
| 8289819 | Intimacy | In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships which is a primary task in late adolescence and early adulthood | |
| 8289820 | Menopause | The time of natural cessation of menstruation and the changes a woman experiences when her ability to reproduce declines | |
| 8289821 | Alzheimer's Disease | A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and finally physical functioning | |
| 8289822 | Cross-sectional Study | A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another | |
| 8289823 | Longitudal Study | Research in which the same people are restudies and retested over a long period | |
| 8289824 | Crystallized Intelligence | One's accumilated knowledge and verbal skills which tends to increase with age | |
| 8289825 | Fluid Intellidence | One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly which tends to decrease during late adulthood | |
| 8289826 | Social Clock | The culturally preferred timing of social events as marriage, parenthood, and retirement |
