Terms : Hide Images
| 3428091931 | Developmental psych | A branch of psych that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span | 0 | |
| 3428091932 | Zygote | The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo | 1 | |
| 3428091933 | Embryo | The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization to the 2nd month | 2 | |
| 3428091934 | Fetus | The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth | 3 | |
| 3428091935 | Teratogens | (Literally, "monster maker") agents, such as toxins, chemicals, and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm | 4 | |
| 3428091936 | Fetal alcohol syndrome | Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions | 5 | |
| 3428091937 | Habituation | Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner | 6 | |
| 3428091938 | Maturation | Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience | 7 | |
| 3428091939 | Critical period | An optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development | 8 | |
| 3428091940 | Cognition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 9 | |
| 3428091941 | Schema | A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information | 10 | |
| 3428091942 | Assimilation | Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas | 11 | |
| 3428091943 | Accommodation | Adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information | 12 | |
| 3428091944 | Sensorimotor stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities | 13 | |
| 3428091945 | Object permanence | The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived | 14 | |
| 3428091946 | Preoperational stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2-6 or 7) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic | 15 | |
| 3428616718 | 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 changed in the forms of objects | 16 | |
| 3428616719 | Egocentrism | In Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view | 17 | |
| 3428616720 | Theory of mind | People's ideas about their own and others' mental states-about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors that might precede | 18 | |
| 3428616721 | Concrete operational stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6-11) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events | 19 | |
| 3428616722 | Formal operational stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally about 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts | 20 | |
| 3428616723 | Autism | A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind | 21 | |
| 3431126788 | Stranger anxiety | The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months | 22 | |
| 3431126789 | Attachment | An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress upon separation | 23 | |
| 3431126790 | Imprinting | The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life | 24 | |
| 3431126791 | Temperament | A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity | 25 | |
| 3431126792 | Basic trust | According to Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers | 26 | |
| 3465017466 | Adolescence | The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence | 27 | |
| 3465017467 | Puberty | The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing | 28 | |
| 3465017468 | Identity | Our sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles | 29 | |
| 3465017469 | Social identity | The "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "Who am I" that comes from our group memberships | 30 | |
| 3465017470 | Intimacy | In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood | 31 | |
| 3465017471 | Emerging adulthood | For some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to mid-twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood | 32 | |
| 3465017472 | Menopause | The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines | 33 | |
| 3465017473 | Cross-sectional study | A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another | 34 | |
| 3465017474 | Longitudinal study | Research in which the same people are testified and retested over a long period | 35 | |
| 3465017475 | Social clock | The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement | 36 |
