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| 6079577858 | developmental psychology | a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span | 0 | |
| 6079577859 | zygote | the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo | 1 | |
| 6079577860 | embryo | the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month | 2 | |
| 6079577861 | fetus | the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth | 3 | |
| 6079577862 | teratogens | agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm | 4 | |
| 6079577863 | fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) | physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial mis-proportions | 5 | |
| 6079577864 | 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 | |
| 6079577865 | maturation | biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience | 7 | |
| 6079577866 | cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 8 | |
| 6079577867 | schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information | 9 | |
| 6079577868 | assimilation | interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas | 10 | |
| 6079577869 | accommodation | the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina | 11 | |
| 6079577870 | 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 | 12 | |
| 6079577871 | object permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived | 13 | |
| 6079577872 | 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 | 14 | |
| 6079577873 | conservation | Ability to recognize that objects can be transformed in some way, visually or phycially, yet still be the same in number, weight, substance, or volume | 15 | |
| 6079577874 | egocentrism | in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view | 16 | |
| 6079577875 | theory of mind | people's ideas about their own and others' mental states—about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict | 17 | |
| 6079577876 | 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 | 18 | |
| 6079577877 | 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 concepts. | 19 | |
| 6079577878 | autism | Autism is one of three disorders in Autism Spectrum disorder. It is related to brain abnormalities, but the cause is debated. | 20 | |
| 6079577879 | stranger anxiety | Although many people might get anxious around strangers, this term refers to a developmental situation in which infants become anxious and fearful around strangers. | 21 | |
| 6079577880 | attachment | Attachment can pertain to all people, regardless of age, but typically relates to the attachment between children and caregivers | 22 | |
| 6079577881 | Critical Period | an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development | 23 | |
| 6079577882 | imprinting | (of a young animal) come to recognize (another animal, person, or thing) as a parent or other object of habitual trust. | 24 | |
| 6079577883 | temperament | Temperament refers to the characteristics and aspects of personality that we are born with. | 25 | |
| 6079577884 | basic trust | children who have secure attachments with their parents have a general sense that the world is predictable and reliable (this is basic trust) | 26 | |
| 6079577885 | self concept | an idea of the self constructed from the beliefs one holds about oneself and the responses of others. | 27 | |
| 6079577886 | gender typing | . Gender typing is when children acquire these masculine and/or feminine roles and identify with these roles. | 28 | |
| 6079577887 | social learning theory | This theory, made famous by Albert Bandura, states that social behavior (any type of behavior that we display socially) is learned primarily by observing and imitating the actions of others. | 29 | |
| 6079577888 | gender | the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones). | 30 | |
| 6079577889 | aggression | aggression is any form of behavior that is intended to harm or injure some person, oneself, or an object. | 31 | |
| 6079577890 | x chromosome | the sex chromosome found in both men and women. Females have two X chromosomes; males have one. An X chromosome from each parent produces a female child | 32 | |
| 6079577891 | y chromosome | the sex chromosome found only in males. When paired with an X chromosome from the mother, it produces a male child | 33 | |
| 6079577892 | testosterone | testosterone is a very important male sex hormone. Although it is considered a male sex hormone, women do have it, just in lesser quantities than men. | 34 | |
| 6079577893 | gender role | Gender role is a set of expectations held by society about the ways in which men and women are supposed to behave based on their gender. | 35 | |
| 6079577894 | gender identity | Gender identity is one's own perception or sense of being male or female. | 36 | |
| 6079577895 | adolescence | The developmental stage that occurs from puberty to maturity, lasting from about ages 12 to 18 (there is some debate about the exact age range, but 12-18 is a commonly accepted range) | 37 | |
| 6079577896 | puberty | Puberty is the time period between childhood and adulthood when physical changes allow for reproduction | 38 | |
| 6079577897 | primary sex characteristics | primary sex characteristics are body structures that are specific to sex. Females have ovaries whereas men have testes. | 39 | |
| 6079577898 | secondary sex characteristics | These are the physical features other than reproductive orgrans that distinguish men from women. Unlike primary sex characteristics which are the main sex-specific reproductive organs (i.e., ovaries and testes), secondary sex characteristics are nonreporductive sexual characteristics such as breasts (on females) and an adam's apple on men. | 40 | |
| 6079577899 | menarche | This is a very straight forward one - menarche is a female's first menstrual cycle...when a girl has her first "period". | 41 | |
| 6079577900 | social identity | This theory addresses the ways in which people perceive and categorize themselves. According to social identity theory, individuals form self-conceptions that are based on two parts: 1) personal or self identity, and 2) collective identity. | 42 | |
| 6079577901 | intimacy | This term comes from Erikson's theory of development, and refers to a person's ability form close, loving relationships, which he stated is the primary developmental task of early adulthood. | 43 | |
| 6079577902 | emerging adulthood | Emerging adulthood is a developmental phase that spans between adolescence and adulthood. | 44 |
