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| 5535378488 | Development Psychology | a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span | 0 | |
| 5535378489 | Zygote | the fertilized egg; it enters a 2 week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo |  | 1 |
| 5535378490 | Embryo | the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month |  | 2 |
| 5535378491 | Fetus | the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth |  | 3 |
| 5535378492 | Teratogens | agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can cause harm to the embryo or fetus during prenatal development |  | 4 |
| 5535378493 | 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 misproportions |  | 5 |
| 5535378494 | Rooting Reflex | a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple |  | 6 |
| 5535378495 | 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 | 7 | |
| 5535378496 | Maturation | biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience |  | 8 |
| 5535378497 | Schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |  | 9 |
| 5535378498 | Assimilation | interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas |  | 10 |
| 5535378499 | Accomodation | adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information |  | 11 |
| 5535378500 | Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |  | 12 |
| 5535378501 | 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 |  | 13 |
| 5535378502 | Object Permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not percieved |  | 14 |
| 5535378503 | 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 |  | 15 |
| 5535378504 | 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 changes in the forms of objects |  | 16 |
| 5535378505 | Egocentrism | in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking other's points of view |  | 17 |
| 5535378506 | Theory of Mind | people's ideas about their own and others' mental states -- their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts -- and the behavior these might predict |  | 18 |
| 5535378507 | Autism | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of minds |  | 19 |
| 5535378508 | 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 | 20 | |
| 5535378509 | 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 | 21 | |
| 5535378510 | Stranger Anxiety | the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age |  | 22 |
| 5535378511 | Attachment | an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation |  | 23 |
| 5535378512 | Critical Period | an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development |  | 24 |
| 5535378513 | Imprinting | the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life |  | 25 |
| 5535378514 | Basic Trust | 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 |  | 26 |
| 5535378515 | Self-Concept | a sense of one's identity and personal worth |  | 27 |
| 5535378516 | Adolescence | the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence |  | 28 |
| 5535378517 | Puberty | the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing |  | 29 |
| 5535378518 | Primary Sex Characteristics | the body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible | 30 | |
| 5535378519 | Secondary Sex Characteristics | non-reproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair | 31 | |
| 5535378520 | Menarche | the first menstrual period |  | 32 |
| 5535378521 | 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 |  | 33 |
| 5535378522 | Intimacy | in Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary development task in late adolescence and early adulthood |  | 34 |
| 5535378523 | Menopause | the time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines |  | 35 |
| 5535378524 | Alzheimer's Disease | a progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and finally physical functioning |  | 36 |
| 5535378525 | Cross-Sectional Study | a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another |  | 37 |
| 5535378526 | Longitudinal Study | Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period of time |  | 38 |
| 5535378527 | Crystallized Intelligence | one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age |  | 39 |
| 5535378528 | Fluid Intelligence | one's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood | | 40 |
| 5535378529 | Social Clock | the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement |  | 41 |
