AP Psych: List 3 (pt. 1)

92828972	Developmental Psychologists	Psychologists who seek to understand, describe, and explore how behavior and mental processes change over the course of a life time.
92828973	Zygote	The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.
92828974	Embryo	The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month.
92828975	Fetus	The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth.
92828976	Teratogens	Agents, such as chemicals or viruses, that can reach the embryo and or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
92828977	Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)	Cognitive and physical abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking.
92828978	Rooting Reflex	A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple.
92828979	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.
92828980	Maturation	Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.
92828981	Jean Piaget	Psychologist who created the four stages of cognitive development. Thought babies were dumber than they were.
92828982	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.
92828983	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.
92828984	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.
92828985	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.
92828986	Schemas	Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information.
92828987	Assimilate	To interpert experiences in terms of our current understandings (schemas).
92828988	Accommodate	To adapt current understandings to incorperate new info.
92828989	Object Permanence	The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived (Occurs at 3-7 months).
92828990	Conservation	The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.
92828991	Egocentric	A young child's inability to understand another person's perspective.
92828992	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).
92828993	Stranger Anxiety	The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age.
92828994	Attachment	An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation.
92828995	Harry Harlow	Psychologist who researched the relationship of body contact and nourishment to attachment, using monkeys and artificial mothers.
92828996	Critical Period	An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development.
92828997	Imprinting	The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.
92828998	Mary Ainsworth	Placed infants into a "Strange Situation" in order to examine attatchment to parents.
92828999	Erik Erikson	The psychologist whose theory is "Basic Trust".
92829000	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.
92829001	Self Concept	A sense of one's identity and personal worth.
92829002	Strange Situation	An observational measure of infant attachment that requires the infant to move through a series of introducions, separations, and reunions with the caregiver and an adult stranger in a prescribed order.
92829003	Skinner vs. Chomsky	Nuture vs. Nature