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AP Psych - Chapter 4
Chapter 4 - 42 words
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Psychology
12th Grade
10/08/2009

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Developmental Psychology
Definition
Branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout life span.
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Zygote
Definition
Fertilized Egg - rapid cell division follows, changing it into an embryo
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Embryo
Definition
Two weeks after conception - the second month
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Fetus
Definition
Developing human organism from 9 weeks to birth
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Teratogen
Definition
chemicals/viruses that affect a fetus or embryo during the prenatal development
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrom
Definition
Physical and cognitive abnormalities that affect children, caused by their mother drinking heavily during pregnancy.
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Rooting Reflex
Definition
Tendency of baby to open mouth when touched on the cheek
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Habituation
Definition
decreasing responsiveness with repeated simulation
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Maturation
Definition
biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior --> uninfluenced by experience
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Schema
Definition
concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
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Assimilation
Definition
interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas
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Accomodation
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adapting one's current understanding to incorporate new information
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Cognition
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all mental actiivities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating
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Sensirimotor Stage
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Birth to two years --> infants know world mostly in terms of sensory impressions and motor activities
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Object Performance
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awareness that things contniue to exist even when perceived.
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Preoperational Stage
Definition
Two to six years old during which child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concerete logic
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Conservation
Definition
Principle that properties such as mass, volume and numbers remain the same despite changes in form
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Egocentrism
Definition
inability of the preoperational child to take another's POV
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Theory of Mind
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People's ideas about their own and other's mental states - about their feelings, etc.
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Autism
Definition
disorder that appears in childhood and marked by deficient communication, social interactiona nd understanding of other's state of mind
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Concrete Operational Stage
Definition
Stage of coggnitive development (from about six to seven, to eleven) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
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Formal Operational Stage
Definition
Stage of cognitive development (Age 12) during which people begin to think logicallly about abstract concepts
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Stranger Anxiety
Definition
fear of strangesr that infants commonly display around 8 months
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attachment
Definition
emotional tie with another person - shown in young children by seeking closness with care giver and showing distress when seperated
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Critical Period
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optimal period after birht when thing's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development
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Imprinting
Definition
process by which animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life
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Basic Trust
Definition
sense that the world is predictabler and trustworthy said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences withth responsive caregiver
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Self-concept
Definition
sense of one's identity and personal worth
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adolescence
Definition
transition period from childhood to adulthood, extend form puberty to independence
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Puberty
Definition
period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing
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primary sex chracteristics
Definition
body structures (ovaries, testes, genitalia) that makes sexual reproduction possible
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Secondary Sex Characteristics
Definition
non reproductive sezual characteristics such as female breasts and hips, male voice and body hair
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menarche
Definition
First menstruation cycle
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identity
Definition
one's sense of self; adolescents task is to solidify a sense of self by tetsing and integrating various roles
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intimacy
Definition
ability to form close, loving relationships            -developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood
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Menopause
Definition
Women can't have kids anymore
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Alzheimer's Disease
Definition
detereorative disease
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Cross-sectional study
Definition
study in which people of different ages are compared with one another
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longitudinal study
Definition
research in which some people are retudied and retested over a long period
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crystallized intelligence
Definition
ones's acummulated knowledge and verbal skills which increases with age
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fluid intelligence
Definition
one's ability to speedily reason and think abstractly, decreases during adulthood
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Social Clock
Definition
culturally preferrred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement
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