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| branch of psychology concerned with physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span |
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| fertilized egg, cluster of cells formed during conception by the union of sperm and egg |
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| developing prenatal organism from about 2 weeks through 2 months after conception |
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| chemicals and viruses that cross the mother's placenta and car harm the developing embryo or fetus |
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| how bored a baby gets while presented an object |
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| biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience or other environmental factors |
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| mental concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information |
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| interpreting a new experience in terms of an existing schema |
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| changing an existing schema to incorporate new information that cannot be assimilated |
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Piaget #1 cognitive stages age 0-2 infants gain knowledge of the world through senses and their motor activities
* object permenance |
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2-7 years old Piaget #2 cognitive stages
language development is rapid, but the child is unable to understand the mental operations of concrete logic
*conservation
*egocentrism - only view the world through their perspective |
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| our ideas about our own and others' thoughts, feelings, and perceptions and the behaviors these might predict constitute |
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| Concrete operational stage |
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| 6-11 piaget #3 children can think logically about concrete events and objects |
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| 12 piaget #4 people begin to think logically about abstract concepts |
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| the fear of strangers that infants begin to display by about 8 months of age |
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| emotional tie with another person, shown in young children by seeking closeness to a caregiver and showing distress on seperation |
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| according to erickson, this is a sense that the world is predictable and trustwortyh, a concept that infants form if their needs are met by responsive caregiving |
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| our understanding and evaluation of who we are |
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| according to erickson, establishing one's sense of self, is the primary task of adolescence |
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| ericksons theory, ability to establish close, loving relationships is the promary task of late adolescene and early adulthood |
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| people of different ages are compared with one another |
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| the same people are tested and retested over a period of years |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| intellectual ability such as general knowledge, vocabulary that reflect accumulated learning |
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| reason speedily and abstractly |
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