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Developmental Psychology
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Psychology
12th Grade
01/23/2012

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Developmental Psychology
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Maturation
Definition
the rate someone matures
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Zygote
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attaches to the egg
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Embryo
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after it fertalizes
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Fetus
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from third month till birth
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Teratogen
Definition
harmful substances like alcohol
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Critical Period
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an interval during which certain times of growth must occur
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Fetal Alchohol Syndrome
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physical and mental defects found in women who abuse alcohol
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Reflexes
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unlearned innate reaction, sucking, rooting and grasping
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Schemas
Definition
Assimilation:process of trying out existing schemas on objects that fit the schema
Accommodation: process of modifying schemas when familiar schemas dont work.
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Piaget's 4 Stages
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sensorimotor:motor skills object permanence, preoperational:using schemas and animism and egocentric, concrete operational:language, reversability and conservation, and formal operational:abstract thinking
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Animism
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Serialism
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Temperament
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easy, difficult, or slow to warm up
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Attachment
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secure and insecure attachment:avoident, ambivilant, disorganized
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Parenting
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Authoritarian
Permissive
Authoritative
Uninvolved
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Self Regulation
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Gender Roles
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Sexual Identity
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Resilience
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Ethnic Identity
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Kohlberg's Stages
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preconventional:selfish, conventional:following rules, postconventional: moral judgements based on personal standards
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Identity crises
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Menopause
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Dialectical thinking
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knowledge is relative and not resolute
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Alzheimer's
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Midlife transition
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Generativity
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Terminal Drop
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