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| Branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout life span. |
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| Fertilized Egg - rapid cell division follows, changing it into an embryo |
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| Two weeks after conception - the second month |
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| Developing human organism from 9 weeks to birth |
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| chemicals/viruses that affect a fetus or embryo during the prenatal development |
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| Physical and cognitive abnormalities that affect children, caused by their mother drinking heavily during pregnancy. |
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| Tendency of baby to open mouth when touched on the cheek |
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| decreasing responsiveness with repeated simulation |
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| biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior --> uninfluenced by experience |
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| concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
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| interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas |
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| adapting one's current understanding to incorporate new information |
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| all mental actiivities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating |
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| Birth to two years --> infants know world mostly in terms of sensory impressions and motor activities |
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| awareness that things contniue to exist even when perceived. |
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| 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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| Principle that properties such as mass, volume and numbers remain the same despite changes in form |
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| inability of the preoperational child to take another's POV |
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| People's ideas about their own and other's mental states - about their feelings, etc. |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| Stage of cognitive development (Age 12) during which people begin to think logicallly about abstract concepts |
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| fear of strangesr that infants commonly display around 8 months |
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| emotional tie with another person - shown in young children by seeking closness with care giver and showing distress when seperated |
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| optimal period after birht when thing's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development |
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| process by which animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life |
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| sense that the world is predictabler and trustworthy said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences withth responsive caregiver |
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| sense of one's identity and personal worth |
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| transition period from childhood to adulthood, extend form puberty to independence |
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| period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing |
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| primary sex chracteristics |
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| body structures (ovaries, testes, genitalia) that makes sexual reproduction possible |
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| Secondary Sex Characteristics |
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| non reproductive sezual characteristics such as female breasts and hips, male voice and body hair |
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| one's sense of self; adolescents task is to solidify a sense of self by tetsing and integrating various roles |
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| ability to form close, loving relationships -developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood |
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| Women can't have kids anymore |
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| study in which people of different ages are compared with one another |
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| research in which some people are retudied and retested over a long period |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| ones's acummulated knowledge and verbal skills which increases with age |
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| one's ability to speedily reason and think abstractly, decreases during adulthood |
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| culturally preferrred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement |
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