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| the study of continuity and change across the life span |
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| a single cell that contains chromosomes from both a sperm and an egg |
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| the 2-week period of prenatal development that begins at conception |
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| the period of prenatal development that lasts from the second week until about the eighth week |
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| the period of prenatal development that lasts from the ninth week until birth |
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| the formation of a fatty sheath around the axons of a brain cell |
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| against that damage the process of development, such as drugs and viruses |
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| fetal alcohol syndrom (FAS) |
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| a developmental disorder that stems from heavy alcohol use by the mother during pregnancy |
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| the stage of development that begins at birth and lasts between 18 and 24 months |
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| the emergence of the ability to execute physical action |
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| specific patterns of motor response that are triggered by specific patterns of sensory stimulation |
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| the "top to bottom" rule that describes the tendency for motor skills to emerge in sequence from the head to the feet |
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| the "inside to outside" rule that describes the tendency for motor skills to energy in sequence from the center to the periphery |
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| the emergence of the ability to understand the world |
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| a stage of development that begins at birth and lasts through infancy in which infants acquire information about the world by sensing it and moving around within it |
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| theories about or models of the way the world works |
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| the process by which infants apply their schemas in novel situations |
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| the process by which infants revise their schemas in light of new information |
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| the idea that objects continue to exist even when they are not visible |
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| the stage of development that begins at about 18 to 24 months and lasts until adolescence |
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| the stage of development that begins at about 2 years old and ends at about 6 years, in with children have a preliminary understanding of the physical world |
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| concrete operational stage |
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| the stage of development that begins at about 6 years and ends at about 11 years, in which children acquire basic understanding of the physical world and a preliminary understanding of their own and others' minds |
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| the notion that the quantitative properties of an object are invariant despite changes in the objects appearance |
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| the stage of development that begins around the age of 11 and lasts through adulthood, in which children gain a deeper understanding of their own and others' minds and learn to reason abstractly |
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| the failure to understand that the world appears differently to different observers |
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| the idea that human behavior is guided by mental representation, which gives rise to the realization that the world is not always the way it looks and that different people see it differently |
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| the emotional bond that forms between newborns and their primary caregiver |
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| internal working model of attachment |
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| a set of expectations about how the primary caregiver will respond when the child feels insecure |
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| characteristic patterns of emotional reactivity |
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| a stage of moral development in wihc the morality of an action is primarily determined by its consequences for the actor |
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| a stage of moral development in which the morality of an action is primarily determined by the extent to with it conforms to social rules |
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| a stage of moral development at which the morality of an action is determined by a set of general principles that reflect core values |
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| the period of development that begins with the onset of sexual maturity (about 11 to 14) and lasts until the beginning of adulthood (18 to 21) |
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| the bodily changes associated with sexual maturity |
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| bodily structures that are directly involved in reproduction |
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| secondary sex characteristics |
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| bodily structures that change dramatically with sexual maturity but that are not directly involved in reproduction |
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| the stage of development that begins around 18 to 21 years and ends at death |
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