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| The paattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throughout life, involving both growth and decline. |
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| An individual's biological inheritance especially his or her genes. |
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| An indiviual's environmental and social experiences |
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| A person's ability to recover from or adapt to difficult times. |
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| A research technique that involves giving an infant a choice of what object to look at |
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| An individual's incorporation of new information into existing knowledge |
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| An individual's adjustment of his or her schemas to new information |
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| Piaget's first stage of cognitive development, lasting from birth to about 2 years of age, during which infants construct and understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with motor actions |
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| Piaget's second stage of cognitive development, lasting from about 2 to 7 years of age, during which thought is more symbolic than sensorimotor thought |
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| Concrete Operational Stage |
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| Piaget's third stage of cognitive development, lasting from about 7 to 11 years of age, during which the individual uses operations and replaces intuitive reasoning with logical reasoning in concrete situations |
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| Piaget's fourth stage of cognitive development which begins at 11 to 15 years of age and continues through the adult years; it features thinking about things that are not concrete making predicitons, and using logic to come up with hypotheses about the future |
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| An individual's behavior style and characteristic way of responding |
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| The close emotional bond between an infant and its caregiver |
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| The ways that infants use their caregiver, usually their mother, as a secure base from which to explore the enviroment |
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| A restricitve, punitive style in which parent exhorts the child to follow the parent's directions and to value hard work and effort |
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| A parenting style that encourages the child to be independent but that still places limits and controls on behavior |
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| A parenting style characterized by a lack of parental involvement in the child's life |
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| A parenting style charcterized by the placement of few limits on the child's behavior |
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| Behavior that is intended to benefit other people. |
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| A period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs maily in early adolescence |
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| The main class of male sex hormones |
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| The main class of female sex hormones |
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| Identity vs. Identity Confusion |
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| Erikson's fifth psychology stage, in which adolescents face the challenges of finding out who they are what they are all about, and where they are going in life |
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| The transitional period from adolescene to adulthood, spanning approximately 18 to 25 years of age |
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| Expert knowledge about the pracitcal aspects of life |
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