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| the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span |
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| the average number of years that a person born in a particular year can expect to live |
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| biolobical and environment influences that are similar for individuals in a particular age group |
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| unusual occurences that have a major impact on a person's life. The occurance, pattern and sequence of these events are not applicable to many individuals |
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| produce changes in an individual's physical nature (genes, height and weight) |
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| changes in an individual's thought intelligence and language |
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| changes in an individual's relationships with other people, changes in emotion, and changes in personality. |
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| changes in an individual's thought, intelligence and language |
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| Developmental Periods of age groups |
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| Prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood |
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| society's age expectations. |
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| number of years elapsed since ones birth |
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1.trush vs mistrust, 1st year
2.autonomy vs shame and doubs, 1-3yr
3.initiative vs guild, 3-5yr
4. indursty vs inferiourity,6-pubery
5. identity vs identity confusion10-20
6. intimacy vs isolation,20-30
7.generativity vs stagnation,40-50
8.integrity vs despair |
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| behavior is strongly influenced by biology, tied to evolution, charactirized by critacl or sensitive periods |
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| Ethics for doing research |
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| informed consent, confidentiality, debriefing, deception |
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| complex molecule that has double helix shape, contains genetic info |
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| thread like structures made up of DNA |
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| the units of hereditary information, short segments of DNA |
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| the complete set of developmental instructions for creating proteings that initiate the making of a human organism |
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| when a mutated gene is carried on the X chormosome |
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| an extra chromosome causes mild to severe retardation and physical abnormalities |
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| Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY) |
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| an extra X chromosome causes physical abnormalities |
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| an abnormality in the X chromosomes can cause mental retardation, learnind disabilites, and short attenion span |
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| an extra Y chromosome can cause about average height |
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| delayed blood clotting cause internal and external bleeding |
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| blood disorder that limits the body's oxygen sypply, can cause joint swelling and heart or kidney failure |
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| Low amounts of platelets in the blood |
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| a failure of the bone amrrow to make enough white blood cells |
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| tiny tissue sample from the placenta is removed and analyzed |
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| a blood test that measures 3 substances in the mothers blood |
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| a sample of the amniotic fluid is withdrawn by a syringe and tested for chromosome or metabolic disorers |
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| non invasive, high frquency sound waves directed into the abdomen |
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| average baby weight in US |
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| any agent that can potentially cause a birth defect or negatively alter cognitive and behavioral outcomes |
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| actions or mental representations that organize knowlede |
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| Piagetian concept of using exsisting schemes to deal with new inforomation or experiences |
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| Piagetian concept of adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences |
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| decrease responsiveness to a stimuli after repeated presentations of the stimulus |
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| understanding that objects exists even when out of sight |
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| imitates facial expressions |
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| occus after a time delay of hours or days |
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| imitates facial expressions |
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