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1. process by which muscles change the shape of the lens of the eye by flattening it to focus on distant objects or by thickening it to focus on closer objects 2. process by whihc aschema is adapted or expanded to incorporate a new experience that does not easily fit into an existing schema |
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| transitional period between childhood and adulthood |
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| process by which a new experience is placed into an existing schema |
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| a stong emotional connection that persists over time and across cicumstances |
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| concrete operational stage |
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| the third state in piaget's theory of cognitive development, durning which children begin to think about and understand operations in ways that are reversible |
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| the time in whcih certain experiences must occur for normal brain development, such as exposureto visual information during infancy for normal development of the brains visual pathways |
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| the study of changes in physiology, cognition, and social behavior over the life span |
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| the final stage in the piagets theory of cognitive development; it involves the ability to think abstactly and to formulate and test huypotheses throught deductive logic |
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| a term that refers to the culturally constructed differences between males and females |
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| personal beliefs about whether one is male or female |
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| the characteristics associated with men and women because of cultural influence or learning |
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| cognitive structures that influence how people perceive the behaviors of men and women |
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| the inability to remember evens from the early childhood |
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| the understancding that an object continues to exist even when it cannot be seen |
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| the tendency for humans to pay more attention to novel stimuli |
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| the second stage of piagets theory of cognitive development during which children think symbolically about objects, but reason is based on appearance rather than logic |
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