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| - examines how people are continually developing- physically, cognitively, and socially. |
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| - how do the genetic inheritance (our nature) and experience (the nurture we receive) influence our development. |
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is development a gradual, continuous process like riding an escalator, or does it proceed through a sequence of seperate stages, like climbing rungs on a ladder
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| - do our early personality traits persist through life, or do we become different persons as we age. |
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| - the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo. |
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| - the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month |
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| - the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth. |
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| - agent, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. |
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| - physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant women's heavy drinking, so cases there has been noticeable facial mis-perportions. |
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- decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
-as infants gain familiarity and repeated exposure to a visual stimulant their interest wares and they look away sooner. |
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| - refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |
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| - as a flower unfolds in accord with genetic instructions, so do we, in the orderly sequence of bio growth process. |
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| - a concept of framework that organizes and interprets info. |
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| - interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. |
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| - adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. |
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| - in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms their sensory impressions and motor activities. |
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| - the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. |
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| - the stages from about 2 to 7 years old during which children learns to use language but does not yet comprehend to mental operations of concrete logic. |
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| - the principle (which Piaget believed --to be part of concrete operational reasoning), that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects. |
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| - in Piaget's theory, the proportional child's difficulty taking another's point of view. |
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| - people's ideas about their own and others' mental states about their feelings, perceptions and thoughts and the behaviours these might predict |
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| Concrete Operational Stage |
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| - in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operation that enables them to think logically about concrete events. |
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| - the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning at about 8 months old. |
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| - in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts. |
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| - an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress separation. |
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| - an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experience produces proper development. |
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| - the process by which certain animals from attachments during a critical period very early in life. |
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| - according to Eric Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experience with responsive caregivers. |
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| - our understanding and evaluation of who we are. |
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| - the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence. |
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| - the period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproducing. |
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| Primary Sex Characteristics |
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| - the body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible. |
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| Secondary Sex Characteristics |
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| - non reproduction sexual characteristics such as female breasts and hips, male voices quality and body hair. |
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| - the first menstrual period |
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| - our sense of self; according to Erickson, the ad-descents task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various rules. |
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| - the "we" aspect of our self-concept; part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships. |
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| - some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to early twenties, bridging the gap between adolescents dependance and full independences and responsible adulthood. |
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| - some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to early twenties, bridging the gap between adolescents dependance and full independence and responsible adulthood. |
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| - the time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a women experiences as her ability to reproduce decline. |
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| - a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another. |
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| Crystallized Intelligence |
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| - our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills: tends to increase with age |
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| - research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period of time. |
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| -our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood |
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| - the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage parenthood and retirement. |
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