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a fertilized egg (about 2 weeks)
Retrieval Cue: i was a zygote in the first 2 weeks after i was fertilized. |
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the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month.
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a friend of mine aborted an embryo 2 weeks ago. |
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the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
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By the time that a mother hears kicking in her stomach, her child is a fetus |
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agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
Retrieval Cue Alcohol during pregnancy is a teratogen.
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| Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) |
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physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. Severe cases include noticeable facial misproportions.
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Some Special Ed kids have fetal alcohol syndrome. |
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decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
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As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner. |
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| Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. |
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| all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. John Piaget is the father of cognition |
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a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
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Concept=scheme |
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interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas
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Calling all four-legged animals "cows" |
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adapting our current understanding (schemas) to incorporate new information
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the definition of assimilation in history |
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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 of thier sensory impressions and motor activities
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Sensorimotor stage is when a baby sucks on his fingers'hands |
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the awareness that things continue to exist even when not percieved
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When i was little, i thought that objects ceased to exist when thrown into the thin air |
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Preoperational Stage
Piaget's second developmental theory |
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| the stage (from about 2-6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet understand the mental operations of concrete logic |
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| the principle (which Piaget believed to be a 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 Preoperational child difficulty taking another's point of view.
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A child who keeps bugging her father who is working doesn't know that her father is working. |
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| people's ideas about their own and others mental states-about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict. |
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| Concrete operational stage |
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| in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from 6/7-11) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. |
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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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a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of other's states of mind.
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A child who is not talked to will develop autism |
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| the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age |
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an emotional tie with another person, shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation
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this doesn't apply to my little brother. when i take him to the baby sitter and my mom goes and get him, he doesn't show any signs of distress |
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an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development
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critical period=when the child is born and exposed to the environment that produces proper development |
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| the process by which certain animals form 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
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Basic trust= formed by caregivers with infants |
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our understanding and evaluation of who we are.
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self concept= realizing who we are |
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the first menstraul period
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Men=menses
arche=first |
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our sense of self, according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various notes.
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Identity= finding who you are |
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the "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "who am i"? that comes from our group memberships
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social identity= our societal status |
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in Erikson's theory, the ability to form close relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood
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intimacy=having close friends and relatives |
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a period from the late teen to early twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood
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Emerging adulthood=the period where we learn to be more independent |
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the time the natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.
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Menopause=my grandmother |
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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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| our ability to reason speedily and abstractly, tends to decrease during late adulthood |
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