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| developmental psychology? |
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| a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. |
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| life is sexually transmitted? |
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A) sperm cells surround an ovum.
B)As one sperm penetrates the egg's jelleylike outer coating, a series of chemical events begins that will cause sperm and egg to fuse into a single cell. If all goes well that cell will subdivide again and again and then emerge 9 months later into a 100 trillion cell human being. |
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1. Zygote (conception - 2 weeks)
2. Embryo (2 wks - 8 wks)
3. Fetus (9 wks - birth) |
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| 2 week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo. |
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| developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month. |
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| agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. |
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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. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions. |
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| biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experiences. |
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| 18-30 month old children...do what? |
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| can fail to take into account the size of things. ex. climb into a miniature car etc. |
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| all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |
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| a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. |
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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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Birth- 2yrs -- Sensorimotor. Experiencing the world through senses.
2yrs - 7yrs -- Preoperational. Representing things with words and images; using intuitive rather than logical thinking.
7yrs - 11yrs -- Concrete operational. Thinking logically about concrete events. grasping concrete analogies. performing arithmetical operations.
12yrs- adulthood -- Formal operational. Abstract reasoning. potential for mature moral reasoning. |
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| Piaget's theory. birth - 2yrs know things through senses. |
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| the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. |
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| Piaget's theory 2-7yrs child learns language but does not understand how to comprehend logic. |
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| the principle (which is apart of concrete operational thinking "Piaget's view) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of the objects. |
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| Piaget's theory the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view. |
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| people's ideas about their own and other's mental states -- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and 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 7-11yrs) during which children gain mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. |
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| formal operational stage? |
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| in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (beginning around age 12) during which people begin to think logically. |
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| the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by 8 months. |
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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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| an optimal oeriod shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. |
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| according to Erik Erikson a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; this is said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers. |
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| transition form childhood to adulthood. extending form 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 that make sexual reproduction possible. Ex. ovaries, testes, ect. |
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| secondary sex characteristics? |
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| non-reproductive sexual characteristics. ex. breasts, hips, male voice, and body hair. |
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| the first menstrual period. |
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| learn chart on p 156. and on p 159. alos on p. 174. |
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| in Erikson's theory the abiblity to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood. |
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| for some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to mid twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood. |
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| the time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines. |
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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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| the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement. |
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