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| What is the branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span |
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| The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth |
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| What are the agents such as chemicals and viruses that can reach embryo or fetus? |
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| What activities cause teratogens to enter the embryo or fetus? |
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| What are the physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by pregnant woman’s heavy drinking called? |
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| Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) |
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| What is decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation? |
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| What is the biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience? |
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| What is the process that babies motor developement happens? |
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| People don't usually remember anything before the age of 3 |
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| Who tested that infants are able to learn? |
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Who came up with
the concept of schemas, assimilation, and accommodation? |
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| Interpreting out new experiences in terms of our existing schemas |
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| Adapting out current understanding (schemas) to incorporate new information |
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| What theory says people’s ideas about their own and other’s mental states- their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts? |
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| What stage do children 6-11 gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events |
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| Concrete Operational Stage |
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| During what stage to people beginning at 12 start to think logically about abstract concepts? |
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| Who studied that children's minds feed on the language of social interaction? |
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| What is the fear of strangers that infants commonly display beginning at 8 months of age? |
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| What is an emotional tie with another person? |
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| What is the process of animals forming attachments during a critical period of time? |
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| What type of parent imposes rules and expects obedience? |
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| Physical or verbal behavior to hurt someone |
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| What gender is more physically aggressive? |
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| Men. Women are more mentally aggressive |
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| What are the set expected behaviores for males and females? |
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| What is the period of sexual maturation? |
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| What is the natural cessation of menstration? |
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| In adulthood what happens to our sensory abilities? |
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| In adulthood what happens to our immune system? |
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| During adulthood what do adults remember best? |
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| Memories from their teens and twenties |
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