Development Through the Life Span Vocab
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| show | a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social changes throughout the life span
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| Zygote | show 🗑
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| Fetus | show 🗑
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| show | 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 | show 🗑
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| show | a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to turn towards the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple
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| show | decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner
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| show | biological growth processes that enables orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experiments
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| show | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
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| Assimilation | show 🗑
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| show | adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
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| show | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
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| Sensorimotor Stage | show 🗑
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| show | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not percieved
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| Conservation | show 🗑
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| show | the Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking other's points of view
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| show | 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 operations that enables them to think logically about concrete events
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| show | 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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| show | the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age
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| show | an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on seperation
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| show | the process by which certain animals form attatchments during a critical period very early in life
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| show | according to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers
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| show | a sense of one's identity and personal worth
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| show | the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independance
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| Primary Sex Characteristics | show 🗑
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| Secondary Sex Characteristics | show 🗑
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| Menarche | show 🗑
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| Identity | show 🗑
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| show | in Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships, a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early childhood
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| Menopause | show 🗑
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| show | a progressive and irreverable brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and, finally, physical functioning
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| show | a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another
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| show | research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period
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| Crystallized Intelligence | show 🗑
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