Aaron Jennings Unit 9 Vocap

Question 1

The developing human organism from about two weeks after fertilization through the second month

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Embryo

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The developing human organism from nine weeks after conception to birth

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Fetus

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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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Teratogens

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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 mis proportions

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Fetal alcohol syndrome

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Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants game familiarity with repeated exposure to visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner

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Habituation

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Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience

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Maturation

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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Cognition

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Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

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Schema

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Interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas

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Assimilation

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Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information

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Accommodation

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In the piagets theory, the stage from birth to about two years of age during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities

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Sensorimotor stage

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The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

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Object permanence

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In Piagets theory, the stage from two to about six or seven years of age during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

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Preoperational stage

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The principle that or properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

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Conservation

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In piagets theory, the preoperational child’s difficulty taking another point of view

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Egocentrism

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Peoples ideas about their own and others’ mental states about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict

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Theory of mind

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The stage of cognitive development from about six or 7 to 11 years of age during which children game the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

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Concrete operational stage

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The stage of cognitive development normally beginning about age 12 during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

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Formal operational stage

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A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others states of mind

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Autism

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The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning about eight months of age

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Stranger anxiety

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And emotional tie with another person; showing in younger children by their seeking closeness to their caregiver and showing distress on separation

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Attachment

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Optimal period Shortly after birth one in organisms exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development

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Critical period

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A process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life

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Imprinting

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Persons characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

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Temperament

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According to Erick Erickson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; so to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers

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Basic trust

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Understanding and evaluation of who we are

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Self-concept

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In psychology, the biologically and socially influenced characteristics by which people define male and female

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Gender

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Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone

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Aggression

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The sex chromosome found in both men and women. Females have 2X chromosomes; males have one. On X-chromosome from each parent produces a female

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X chromosome

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A sex chromosome found only in males. When paired with the X-chromosome from the mother, it produces a male child

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Y chromosome

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The most important of male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone and mails stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty

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Testosterone

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A set of expectations about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave

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Role

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Set of expected behaviors for males or females

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Gender roles

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Our sense of being male or female

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Gender identity

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The acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role

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Gender typing

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Theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished

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Social learning theory

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The transition. From childhood to adult food, extending from puberty to independence

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Adolescence

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The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing

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Puberty

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The body structures that make sexual reproduction possible

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Primary sex characteristics

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Non-reproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair

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Secondary sex characteristics

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The first menstrual period

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Menarche

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Our sense of self; according to Ericsson, the adolescents task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles

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Identity

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Though we aspects of our self-concept; the parts of our answer to who am I that comes from our group memberships

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Social identity

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And Ericksons theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood

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Intimacy

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For some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to mid 20s, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood

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Emerging 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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Menopause

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A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another

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Cross-sectional study

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Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period

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Longitudinal study

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Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age

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Crystallized intelligence

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Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood

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Fluid intelligence

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The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage marriage and retirement

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Social clock

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The fertilized egg; it enters a two-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo

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Zygote

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A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the lifespan.

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Developmental psychology