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Greek for joint. A fertilized egg.

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Zygote

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The branch of psychology concerned with physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the lifespan.

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Developmental psychology

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Developing prenatal organism between 2 weeks to 2 months after conception.

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Embryo

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The developing prenatal human from 9 weeks to birth

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Fetus

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Poisons, drugs, viruses, or substances that cross the mothers placenta to the developing baby that can harm it

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Teratogens

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Abnormalities that heavy drinking by the pregnant woman may cause in the developing child.

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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Newborns tendency when stroked to orient toward touch in search of nipple

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Rooting reflex

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Used to study infant cognition. Is the decreasing responsiveness to a stimulus that is repeatedly presented.

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Habituation

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Refers to the biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior and are relatively uninfluenced by experience or other environmental factors.

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Maturation

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*Mental concepts and frameworks formed that organize and interpret information

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*Schemas

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Refers to changing an existing schema to incorporate new information that cannot be assimilated

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Accommodation

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Refers to interpreting a new experience in terms of an existing schema

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Assimilation

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Refers to all mental processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

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Cognition

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This stage lasts from birth to age 2. Infants gain knowledge of the world through their senses and motor activities

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Sensorimotor Stage

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Develops during the sensorimotor stage, is the awareness that things do not cease to exist when not percieved

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Object permanence

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This stage lasts from 2-7 years old. Language development is rapid, but child is unable to understand the mental operations of concrete logic

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Preoperational stage

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Properties like number, volume, and mass remain constant despite changes of object forms. Acquired during concrete operational stage

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Conservation

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Difficulty that preoperational children have in considering another’s viewpoint. Self centered.

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Egocentrism

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Our ideas about our own and others thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, and the behaviors these might predict constitute this

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Theory of mind

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A disorder in childhood marked by deficiencies in communications, social interaction, and theory of mind

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Autism

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Lasting from 6-11, children can think logically about concrete events and objects

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Concrete operational stage

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Begins at 12. People begin to think logically about abstract concepts.

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Formal operational stage

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The fear of strangers that infants begin to display at 8 months of age

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Stranger anxiety

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An emotional tie with another person, distress at separation

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Attachment

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Limited time shortly after birth during which an organism must be exposed to certain experiences or influences if it is to develop properly
Critical period
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The process by which certain animals form attachments during a limited critical period early in life.
Imprinting
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A sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy - infants think this if caregiving needs are met
Basic trust
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A persons sense of identity and personal worth
Self - concept
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Life stage from puberty to independent adulthood.
Adolescence
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The earliest period of adolescence - now capable of reproduction
Puberty
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Bodily structures for reproduction
Primary sex characteristics
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No reproductive sexual characteristics, breasts, body hair, deep voices
Secondary sex characteristics
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The first menstrual period
Menarche
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Ones sense of self
Identity
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Ability to establish close, loving relationships
Intimacy
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When menstruation stops in the late four ties early fifties. Signals end of reproduction years.
Menopause
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A progressive and irreversible brain disorder caused by deterioration of neurons that produce ach. Loss of memory, reasoning, physical functioning.
Alzheimer's
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People of different ages compared to each other
Cross sectional study
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The same people are tested and retested over a period of years
Longitudinal study
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Refers to aspects of intellectual ability, such as vocabulary and general knowledge, that reflect accumulated learning. Increases with age
Crystallized intelligence
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Refers to a persons ability to reason speedily and abstractly. Declines with age.
Fluid intelligence
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Refers to culturally preferred timing of social events, like leaving home, marrying, having kids, and retiring.
Social clock
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Developmental psychologist who is best known for studying the cognitive development in children using careful observation. 4 stage theory.
Jean Piaget
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best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development.
Harry Harlow
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known for her work in early emotional attachment with the Strange Situation design, as well as her work in the development of attachment theory.
Mary Ainsworth
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Children with this know that adults are reliable and will trust people. Get over it when mother leaves, seek contact when she comes back, comforted
Secure attachment
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Children with this have learned that adults are not reliable, and do not trust easily. Children cry more often, when mother returns they hardly react.
Insecure attachment
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An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development.
Familiarity
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He described the development of moral reasoning
Kohlberg
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During this stage of character development, children obey either to avoid punishment or to gain concrete rewards (before age 9)
Preconvential Morality
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By this stage of character development, children uphold laws and social rules simply because they are laws and rules
Conventional Morality
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By young adulthood, people begin to affirm their own agreed upon rights or follows what one personally perceives as basic ethical principles. (15-16 yrs old)
Post-conventional Morality
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He created an 8 stage theory that helped explain development from birth to death. (psychological development)
Erik Erikson

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