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The fertilized egg, enters a 2 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

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The developing human organism from about 2-8 weeks after fertilization through the second month

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Embryo

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9 weeks- birth the developing human organism from 9 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 development and cause harm.

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Teratogens

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Born with many reflexes to help them survive

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Reflexes

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The baby’s tendency when touched on the cheek to turn toward the touch, open the mouth and search for the nipple

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Rooting reflex

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Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.

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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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Revolutionized our understanding of children’s minds. Best know for studying the Cognitive abilities change over the lifespan.

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Jean Piaget

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Birth 2 years in which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities

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Sensorimotor period

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A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

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Schemas

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Assimilation

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Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

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Adapting our current schemas to incorporate new information.

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Accommodation

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The awareness that objects continue to exist even when not perceived.

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Object permanence

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In piagets theory the pre-operational Childs difficulty taking another’s point of view

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Egocentrism

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In piagets theory the belief that 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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Ages 2 to 7. Language development is rapid, but the child is unable to understand the mental operations of concrete logic

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Preoperational stage

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Peoples ideas about their own and others mental states- about their feelings, perceptions,

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Theory of mind

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

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Autism

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Age 6 to 7 to 11 where children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

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Concrete operational stage

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Formal operational stage

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Normally begins around age 12. The stage of cognitive development during which people,begin to think logically about abstract thinking

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Stranger anxiety

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The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by aBout 8 months of age

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Study of infant monkeys and looking at attachment

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Harry Harlow

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Focused on attachment, she worked with humans, mothers and infants

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Mary ainsworth

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An optimal period shortly after birth when an organisms exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development.

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Critical period

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The process by which certain animals form attachments during critical period very early in life.

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Imprinting

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Body structures that enable reproduction

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Primary sex traits

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Secondary sex traits

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Non reproductive sexual characteristics

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Described the development of moral reasoning, the thinking that occurs as we consider right and wrong.

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Lawrence kohlberg

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Children obey either to avoid punishment or to gain concrete rewards.

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Preconventional morality

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By this stage of character development, children uphold laws and social rules simply because they are the laws and rules.

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Conventional morality

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By young adulthood, (around15-16) people begin to affirm their own agreed upon rights or follows what one personally perceives as basic ethical principles

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Post conventional morality

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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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Fetal alcohol syndrome

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

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Cognition

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An emotional tie with another person

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Attachment

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According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy

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Basic trust

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A sense of ones identity and personal worth.

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Self concept

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The transition period from childhood to adulthood, 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 first menstrual period.

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Menarche

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Theorist that contended that each stage of life has its own psychosocial task, a crisis that needs resolution.

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Erik Erikson

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Ones self of self

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Identity

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Eriksons theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships, a primary development task in late adolescence and early adulthood

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Intimacy

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The time of natural cessation of mensturation

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Menopause

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A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and finally physical functioning.

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Alzheimer’s disease

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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 re studied and retested over a long period.

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Longitudinal study

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Ones accumulated knowledge and verbal skills

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Crystallized intelligence

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Ones ability to reason speedily and abstractly

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Fluid intelligence

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

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Social clock

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