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Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Developmental psychology

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A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

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Zygote

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The fertilized egg; it enters a 2 week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo

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embryo

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

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fetus

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the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

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Teratogens

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agents, such as chemicals that can each the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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(FAS) 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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Habituation

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decreasing responsiveness with 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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maturation

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

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cognition

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all he mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating

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Schema

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a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

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assimilation

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interpreting our new experience in terms of existing schemas

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accommodation

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adapting our our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information

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sensory motor stage

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in Piagets theory the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities

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object permanence

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the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

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Preoperational stage

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conservation

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egocentrism

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theory of mind

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concrete operational stage

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formal operational stage

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autism

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stranger anxiety

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attachment

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critical period

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imprinting

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basic trust

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self concept

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adolescence

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puberty

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primary sex characteristics

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secondary sex characteristics

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Menarche

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Identity

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Social identity

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Intimacy

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Emerging adulthood

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Menopause

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Cross sectional study

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Longitudinal study

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Crystallized intelligence

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Fluid intelligence

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Social clock

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