Charter 9

Question 0

Maturation

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Development governed by automatic genetically predetermined signals

Question 1

Developmental psychology

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Study of age-related changes in behavior and mental processes

Question 2

Critical period

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special sensitivity to specific types of learning that shapes the capacity for future development

Question 3

Cross-sectional method

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Research that measures individuals of various ages at one point in time and gives information about age differences

Question 4

Longitudinal method

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Research design that measures the signal individual or group of individuals over an extended period and gives information about age changes

Question 5

Germinal period

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First stage of prenatal development that begins with conception

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Embryonic period

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Second stage of prenatal development that begins after uterine implantation

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Fetal period

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The third and final stage of prenatal development characterized by rapid weight gain in the fetus

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Teratogen

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Environmental agent that causes damage during prenatal development

Question 9

Fetal alcohol syndrome

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A combination of birth defects that results from maternal alcohol abuse

Question 10

Puberty

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Biological changes during adolescence that lead to an adult size body and sexual Maturity

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Agin

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Prejudice or discrimination against an individual based on physical age

Question 12

Attachment

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A strong affectional bond with special others pet indoors overtime

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Imprinting

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In any form of learning within a critical. That involves attachment to the first large moving objects seen

Question 14

SChema

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Cognitive structures were patterns consisting of a number of organized ideas

Question 15

Assimilation

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Absorbing new information into existing schemas

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Accommodation

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Adjusting old schemas or developing new ones to better fit with more information

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Sensorimotor stage

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Piagets first stage in which schemas are developed through sensory and motor activities

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Object permanence

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Piagets term for an infants understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen heard or touched

Question 19

Preoperational stage

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PiaGTS second stage characterized by ability to employ significant language and think symbolically but the child lacks operations

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Egocentrism

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The inability to consider another’s point of view

Question 21

Concrete operational stage

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Piagets third stage the child can perform operations on concrete objects and understand reversibility and conservation

Question 22

Conservation

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Understanding that certain physical characteristics mean unchanged inland there

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Formal operational stage

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Piagets fourth stage characterized by abstract and bypothetical thinking