Developing Through The Life Span Chapter 5

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Embryo

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

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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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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 and viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm

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Fetal alcohol syndrome (fas)

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Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman’s heavy drinking

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Habituation

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Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stinilus, 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 expierence

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Cognition

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All the 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 out new experience in terms of our existing schemas

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Accommodation

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Adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new info

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Sensorimotor stage

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In piagets theory the stage from birth to two years of age 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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Pre operational stage

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In paigets theory the stage from about two to six 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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Conservation

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

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Egocentrism

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In paigets theory the pre operational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view

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Theory of mind

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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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Concrete operational stage

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In paigets theory the stage cognitive development from about six or seven to eleven years of age during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

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Formal operational stage

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In piagets theory the stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts