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Teratogens

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an agent or factor that causes malformation of an embryo.

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What are the stages of piaget

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Sensorimotor
Preoperational
concrete stage
Formal stage

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sensorimotor

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Child interacts with the world 
Schema formations 
assimilation 
accommodation
object permanence
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Assimilation

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Adapt new information to present Schema

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Schema

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mental concept that informs a person about what to expect from a variety of experiences and situations.

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Accommodation

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Learn to revise existing schema

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Preoperational

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2 years to about 7 Learn the world is not seen from their angle of perception

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Concrete

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7-11 Child deals with what is right in front of them or what they have experienced themselves

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Transitive inferences

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Learning to use existing information about object relationships to infer details about other object relationships

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Formal Operation Stage

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after 11 acquires abstract thought

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When adolescence begins and ends

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10-20

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Primary sex characteristics

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characteristics related to reproduction

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Secondary sex characteristics

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Related to attracting a mate

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When is peak physical form?

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late 20’s early 30’s

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middle age

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loss of some motor abilities.
additional loss of sensory abilities.
serious disease likelihood increases.
women experience menopause

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Late adulthood

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very rapid decline of motor abilities
very rapid decline of sensory ability
rapid decline of overall helath

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Kohlberg

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best known for his pionneering stages of moral development research

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developmental psychologists use these types of research.

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systematic observation, self reports, structured observation, case studies; and ethnography or participant observation.

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Developmental psychology

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is the scientific study of how and why human beings develop over the course of their life.

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Erickson’s stages of development

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Trust Vs. Mistrust.
Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt.
Initiative Vs. Guilt
Industry vs. Inferiority
Identity vs Identity diffusion.
Intimacy vs Isolation
Generaltivity vs Isolation
Integrity vs. despair
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trust vs. mistrust

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infant develops a sense of security or person does not learn to trust.

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autonomy Vs Shame an doubt

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Infant develops a sense of independence or person doubts self, low self esteem

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Initiative vs guilt

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Child learns to balance restraint and spontaneity.

person is overly impulsive or extremely restratined

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Industry vs inferiority

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the child attains a sense of self confidence or the person has odd levels of confidence

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Identity or role confussion
person must struggle to find their personality or not find struggle to find it.
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intimacy vs. Isolation
find love or not and
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Generativity or self absorbstion
look for more responsibility in life
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Integrity or Despair
fulfillment in life or despair in what you haven't accomplished.
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functional fixedness
getting stuck on a specific use of an item and ignoring other uses
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means-end analysis
examining differences between goal state and current state determining what steps will get you there.
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persistence of set
old strategies continue to be used even if they are less efficient if we fail to perceive that the situation has changed
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What are the four main parts of language
phonemes morphemes syntax extralinguistic infromation
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phonemes
categories of sounds that our vocal apparatus produces. each language uses around 15 to 60 english 40-45
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Morphemes
The smallest units of language dog re
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Syntax
The set rules of a language for constructing sentences. word order sentence structure morphological markers
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extralinguistic information
elements of communication that aren't a part of the content of language but are critical to interpreting meaning. facial expression tone of voice previous statement of others.
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heuristics
shortcuts to increase our thinking efficiency
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common heuristics
representativeness: like goes with like. availability: off the top of my head
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study the problem solving model
study it
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cognitive economy
the tendency for cognitive processes to minimizing processing effort and processing.
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what is thinking
is any mental activity or processing of information