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Unit 8 vocabulary (development) Flashcards

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Accommodation

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Changing schemas to host new things

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Adolescence

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Transition from kid to adults

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Alzheimer’s disease

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Mental deterioration in old age

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Assimilation

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Fitting new experiences into old schemas

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Attachment

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Emotional tie with another person

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Babinski reflex

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Reflex of the foot

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Concrete operational stage

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Logic and concrete events stage

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Conservation

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Unit of measurements stays the same despite different containers

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Critical period

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Best time and development for exposure

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Cross-sectional study

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Different ages are compared

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Developmental psychology

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Psychology studying development

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Egocentrism

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Kids think their point of view is the same as others

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Embryo

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Two weeks through second month of development

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Fetal alcohol syndrome

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Abnormalities in development caused by an alcoholic mother

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Fetus

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Nine weeks and on in development

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Formal operational stage

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Logic and abstract concepts stage

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Gender

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Socially constructed roles

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Gender identity

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Our sense of gender

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Habituation

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Decreased responsiveness to repeated stimulation

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Imprinting

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Forming strong attachments in early life

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Inner speech

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Silent expression of conscious thought

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Longitudinal study

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People are re studied and retested after long periods of time

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Maturation

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Biological growth process of behavior

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Menarche

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First menstrual period

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Menopause

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Time of natural cessation of menstruation

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Moro reflex

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Infant feels as if it is falling after loss of support

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Object permanence

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Things still exist when out of sight

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Preoperational stage

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Child uses language but doesn’t have concrete logic

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Puberty

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Sexual maturation

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Rooting reflex

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Infant smooth face towards what touch them to find nipple

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Schemas

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Files we store info in

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Sensorimotor stage

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Infant explore world in terms of senses

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Teratogens

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Developmentally harmful agents in womb

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Zone of proximal development

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Difference between what one can and can’t do

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Zygote

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Fertilized egg up to two weeks

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