Vocabulary Terms 1-21

Question 0

critical period

Answer 0

optimal period shortly after birth

Question 1

attachment

Answer 1

emotional tie with another person

Question 2

imprinting

Answer 2

certain animals form attachments during critical period early in life

Question 3

basic trust

Answer 3

sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy

Question 4

self-concept

Answer 4

sense of one’s identity and personal worth

Question 5

adolescence

Answer 5

transition period from childhood and adulthood

Question 6

puberty

Answer 6

period of sexual maturation

Question 7

primary sex characteristics

Answer 7

body structures that make sexual reproduction possible (ovaries, testes)

Question 8

secondary sex characteristics

Answer 8

nonreproductive sexual characteristics (breasts, hips)

Question 9

menarche [meh-NAR-key]

Answer 9

first menstrual period

Question 10

Kohlberg

Answer 10

theory of stages of moral development

Question 11

erikson

Answer 11

theory on psychosocial development

Question 12

identity

Answer 12

one’s sense of self

Question 13

intimacy

Answer 13

ability to form close, loving relationships

Question 14

menopause

Answer 14

time of natural cessation of menstruation

Question 15

Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 15

brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and physical functioning

Question 16

cross-sectional study

Answer 16

people of different ages are compared with one another

Question 17

longitudinal study

Answer 17

same people are restudied and retested over a long period

Question 18

crystallized intelligence

Answer 18

one’s accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; increase with age

Question 19

fluid intelligence

Answer 19

one’s ability to reason speedily and abstractly; decrease in late adulthood

Question 20

social clock

Answer 20

culturally preferred timing of civil events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement