Vocabulary Terms 1-27

Question 0

4 months

Answer 0

the fetus weighs 3 ounces

Question 1

developmental psychology

Answer 1

studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

Question 2

40 days

Answer 2

the spine is visible and the arms and legs are beginning to grow

Question 3

zygote

Answer 3

fertilized egg

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embryo

Answer 4

developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization

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fetus

Answer 5

developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

Question 6

teratogens

Answer 6

agents that can reach the embryo or fetus

Question 7

fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

Answer 7

physical and cognitive abnormalities caused by drinking during pregnancy

Question 8

rooting reflex

Answer 8

baby’s tendency to turn toward the touch, open mouth, search for nipple

Question 9

habituation

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decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

Question 10

maturation

Answer 10

biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior

Question 11

schema

Answer 11

concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

Question 12

assimilation

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interpreting one’s experience in terms of one’s existing schemas

Question 13

accommodation

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adapting one’s current understandings to incorporate new information

Question 14

Piaget

Answer 14

Swiss cognitive developmental psychologist and philosopher; importance on the education of children

Question 15

cognition

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all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

Question 16

sensorimotor stage

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stage which infants know the world mostly by sensory impressions and motor activities (birth to 2 years)

Question 17

object permanence

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things continue to exist even when not perceived

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preoperational stage

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stage which a child learns to use language but not able to comprehend logically (2 to 6 or 7 years)

Question 19

conservation

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mass, volume, and number remain the same

Question 20

egocentrism

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pre-operational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view

Question 21

theory of mind

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people’s ideas about their own and others’ mental states

Question 22

autism

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disorder; deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others’ states of mind

Question 23

concrete operational stage

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stage which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events (6 or 7 to 11 years)

Question 24

formal operational stage

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stage which people being to think logically about abstract concepts (12 years)

Question 25

stranger anxiety

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fear of strangers that infants display (8 months)

Question 26

Harlow

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psychologist known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development