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22 Cards in this Set
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Adolescence
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the period of development and gradual transition between childhood and adulthood
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Authoritarian Parents
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exert control but do so within a cold, unresponsive, or rejecting relationship
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Authoritative Parents
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controlling but warm
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Conservation
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the principle that basic properties of objects, such as their volume, mass, or quantity, stay the same even though their outward appearance may change
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Cross-Sectional Design
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to compare people of different ages at the same point in time
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Egocentrism
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difficulty in viewing the world from someone else's perspective
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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a severe group of adnormalities that results from prenatal exposure to alcohol
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Gender Identity
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a sence of "femaleness" or "maleness" that becomes a central aspect of one's personal identity
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Imprinting
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a sudden, biologically primed form of attachment
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Longitudinal Desigh
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repeatedly tests the same cohort as it grows older
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Maturation
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the genetically programmed biological process that governs our growth
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Object Permanence
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the understanding that an object continues to exist even when it no longer can be seen
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Puberty
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a period of rapid maturation in which the person becomes capable of sexual reproduction
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Schema
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organized patterns of thought and action
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Senile Dementia
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refers to dementia that begins after the age of 65
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Seperation Anxiety
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distress over being seperated from a primary caregiver
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Social Clock
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a set of cultural norms concerning the optimal age range for work, marriage, parenthood, and other life experiences
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Stranger Anxiety
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distress over contact with unfamiliar people
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Teratogens
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external agents that cause abnormal prenatal development
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Zygote
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a fertilized egg
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List Piaget's Stages.
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Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete, Formal
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List Kohlberg's Stages.
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Preconventional, Conventional, Postconventional
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