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16 Cards in this Set
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Attachment |
Long-standing connection or bond with others |
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Cognitive development |
Domain of lifespan development that examines learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity. |
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Conception |
When a sperm fertilizes an egg and forms a zygote |
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Conservation |
Idea that even if you change the appearance of something, it is still equal in size, volume, or number as long as nothing is added or removed . |
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Critical period (sensitive)Ego |
Time during fetal growth when specific parts or organs are developed |
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Egocentrism |
Preoperational child’s difficulty in taking the perspective of others |
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Embryo |
Multi-cellular organism in its early stages of development. |
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Hospice |
Service that provides a death with dignity; pain management in a humane and comfortable environment; usually outside of a hospital setting. |
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Nature |
Genes and biology |
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Nurture |
Environment and culture |
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Object permanence |
Idea that even if something is out of sight, it still exists |
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Psychosexual developmentpsycho |
Process proposed by Freud in which pleasure-seeking urges focus on different erogenous zones of the body as humans move through five stages of life |
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Psychosocial development |
Domain of lifespan development that examines emotions, personality, and social relationships; process proposed by Erikson in which social tasks are mastered as humans move through eight stages of life from infancy to adulthood. |
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Temperament |
Innate traits that influence how one thinks, behaves, and reacts with the environment. |
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Teratogen |
Biological, chemical , or physical environmental agent that causes damage to the developing embryo or fetus. |
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Zygote |
Structure created when a sperm and egg merge at conception; begins as a single cell and rapidly divides to form the embryo and placenta. |
