Chapters 3, 4, & 5

Front 1

Rooting Reflex

Back 1

An infant's response in turning toward the source of touching that occurs anywhere around his or her mouth.

Front 2

Assimilation

Back 2

The process of fitting objects and experiences into one's schemas to deal with new situations and to understand the environment.

Front 3

Conservation

Back 3

According to Piaget, the principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed.

Front 4

Imprinting

Back 4

Inherited tendency of some newborn animals to follow the first moving object they see.

Front 5

Maturation

Back 5

The internally programed growth of a child that occurs as a result of automatic, genetically determined signals.

Front 6

Authoritarian Families

Back 6

Family in which parents attempt to control, shape, and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of children in accordance with a set code of conduct.

Front 7

Permissive Families

Back 7

Family in which children have the final say; parents are less controlling and have a non punishing, accepting attitude towards children.

Front 8

Democratic Families

Back 8

Family in which adolescents participate in decisions affecting their lives.

Front 9

Telegraphic Speech

Back 9

The kind of verbal utterances offered by young children in which articles, prepositions, and parts of verbs are left out, but the meaning is usually clear.

Front 10

Schemas

Back 10

An idea or mental framework a person uses to organize and interpret info and make sense of the world.

Front 11

Object Permanence

Back 11

A child's realization that an object exists even when he or she cannot see, hear, or touch it.

Front 12

Egocentric

Back 12

A young child's inability to understand another person's perspective.

Front 13

Socialization

Back 13

The process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born and will live.

Front 14

Sublimation

Back 14

The process of redirecting sexual impulses into learning tasks.

Front 15

Developmental Psychology

Back 15

The branch of psychology that studies the emotional, physical, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur thought an individual's life.

Front 16

Initiation Rites

Back 16

A ceremony or ritual in which an individual is admitted to a new status of accepted into a new position.

Front 17

Puberty

Back 17

The period of sexual maturation; the end of childhood and the point when reproduction is first possible.

Front 18

Menarche

Back 18

A female's first menstrual period.

Front 19

Spermarche

Back 19

A period during which a male achieve first ejaculation.

Front 20

Identity Crisis

Back 20

A period of inner conflict during which adolescents worry intensely about who they are.

Front 21

Clique

Back 21

A small, exclusive group of people within a larger group.

Front 22

Conformity

Back 22

Acting in accord with a group norms or customs.

Front 23

Anorexia Nervosa

Back 23

A serious eating disorder where the fear of gaining weight results in prolonged self-starvation and dramatic weight loss.

Front 24

Bulimia Nervosa

Back 24

A serious eating disorder characterized by compulsive overeating usually followed by self-induced vomiting or abuse of laxatives.

Front 25

Gender Identity

Back 25

The sex group to which an individual biologically belongs; and individual's subjective sense of being male or female.

Front 26

Gender Stereotype

Back 26

An oversimplified or distorted generalization about the characteristics of men or women.

Front 27

Menopause

Back 27

The biological event in which a woman's production of sex hormones is sharply reduced.

Front 28

Generatively

Back 28

The desire in middle age to use one's accumulated wisdom to guide future generations.

Front 29

Stagnation

Back 29

A discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past, characteristic of some middle-aged people.

Front 30

Decremental Model of Aging

Back 30

A theory that holds that progressive physical and mental decline is inevitable with age.

Front 31

Ageism

Back 31

Prejudice or discrimination based on age, especially against the elderly.

Front 32

Senile Dementia

Back 32

A collective term to describe decreases in mental abilities experienced by some people after the age of 65.

Front 33

Thanatology

Back 33

The study of dying and death.

Front 34

Hospice

Back 34

A type of care for terminally ill patients; an organization that provides such care.