Child

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Child

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Person undergoing the period of development from infancy through puberty

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Development

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Orderly appearance over time of physical structures, psychological traits, behaviors

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Theories

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Based on assumptions about behaviors try to describe, explain, predict, and influence the events

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Psychosocial development

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Ericksons theory, emphasizes the importance of social relationships through the eight stages of development

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Behaviorism

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Seized children’s learning as classical conditioning or operant conditioning

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Scheme

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Developed by Piagets is an structure that is involved and placing new events to existing schemes

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Sociocultural theory

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Developed by vygotsky children internalize social cultural dialogs and developing problem-solving skills

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Ecological systems theory

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Explains child development in terms of the interaction between children and the settings in which they live

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Information processing theory

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Focuses on the processes by which information is encoded, stored, retrieved, and manipulated

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Heredity

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Transmission of traits and characteristics from parent to child by means of genes

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Genetics

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Branch of biology that studies heredity

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Chromosomes

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Rod shaped structures that are composed of genes and found with in the nuclei of cells

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Gene

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Basic unit of heredity composed of DNA

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Polygenic

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Resulting from many genes

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DNA

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Genetic material that takes the form of a double helix made up of phosphate sugars and bases

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Zygote

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New cell formed from the union of a sperm and a ovum

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My

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Form of cell division in which each chromosome split lengthwise to double in number

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Mutation

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Sudden variation in a heretical characteristics caused by an accident that affect the composition of genes

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Meiosis

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Form of cell division in which each pair of chromosomes split and one member of each pair moved to the new cell each new cell have 23 chromosomes

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AutoSome

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Member of a pair of chromosomes

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Sex chromosome

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Chromosome in the shape of a Y or X that determines the sex of the child

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Monozygotic twins

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Twins that derive from a single zygote that has split into two identical twins they carry the same genetic code

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Dizygotic twins

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Twins that derive from two zygotes fraternal twins

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Ovulation

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Release of an ovum from an ovary

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Allele

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Member of a pair of genes

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Homozygous

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Having two identical alleles

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Heterozygous

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Having two different alleles

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Dominant trait

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Trait that is expressed

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Recessive

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Trait that is not expressed when the gene or genes involved have been paired with dominant genes

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Tabula rasa

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Blank slate, John locke

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Id

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Personality is present at birth and is unconscious

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Erickson’s psychosocial

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Infant size social relationships and physical maturation

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Skinner

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Reinforcement into behavorism

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Cognitive theroist likely to study

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Mentally represent the world

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Piaget

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Schemes, cognitive atructures

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Cystic fibrosis

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Single pair of genes

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Turners syndrome

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Single x chromosomes