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The science of human development seeks to understand what

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How and why people change over time

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The first step of the scientific method involves what

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Posing a question

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The second step of the scientific method involves what

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Developing a hypothesis

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A hypothesis is a what

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A prediction that can be tested

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Empirical evidence is based on what

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Observation experience or experiment

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Nature refers to what in development

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The genes people inherit

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In development nature refers to

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Environmental influences

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What is epigenetics

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The study of how the environment affects which genes are expressed

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What term did Bronfenbrenner used to describe the impact of the specific time in history on a person's development

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Chronosystem

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High School classmates are part of the same ????

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Cohort

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Plasticity refers to the

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Potential for human traits to be molded during development but also to remain durable

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The idea that human development is an ongoing ever-changing interaction between the body mind and psychosocial influences is known as what

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The dynamic-system approach

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Psychoanalytic theory originated with who

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Sigmund Freud

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Unlike Freud, Erikson

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Emphasized family and culture in his stages

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Behaviorism has also been referred to as

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Learning theory

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Operant conditioning is also referred to as what

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Instrumental conditioning

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The Single Cell formed when the union of two gametes, a sperm, and an ovum, is called what

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Zygote

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Each human body cell contains

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46 chromosomes

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The individual's genetic inheritance

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Genotype

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The individuals phenotype is dependent on what

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An individual's genes and the environment

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On the 23rd pair of chromosomes, what have 2 (X) chromosomes

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Females

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Males have One X and one Y chromosome on

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The 23rd pair of chromosomes

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Identical twins are also called what kind of twins

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Monozygotic

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Almost every trait is _______, which means it is affected by many genes

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Polygenic

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Epigenetics means that a trait ________

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Is determined by genes and the environment

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The germinal period ends approximately how long after conception

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Two weeks

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The third period of gestation is called what.

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Fetal

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The age of viability is the time when the preterm newborn ______

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Might survive outside the uterus

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Postpartum depression

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What can be reduced by successful breastfeeding

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Down syndrome is also called

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Trisomy 12

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During prenatal development, teratogens ________

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Increase the risk of potential abnormalities

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Cerebral palsy was once thought to be the result of something that happened during the birth procedure, but not from

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Huntington disease

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Children reach half their adult height by the age of what

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2 years

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Brain cells are called

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Neurons

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Synapses

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Intersections where the axons of one neuron meet the dendrites of another neuron

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Pruning is the process by which

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Unused connections between neurons are eliminated

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Thinking about something that has been

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Cognition

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Gross motor skills

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Large movements

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Fine motor skills

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Small movements

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Breast milk

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Provides antibodies to fight diseases

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Piaget called an infant's first period of cognitive development

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Sensorimotor intelligence

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Piaget believed children begin to develop cognitively at what age

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Birth

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In which of Piaget's sensorimotor stages do infants respond to people and objects and seek to make interesting events last

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Stage 3

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Sensorimotor stage four is the stage of

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New adaptation and anticipation

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Baby Hue enjoys playing with his father's keys but when his father takes them away he who does not search for them. Piaget would say that this is because he does not understand

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Object permanence

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Object permanence is demonstrated by an infant who

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Searches for a toy that has fallen from sight

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The distinct language form known as baby talk is a

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Simplified language that adults use when talking to babies

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The term holophrase is used to denote

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Infants use of one word to express a whole thought

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As infant's acquire language, they say more _______ than any other parts of speech

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Nouns

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According to Chomsky's theories of language acquisition

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Children have an inborn ability to learn language