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24 Cards in this Set
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Zyotes
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The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo
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Embryo
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The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month
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Fetus
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The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
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Teratogens
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Agents such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
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Fetal alcohol syndrome(FAS)
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Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In sever cases symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions
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Rooting reflex
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A baby's tendancy, when touched on the cheek, to turn toward the touch, open the mouth, and search for the nipple.
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Maturation
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Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relativley influenced by experience.
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Schemas
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A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
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Assimilate
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Interpreting of ones bew experience interms of one's existing schemas
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Accomodation
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Addapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information.
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Sensorimotor Stage
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From birth to about 2 years of age, during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities
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Object permanence
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The awareness that things continue to exist even when not percieved
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Preoperational Stage
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From about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age, during which a child learns to use languagebut does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
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Conservation
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The principle that Piaget believed to be a part of conctrete operational reasoning that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects
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Egocentrism
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In Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
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Theory of mind
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People's idea's about their own and others' mental states- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict
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Concrete operational stage
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The stage of cognitive develpoment(from 6 or 7 years to 11 yearsof age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
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Formal operational stage
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The stage of cognitive development(normally beginnig at age 12) during which people begin to think logocally about abstract concepts
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Stranger anxiety
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The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age
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Attachment
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An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on seperation
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Critical Period
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An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development
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Imprinting
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The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life
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Basic Trust
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According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancyby appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers
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Self-concept
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A sense of ones identity and personal worth
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