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Developmental Psychology
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Examines how people are continually developing, physically, cogntively, and socially, from infancy to old age.
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prenatal development
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conception
zygote fetus |
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FAS
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. physical and cognitive abnormalities caused by mother drinking while child is in womb.
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Law of Readiness
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Learning is dependent on learner's readiness to act.
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Maturation
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Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
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birth-2 Sensorimotor
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Experience the world through senses and actions
--Object Permanence -Stranger Anxiety |
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2-6 or 7 Preoperational
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Representing things with words and images; use intuitive rather than logical reasoning
--Pretend Play --Egocentrism |
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7-11 Concrete Operational
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Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations
--Conservation -Mathematical transformations |
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12-adulthood Formal Operational
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--Abstract logic
--potential for mature moral reasoning |
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Conservation
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Properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in forms of objects
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Egocentrism
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Pre-operational child's difficulty taking another point of view.
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Theory of Mind
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People's ideas about their own and others' mental states-about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behavior these might predict.
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Imprinting
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ex. when ducks become attached to the first thing they see move.
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Puberty
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Period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing
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Primary Sex Characteristics
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The body structure that makes sexual reproduction
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Secondary Sex Characteristics
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Non reproductive sexual characteristics such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality and body hair.
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Menarche
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first menstrual period in females.
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Preconventional Morality
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Before age 9, morality mainly focused on self-intrest: they obey rules either to avoid punishment or gain concrete rewards
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Conventional morality
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early adolescences, morality usually evolves to a more conventional level that cares for others and upholds laws and social rules simply because they are the laws and rules
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Postconventional Morality
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Those who develop the abstract reasoning of formal operational thought may reach a third level of morality, affirming people's agreed-upon rights or following self-defined basic ethic principles.
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