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27 Cards in this Set
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Developmental psychology |
Study physical cognitive and social change through life span |
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fetal alcohol syndrome |
heavy drinking causing abnormalities in children |
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habituation |
decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation |
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maturation |
growth process that enable changes in behavior |
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cognition |
miss activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communication |
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schema |
concept or framework that organizes and interprets info |
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assimulation |
interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas |
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accommodation |
adopting our current understanding to cooperate info |
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sensorimotor stage |
infants know the world mostly in terms of sensory |
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object permanence |
awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived |
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Preoperational stage |
stage were a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend |
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conservation |
property such as master volume and number remain the same despite changes in the objects |
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egocentrism |
Childs difficulty of taking another point of view |
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theory of mind |
peoples ideas about their own and others’ mental states |
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concrete operational stage |
children begin to think logically about concrete events |
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formal operational stage |
begin to think logically about abstract concepts |
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strange situation |
caregiver attachment, a child is placed in an unfamiliar environment where caregiver leaves and returns. |
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Secure attachment |
infants are more open with caregiver, less when leave |
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Basic trust |
that the world is predictable and trustworthy , formed in infancy |
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Role |
set of expectations about social position , how you should behave |
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gender role |
set of expected behaviors attitudes and traits |
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gender identity |
sense of being male female or combination of both |
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social learning theory |
we learn social behavior by observing and imitating. or rewarded or punished |
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social identity |
The “we “ aspect of our self-concept |
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cross sectional study |
research that compares people of different ages at same point time |
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longitudinal study |
research that follows and resets same people over time |
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social clock |
culturally preferred timing of social events |
