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Developmental Psychology
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Def: a branch of psych that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Psychology |
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Zygote
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Def: The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Embryo |
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Embryo
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Def: The developing human organism from about 2-weeks after fertilization through the second month.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Fetus |
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Fetus
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Def: The developing human organism from 9-weeks after conception to birth.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Teratogens |
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Teratogens
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Def: Agent, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal dev. and cause harm.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Fetal Alcohol Sydrome |
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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Def: physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Teratogens |
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Rooting Reflex
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Def: A baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Maturation |
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Habituation
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Def: Decreasing responiveness with repeated stimulation.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Maturation |
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Maturation
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Def: Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Habituation |
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Assimilation
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Def: Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Accommodation |
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Accommodation
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Def: The process by which the eye's lenses changes shape in focus near or far objects on the retina.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Object Permanence |
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Cognition
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Def: All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Sensorimotor Stage |
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Sensorimotor Stage
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Def: In Piaget's theory, the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities. 0-2yrs.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Preoperational Stage |
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Object Permanence
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Def: The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Cognition |
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Preoperational Stage
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Def: In Piaget's theory, the stage during which a child learns to use lang but doesn't yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic. 2-6/7yrs
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Sensorimotor Stage |
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Conservation
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Def: The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Object Permanence |
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Egocentrism
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Def: In Piaget's theory, the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Preoperational Stage |
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Theory of Mind
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Def: People's ideas about their own and other's mental states-about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Egocentrism. |
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Autism
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Def: A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Down Syndrome |
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Concrete Operational Stage
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Def: In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive dev. during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. age 6/7-11yrs.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Formal Operational Stage |
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Formal Operational Stage
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Def: The stage of cognitive dev. during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Concrete Operational Stage |
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Stranger Anxiety
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Def: The fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8mo. of age.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Attachment |
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Attachment
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Def: An emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Stranger Anxiety |
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Critical Period
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Def: An optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper dev.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Imprinting |
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Imprinting
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Def: The process by which certain animals form attachments during a crit. pd very early in life.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Critical Period |
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Basic Trust
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Def: According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Self-Concept |
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Self-Concept
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Def: A sense of one's ID and personal worth; all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?"
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Adolescence |
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Adolescence
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Def: The transition pd from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Puberty |
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Puberty
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Def: The pd of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Adolescence |
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Primary Sex Characteristics
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Def: The body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Secondary Sex Characteristics |
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Secondary Sex Characteristics
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Def: Nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as famle breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Primary Sex Characteristics |
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Menarche
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Def: The first menstrual pd.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Primary Sex Characteristics |
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Identity
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Def: One's sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Self-Concept |
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Intimacy
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Def: The ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary dev task in late adolescence and early adulthood.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Identity |
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Menopause
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Def: The time of natureal cessation of menstruation; also refers to the bio changes a woman experiences as her abil to reproduce declines.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Secondary Sex Characteristics |
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Alzheimer's Disease
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Def: A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of mem, reasoning, lang, and finally physical functioning.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Cross-Sectional Study |
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Cross-Sectional Study
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Def: A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Longitudinal Study |
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Longitudinal Study
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Def: Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Cross-Sectional Study |
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Crystallized Intelligence
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Def: One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Fluid Intelligence |
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Fluid Intelligence
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Def: One's ability reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Crystallized Intelligence |
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Social Clock
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Def: The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: fasdjlk;fsdjlkfsad |
