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14 Cards in this Set
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Development |
Change in human capabilities through life |
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Physical processes |
Physical changes in development |
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Socioemotional processes |
Change in an individual's relationships, emotions and personality |
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Cross-sectional studies |
Studying a variety of ages at a given point in time |
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Cohort effects |
Differences in people not from age but from background |
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Nature |
An individual's biological inheritance |
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Nurture |
An individual's environmental experiences |
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Life-span developmentalists |
Study children and adults And stressed that researchers have given too little attention to adult development and aging |
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Prenatal development |
Development from a zygote to a fetus |
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Teratogen |
Any agent that causes birth defects |
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Preferential looking technique |
Giving an infant a choice of what to look at in order to test what they are stimulated by |
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Cognitive development |
How cognition changes over time |
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Assimilation |
Incorporating new information with existing knowledge |
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Sensorimotor stage |
Last from birth to about 2 years of age and defines what an infant is capable of |
