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Learning Unit
Unit 5- notecards
Question | Answer |
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Zygotes | the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo |
Embryo | the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month |
Fetus | the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth |
Teratogens | agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm |
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) | physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions |
Habituation | decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner. |
Maturation | biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience |
Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
Schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
Assimilation | interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas |
Accomodation | adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information |
Sensorimotor stage | in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities |
Object Permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived |
Preoperational Stage |