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ThinkPsychology CH10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accommodation | a process in which a person adjusts and refines his or her schemas based on new information |
| Adolescence | the period of transition from childhood to adulthood. |
| Age changes | developmental changes that track how individuals change as they age. |
| Age differences | developmental changes that consider how people of varying ages differ from one another. |
| Andropause | gradual sexual changes in men as they age that include declines in sperm count, testosterone level, and speed of erection and ejaculation. |
| Assimilation | process in which a person interprets new experiences in terms of existing schemas |
| Cephalocaudal rule | the tendency for motor skills to emerge in sequence from top to bottom |
| Chronological age | the amount of time that has passed since a person was born |
| Cognition | consists of mental activities associated with sensation, perception, thinking , knowing, remembering , and communicating |
| Cross-sectional studies | collect data from different individuals at different ages in order to track age differences |
| Developmental age | the point at which someone falls among developmental stages; not necessarily related to chronological age |
| Developmental psychologist | study the physical, cognitive, and social changes that people experience throughout their lives |
| Habituation | describes decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated exposure to that stimulus |
| Joint visual attention | describes a behavior in which a baby looks at an adult's eyes, follows the adult's gaze, and then directs his or her own gaze toward whatever the adult is looking at |
| Longitudinal studies | collect data from the same individuals over a period of time to track age changes |
| Menopause | the end of the menstrual cycle and ability to bear children |
| Motor development | the emergent ability to execute physical actions. |
| Normative investigations | consist of research conducted in order to establish norms |
| Primary sex characteristics | sexual organs present at birth and directly involved in human reproduction |
| Prospective memory | remembering to perform a specific action |
| Proximodistal rule | the tendency for motor skills to emerge in sequence from inside to outside |
| Puberty | the period in which a person's body goes through the changes that allow him or her to reproduce |
| Reason | the skill of organizing information and beliefs into a series of steps leading to a conclusion |
| Schemas | are concepts or frameworks around which people organize and interpret information |
| Secondary sex characteristics | sexual organs and traits that develop at puberty and are not directly involved in reproduction |
| Zone of proximal development | refers to the difference between what a child can do alone versus what a child can do together with a more competent person |
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