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PSY100 Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. | Habituation |
| In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts. | Formal operational stage |
| Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood | Fluid intelligence |
| The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth | Fetus |
| Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome |
| For some people in modern cultures, a period in the late teens to early twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood. | Emerging Adulthood |
| The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month | Embryo |
| In Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view. | Egocentrism |
| A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. | Developmental Psychology |
| Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, tend to increase with age. | Crystallized intelligence |
| A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another. | Cross-sectional study |
| AN optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. | Critical Period |
| The principle that properties such as mass, volume and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects. | Conservation |
| In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. | Concrete Operational Stage |
| All mental activities associates with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. | Cognition |
| According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trust worthy | Basic Trust |
| A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind | Autism |
| An emotional tie with another person | Attachment |
| Interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas | Assimilation |
| The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence | Adolescence |
| Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information | Accommodation |
| The fertilized egg | Zygote |
| people's ideas about their own and the others' mental states | Theory of mind |
| agents that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm | teratogens |
| The fear of strangers that infants commonly display | Stranger anxiety |
| The "we" aspect of our self-concept | social identity |
| The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement | Social clock |
| In Piaget's experiment, the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities | sensorimotor stage |
| Our understanding and evaluation of who we are | self-concept |
| nonreproductive sexual characteristics | secondary sex characteristics |
| A concept or framework that organizes and interpret information | schema |
| The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing | puberty |
| the body structures that make reproduction possible | primary sex characteristics |
| In Piaget's theory, the stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operation of concrete logic | preoperational |
| The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived | object permanence |
| the time of natural cessation of menstruation | menopause |
| the first menstrual period | menarche |
| biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience | maturation |
| research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period | longitudinal study |
| In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships | intimacy |
| the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life | imprinting |
| our sense of self | identity |
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