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Developmental Psychology

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Zygote   show
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show The developing human organism from about 2-weeks after fertilization through the second month.  
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Fetus   show
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show Chemical and viral agents that can reach the developing human during prenatal development and cause harm.  
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show Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking.  
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Maturation   show
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Cognition   show
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show A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.  
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Assimilation   show
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show Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information.  
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Sensorimotor stage   show
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show The awareness that things continue to exist even when they are not perceived.  
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show The stage at which a child learns to use language but does not yet understand the mental operations of concrete logic.  
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show The principle Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same dispute changes in the form of objects.  
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show In Piaget's theory, the preoportational child's difficulty taking another's point of view.  
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show People's ideas about their own and others' mental states- about their feelings, perceptions, and thought, and the behaviors these might predict.  
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Concrete Operational Stages   show
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show The stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstracts concepts.  
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show A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind  
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Stranger Anxiety   show
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Attachment   show
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Critical Period   show
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show The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.  
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show 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.  
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Self-Concept   show
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Adolescence   show
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show The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.  
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Gender   show
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Aggression   show
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X Chromosome   show
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Y Chromosome   show
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show The structures that make sexual reproduction possible.  
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show Non-reproductive sexual characteristics.  
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Testosterone   show
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show The first menstrual period.  
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Identity   show
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Intimacy   show
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Menopause   show
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show A set of expectations (normalities) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave.  
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show A set of expected behaviors for males and females.  
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Gender Identity   show
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show The acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role.  
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show The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.  
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show The "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "who an I?" that comes from our group memberships.  
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show For some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to mid-twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood.  
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show A study by which people of different ages are compared with one another.  
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show Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.  
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show Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.  
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show Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.  
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show A progressive neurological disease due to widespread degeneration of brain cells.  
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show The positive effects experienced by infants or young animals when in close contact with the mother.  
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Authoritarian Parenting   show
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Authoritative Parenting   show
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show A relaxed parenting style in which the parent or caregiver behaves toward the child in a non-punishing, accepting and affirmative manner.  
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