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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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Teratogens   show
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome   show
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Maturation   show
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show All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.  
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Schema   show
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show Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.  
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Accommodation   show
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Sensorimotor stage   show
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Objects Permanence   show
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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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Egocentrism   show
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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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show The stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental operation that enable them to think logically about concrete events.  
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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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Puberty   show
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Gender   show
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show Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone.  
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show The sex chromosome found in both men and women. Females have two X chromosomes; males have one. An X chromosome from each parent produces a female child.  
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Y Chromosome   show
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Primary Sex Characteristic   show
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show Non-reproductive sexual characteristics.  
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show The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty.  
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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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Gender Role   show
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show Our sense of being male or female.  
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Gender Typing   show
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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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Emerging Adulthood   show
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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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Crystallized Intelligence   show
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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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Contact Comfort   show
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show A restrictive parenting style in which the parent or caregiver stresses obedience.  
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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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