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what ages are infancy and childhood?   infancy = newborn to toddler childhood = toddler to teenager  
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When does the majority of you brain cells form?   Born with the most brain cells we will ever have  
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When does frontal lobe growth begin?   3-6 years old  
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What is infantile Amnesia?   not being able to make concrete memories before the age of at least 3  
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What are critical periods?   time period where lamguage and skills are most easily learned, and experiences normal development  
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What is maturation?   sequence of biological growth that allows for changes in behavior  
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Who is Jean Piaget?   A developmental psychologist who decided that childrens brains development in stages.  
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what is cognition?   all the mental activities associated with thinking,knowing,remembering, and communicating  
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what are schemas?   concepts or mental molds that help us organize and interpret information  
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What is assimlilation?   interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas  
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What is accommodation?   adjusting schemas to incorporate new information  
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What is object permanence and at what stage does it develop?   the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived and occurs in the sensorimotor stage.  
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What is conservation and at what stage does it develop?   quantity remains the same despite changes in shape and it occurs in the preoperational stage  
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What are ego centrism and theory of mind? At what stage do they occur?   egocentrism=only seeing the world from your own view point theory of mind= people's ideas about their own thoughts and others thoughts and they both occur in the preoperational stage  
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What are the main issues with Piaget'ss stages?   the four stages are not as rigid as he proposed and he underestimated children's development. It also does not explain how or why changes in thinking occur  
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What is stranger development? when does it develop?   the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by 8 months of age  
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what is attachement?   an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on seperation  
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What is imprinting? what do humans do instead?   process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life. humans prefer to use familiarity, I.e. same food, same book, same people, same home  
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What is an example of secure attachment?   child will play happily as long as mommy is there. if she leaves they become distressed  
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what is an example of unsecure attachment?   child is less likely to explore and will most likely cling to mommy instead of playing  
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what is basic trust and who came up with the idea?   a sense that the world is predictable and reliable and joan erikson  
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