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The Developing Person

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developmental psychology   show
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zygote   show
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embryo   show
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show the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth.  
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show agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach theembryo orfetus during prenatal development and cause harm.  
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fetal alcoholsyndrom (FAS)   show
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show a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple.  
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habituation   show
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maturation   show
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schema   show
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assimilation   show
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show adapting one's current understandings(schemas) to incorporate new information.  
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cognition   show
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sensorimotor stage   show
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show the awareness that things continue to exisit even when not perceived.  
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preoperational stage   show
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show the principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.  
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show in Piaget's theory, the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view.  
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show people's ideas about their own and other's mental states-about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict.  
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autism   show
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show in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6 to 11 years of age) during wich children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events.  
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show in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract conceptions.  
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stranger anxiety   show
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attachment   show
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show an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experience produces proper development.  
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imprinting   show
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show according to Erik Erickson, 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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show a sense of one's identity and personal worth.  
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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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show the body structures that make sexual reproduction possible. (ovaries, testies, and external genitalia)  
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secondary sex characteristics   show
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menarche   show
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identity   show
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show in Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood.  
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show the time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experieces as her ability to reproduce declines.  
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Alzheimer's disease   show
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cross-sectional study   show
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longitudinal study   show
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show one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.  
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show one's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.  
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social clock   show
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