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The Developing Person

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developmental psychology   show
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show the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.  
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show the developing human organism from about two weeks after fertilization though the second month.  
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fetus   show
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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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show biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.  
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schema   show
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assimilation   show
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accommodation   show
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show all the mental activities associated with thinking,knowing,remembering,and communication.  
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show in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.  
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object permanence   show
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show in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.  
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conservation   show
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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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theory of mind   show
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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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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 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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self-concept   show
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show the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence.  
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puberty   show
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primary sex characteristics   show
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show nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breast and hips, male voice quality, and body hair.  
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show the first menstral period.  
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show one's sence of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sence of self by testing and integrrating various roles.  
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intimacy   show
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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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show a study in which people of different ages are compaired 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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crystalized intelligence   show
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fluid intelligence   show
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social clock   show
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