SI chap. 5
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| Developmental psychology | studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout life span
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| zygotes | the fertilized egg; conception to 2 weeks
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| embryo | developing human organism; 2 weeks to 9 weeks
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| fetus | developing human organism; 9 weeks to birth
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| teratogens | harmful agents that can reach the embryo or fetus
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| maturation | biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior
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| cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communication
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| schema | a concept or framework
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| assimilation | interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schema
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| accommodation | adapting our current understanding to incorporate new information
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| Piaget's theory | 4 stages: sensorimotor stage, preoperational, concrete, and formal
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| Sensorimotor | Piaget: infants learn in terms of their senses (0-2)
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| object permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when out of sight
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| preoperational | Piaget: child learns to use language but does not comprehend concrete logic (2-7)
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| egocentrism | child has difficulty taking another's point of view
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| concrete operational | Piaget: child gains mental operations and are able to think logically (7-11)
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| formal operational | Piaget: stage of cognitive development where people can think about abstract concepts (11+)
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| attachment | emotional tie with another person
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| critical periods | optimal period when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produce proper development
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| self-concept | our understanding and evaluation of who we are
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| adolescence | period from childhood to adulthood
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| puberty | period of sexual maturation
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| primary sex characteristics | reproductive organs and external genitalia
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| secondary sex characteristics | nonreproductive traits such as hips and facial hair
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| menarche | first menstrual period
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| Kohlberg theory | Moral reasoning: preconventional, conventional, postconvential
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| Erikson's stages | Psychosocial development: 8 stages
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| identity | our sense of self
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| social identity | our self concept that comes from our group membership
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| emerging adulthood | period from late teens to early twenties that bridges the gap from dependence to full independence
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| cross-sectional study | people of different are compared with one another
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| longitudinal study | same people are restudied and retested over a long period
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| crystallized intelligence | our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; increases with age
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| fluid intelligence | ability to reason speedily and abstractly; decreases during late adulthood
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| social clock | culturally preferred timing of social events (marriage, parenthood, retirement)
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