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| a branch of psychology that that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span |
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| the developing human organismfrom about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month |
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| the developing human organism from nine weeks after conception to birth |
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| agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm |
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| physical and cognitive abnormalities in childern caused by a pregnant women's drinking |
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| a baby's tendency, when touched on the cheek, to open the mouth and search for the nipple |
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| decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation |
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| biological growth proccesses that enable orderly changes in behavior, relativly uninfluenced by experience |
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| the concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
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| interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's exsisting schema's |
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| adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new information |
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| all the mental activites associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
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| in Piaget's theory, the stage from birth during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activites. |
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| the awareness that things continuse to exsist even when not precieved |
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| the stage during which a child learns to use language but does not comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic |
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| the principal that properties such as mass, volume, and number, remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects |
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| in Piaget's theory, the inablity of the preoperational child to take another;s point of view |
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| people's ideas about their own and others mental states-- about their feelings, preceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict |
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| a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of ohers' states of minds |
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| concrete operational stage |
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| in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events |
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| in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts |
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| the fear of strangers that infants commonly display |
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| an emotional tie with another person |
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| an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certian stimuli or experiences produces proper development |
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| the process by which certian animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life |
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| according to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy |
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| the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence |
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| the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing |
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| primary sex characteristics |
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| the bodt structures that make sexual reproduction possible |
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| secondary reproduction characteristics |
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| nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts, hips, male voice quality, and body hair |
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| the first menstrual period |
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| in Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships |
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| the time of natural cessation of menstruation |
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| a progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and finally, physical functioning |
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| a study in which people of different ages are compared to one another |
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| research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period of time |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| one's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age |
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| one's ability to reason speedily and abstractly |
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| the culturally preferred timing of social events, such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement |
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