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| a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span |
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| the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo |
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| the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month |
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| the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth |
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| agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal developmental and cause harm |
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| fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) |
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| physical and cognitive abnormalitites in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking |
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| biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience |
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| all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
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| a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
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| interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas |
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| adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information |
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| in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about two years of age)during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activating |
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| the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived |
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| in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 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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| 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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| in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view |
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| people's ideas about their own and other's mental states-about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict |
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| concrete operational stage |
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| in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive developmental (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operational that enable them to think logically about concrete events |
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