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| a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. |
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| biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. |
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| a concept or framework taht organizes and interprets information |
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| interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas |
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| adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new information |
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| birth to 2 yrs, experiencing the world through senses and actions; object permanence, stranger anxiety |
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| 2-6 yrs, representing things with words and images but lacking logical reasoning; pretend play, egocentrism, language development |
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| Concrete Operational Stage |
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| 7-11 yrs., thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing artihmetical operations; conservation, mathematical transormations |
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| 12- adulthood, abstract reasoning; abstract logic, potential for mature moral reasoning. |
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| people's ideas about their own and others' mental states-- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict |
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| the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life. |
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| primary sex characteristics |
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| the body structures that make sexual reproduction possible |
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| secondary sex characteristics |
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| nonreproductive sexual characteristics |
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| the first menstrual period. |
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| before age 9; they obey either to avoid punishment or tto gain concrete rewards |
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| social rules, upholds laws, being able to take others' perspectives. |
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| postconventional morality |
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| the abstract reasoning of formal operation thought, affirms people's agreed-upon rights or follows what one personally perceives as basic ethical principles. |
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| a study in which people of different ages are compare with one another |
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| research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period. |
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