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The majority if lifespan focuses on

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Human development

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Social development

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Refers to the way in which individuals interact with others

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Malnutrition, grate rate, and athletic performance is associated with the study of

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Physical development

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Explores learning, memory, and intelligence

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Cognitive lifespan development

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Learning, memory, and intelligence refers to

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Cognitive development

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Involves enduring characteristics that differentiate one person from another

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Personality

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Occurs at relatively the same time throughout all societies

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Puberty

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The concept of childhood as a special period began in the

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Eighteenth century

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The period of late adult hood does not

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Have a clear cut boundary

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In western culture the start of young adulthood commenced at age

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20

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Cohort effects

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Shared emotional and developmental challenges

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Mothers valued constant contact with their infants

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Mayan

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Race is a _________ concept in developmental science

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Biological

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In a medical setting asking a person what race they belong to is important

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To learn about possible biological factors

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Discontinuous change

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Distinct, not gradual

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Critical period

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A specific time during development at which a particular event has its greatest consequences

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Early development focuses on

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Infancy and adolescence

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Genetically determined traits ______ influence a child’s behavior and _________ influences their environment

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Directly and indirectly

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The term __________ refers to the subconscious

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Psychodynamic

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Eric Erickson

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Provided an alternative psychodynamic theory to Freuds theories

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Ericsson believe that individuals must resolve a ________ at each stage of development

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Crisis

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Contrary to Freud Erikson believe that development continues throughout the __________.

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Lifespan

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___________ Was the first American psychologist to introduce a behavioral approach to development

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John B. Watson

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Help people deal with issues relating to inherited disorders

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Genetic counselors

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The combination of both genetic and environmental factors is termed

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Multi factorial transmission

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Developmentalist Study identical twins who are raised in different Environments in order to see the influence of both

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Genetics and environment

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The closer the genetic link between two individuals the greater correspondence between their

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IQ scores

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Teraotogen is

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an environmental agent that produces birth defects

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Clinical depression during pregnancy may cause

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Negative affects on child development

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The Apgar scale

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Measures A variety of indications of health in newborns

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The basic nerve cell of the nervous system is

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Neurons

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Helps insulate Neurontin to be his transmission of nerve impulses

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Myelin

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The shape And proportion of newborn babies are simply not conductive to easy

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Mobility

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Unlearned, organized, involuntary responses that occur automatically in the presence of a certain stimuli

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Reflexes

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Babies are typically able to walk supporting themselves around

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9 months

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__________ is the all around best food for infants for the first 12 months of life

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Breast milk

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A systematic meaningful arrangement of symbols for communication

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Language

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Infants begin to understand the emotions and facial and vocal expression of others around

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4 month

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With those the positive emotional bond that developed between a child and a particular individual

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Attachment

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Infantile amnesia is the lack of memory for experiences that occur before

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3 years of age

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Went two gametes fuse they become a single cell organism called a

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Zygote

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Both female and male reproductive cells are referred to as

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Gametes

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Twins who are genetically identical are called

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Monozygotic twins

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Any differences in future development of monozygotic twins can be attribute it only to ______ factors

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Environmental

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Traits within an organism that are presented but not expressed

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Recessive

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Sometimes genes randomly change their form through

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Mutation

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Occurs due to an extra chromosome on on the 21st pair of chromosomes

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Down syndrome