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Developmental psychology

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A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

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Infantile amnesia

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Our earliest memories seldom predate our third birthday

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Zygote

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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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Embryo

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The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month

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Fetus

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The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

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Teratogens

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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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Fetal alcohol syndrome

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Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by pregnant women’s heavy drinking

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Habituation

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Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

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Maturation

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Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively U influenced by experience

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Cognition

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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering,and communicating

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Schema

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A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

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Assimilation

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Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

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Accommodation

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Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information

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Sensorimotor stage

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In Pisget’s theory, the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities

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Object permanence

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The awareness that things continue to exist even when I perceived

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Preopertional stage

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The stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

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Conservation

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The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

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Egocentrism

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The preopertional child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view

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Theory of mind

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People’s ideas about their own and others’ mental states- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict

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Autism spectrum disorder

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A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors

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Concrete operational stage

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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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Formal operational stage

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The stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

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