| A | B |
|---|
| Argument over how genetic inheritance and experience influence our development | Nature vs. Nurture |
| Examines how people are continually developing from infancy through old age | Developmental Psychology |
| The argument over whether development is a gradual process or a stage process | Continuity vs. Stages |
| The argument over whether or not our early personality traits persist through life | Stability vs. Change |
| Fertilized eggs | Zygotes |
| Inner cells of the zygote | Embryo |
| More human-looking before birth | Fetus |
| Zygotes outer cells attached to the uterine wall | Placenta |
| Agents harmful to a fetus | Teratogens |
| Possible outcome for the baby of drinking while pregnant | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome |
| A decrease in responding with repeated stimulation | Habituation |
| The processes of biological growth | Maturation |
| All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | Cognition |
| Concepts or mental molds into which we pour our experiences | Schemas |
| Interpreting in terms of current understanding | Assimilating |
| To adjust in the mind | Accomodate |
| Stage in which babies take in the world through senses and action | Sensorimotor Stage |
| The awareness that objects continue to exist even when not percieved | Object Permanence |
| Stage in which children are too young to perform mental operations | Preoperational Stage |
| The difficulty to perceive things from another's point of view | Egocentricity |
| Stage where children grasp conservation and understand that change in form does not mean change in quantity | Concrete Operational Stage |
| Stage of systematic reasoning | Formal Operational Stage |
| The need for children to be watched by the people they know | Stranger Anxiety |
| A powerful survival impulse that keeps infants close to their caregivers | Attachment Bond |
| An optimal period when certain events must take place to facilitate proper development | Critical Period |
| The rigid attachment process after birth | Imprinting |
| A sense that the world is predictable and reliable | Basic trust |
| An understanding and assessment of who an individual is | Self-concept |
| Parents who impose rules and expect obedience | Authoritarian |
| Parents who submit to their children's desires | Permissive |
| Parents who are both demanding and responsive | Authoritative |
| The years spent morphing from a child to an adult | Adolescence |
| The ending of the menstrual cycles | Menopause |
| Sexual maturation | Puberty |
| The reproductive organs and external genitalia | Primary Sex Characteristics |
| The nonreproductive traits of puberty | Secondary Sex Characteristics |
| The first menstrual period | Menarche |
| A self-definition that unifies the various selves into a consistent and comfortable sense of who one is | Identity |
| A formation around one's similar peers | Social Identity |
| Forming emotionally close relationships | Intimacy |
| Retesting the same people over a period of years | Longitudinally |
| Accumulated knowledge as reflected in vocabulary and analogies test (increases up to old age) | Crystalized Intelligence |
| Ability to reason speedily and abstractly, as when solving novel logic problems (decreases through age) | Fluid Intelligence |
| Theory that says everything around a person influences a person | Tabula Rosa |
| Worst sense as a newborn | Sight |
| Best sense as a newborn | Hearing |
| Motor control develops as- | -neurons develop |
| First major motor skill | Rolling around |
| Second major motor movement | Crawling |
| Third major motor movement | Standing |
| Fourth major motor movement | Walking |
| Fifth major motor movement | Running |
| Language development at 1-2 months | Cooing |
| Language development at 4 months | Babbling (attempting to form words) |
| Language development at 8-16 months | First word |
| Language development at 24 months | Telegraphic speech (putting words together) |
| Language development at 2-3 years | Multi-word sentences |
| Language development at 4 years | Adult speech |
| Greatest influence on child cognitive development | Jean Piaget |
| Piaget believed children knew (not thinking differently) | Less |
| What we can do with schemas | can assimilate and accommodate |
| One of the worst ways to torture someone | Solitary confinement |
| Extremely important relationship | Parent and child |
| The life expectancy today is (not a number)- | -Increasing |
| Loss of memory/understanding | Dementia |
| Lack of Ach | Alzheimer's |
| Lack of Dopamine | Parkinson's |
| 5 Grief stages (DABDA) | Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance |
