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Psychology - Childhood Development

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Baby's tendency, when touched on th cheek to open the mouth and search for the nipplerooting reflex
Person's characteristic emotional excitabilitytemperament
Adapting current schemas to incorporate new informationaccommodation
All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and rememberingcognition
Emotional tie with another person shown by seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separationattachment
Optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain experiences produces proper developmentcritical period
Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behaviormaturation
Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret informationschemas
In Piaget's theory, the inability of the preoperational child to take another person's point of view or to understand that symbols can represent other objectsegocentrism
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 cannot yet think logicallypreoperational stage
In piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants learn about the world through their sensory impressions and motor activitiessensorimotor stage
In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental skills that let them think logically about concrete events.concrete operational stage
In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts and form strategies about things they may not have experiencedformal operational stage
Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing schemasassimilation
Physical and cognitive abnormalities that appear in children whose mothers consumed large amounts of alcohol while pregnant.fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Pioneer in the study of developmental psychology who introduced a stagea theory of cognitive development that led to a better understanding of children's thought processesJean Piaget
Researcher who focused on critical attachment periods in baby birds, a concept he called imprintingKonrad Lorenz
Style of parenting marked by making demands on the child, being responsive, setting and enforcing rules, and discussing the reasons behind the rulesAuthoritarian parenting
Style of parenting marked by making demands on the child, being responsive, setting and enforcing rules, and discussing the reasons behind the rulesAuthoritative parenting
Style of parenting marked by submitting to children's desires, making few demands, and using little punishmentPermissive parenting
Substances that cross the placental barrier and prevent the fetus from developing normally.Teratogens
Awareness that things continue to exist even when you cannot see them or hear themobject permanence
Biochemical units of heredity.Genes
Developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the end of the 8th weekembryo
Fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by 8 months of agestranger anxiety
Developing human organism from about 9 weeks after conception to birth.fetus
Fertilized eggzygote
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 objectsconservation
Process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period early in life.imprinting


(AP) Human Geography Teacher
Lakeville South High School
Lakeville, MN

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