AP PSYCHOLOGY unit 9 vocab

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Developmental psychology

Studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout life span

Fertilized egg, 2 week period of rapid cell division develops embryo

Developing human organism 2 weeks after fertilization

Developing human 9 weeks after fertilization

Agents like chemicals and viruses that could reach embryo and fetus and possible cause harm

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Physical and cognitive abnormalities caused by prenatal heavy drinking

Decreasing responsiveness to repeated stimulation

Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior relatively uninfluenced by experience

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

Concept or framework that organizes and interpret info

Interpreting our new experiences into ones current understanding or schema

Adapting our current understanding to incorporate new information

Sensorimotor stage

Paigets theory, the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities

Object permanence

Awareness objects exist even when not perceived

Pre-operational stage

Piagets theory, when a child learns to use language but doesn't comprehend that mental operations if logic

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

Piagets theory, the preoperational child's difficulty in taking another's point of view

People's ideas about their own and others mental states - what behaviors might predict

Concrete operational stage

Piagets theory, stage of cognitive development (7-11) where children gain mental operations and think logically

Formal operational stage

Piagets theory, the stage of cognitive development where people think logically about abstract concepts (age 12)

A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by a deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding states of mind

Stranger anxiety

The fear of strangers infants commonly express at 8 months

Emotional tie with another person. Shown in young children

Critical period

Optimal period after birth where exposure to certain stimuli produces proper development

Process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period

A persons characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

According to Erik Erickson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy - formed during infancy with good caregivers

Our understanding and evaluation of who we are

Biological and social influence by people perceive male and female

Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someoen

Sex chromosome found in males and females

Sex chromosome found only in male

Important male sex hormone

A set of expectations about a social position, defining designing how those in the position ought to behave

A set or expected behaviors for males and females

Gender identity

Our sense of being male or female

The acquisition of traditional masculine or feminine role

Social learning theory

The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished

The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence

The period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproducing

Primary sex characteristics

The body structures that make reproduction possible

Secondary sex characteristics

Non reproductive sex characteristics like boobs, voice, build, hips

First menstrual period

Our sense of self, according to Erickson, an adolescence a task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles

Social identity

The we aspect of self concept. The part of the question of who am I is formed by groups.

Ability to form close loving relationships, primary development task

Emerging adulthood

Period late teens to mid twenties full independent adult hood

The time to natural cessation of menstruation - biological changes a women goes through

Cross sectional study

A study in which people of different ages are compared

Longitudinal studies

Research with people of same age

Crystalized intelligence

Out accumulated knowledge and verbal skills, tends to increase with age

Fluid intelegence

Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly tends to decrease during adulthood

The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage parenthood, and retirement

Preconventional

Caring for others, upholding laws and societies rules

Postconventiomal

Based on own ethical principals

Impose rules expect obedience

Submit to child's desires

Parents demanding and responsive, set rules and explain them

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