FORTNITE LUKO DEVELOPMENT 3C

developmental psychology

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

zygote

The fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.

embryo

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

fetus

The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth.

teratogens

Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.

fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)

Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking.

maturation

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

schema

A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

assimilation

Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

accommodation

Adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information.

sensorimotor stage

In Piaget's theory, the stage from birth to about 2 years of age during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

object permanence

The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.

preoperational stage

In Piaget's theory, the stage from 2 to about 6 or 7 years when a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.

egocentrism

In Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view.

concrete operational 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 operations that enable logical thinking about concrete events.

formal operational stage

In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development normally beginning about age 12 during which people begin to think logically and creatively.

basic trust

According to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers.

self-concept

All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question, 'Who am I?'

gender

The biologically and socially influenced characteristics by which people define male and female.

gender role

A set of expected behaviors for males or for females.

gender identity

Our sense of being male or female.

social identity

The 'we' aspect of our self-concept that comes from our group memberships.

primary sex characteristics

The body structures (ovaries, testes, and external genitalia) that make sexual reproduction possible.

secondary sex characteristics

Nonreproductive sexual characteristics, such as female breasts and hips, male voice quality, and body hair.

cross-sectional study

A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.

longitudinal study

Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.

social clock

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

adolescence

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

crystalized intelligence

one’s accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age

fluid intelligence

ones ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.

synaptic pruning

the process in which the brain removes neurons and synapses that it does not need

conservation

principle which properly such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects