1. Unit 9 – Developmental Psychology
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Unit 9 – Developmental Psychology

2. A human organism from after the embryonic stage until birth.
Fetus

3. Awareness that objects still exist when out of sight.
Object Permanence

4. Piaget’s second stage where children learn to use language and demonstrates egocentrism.
Preoperational Stage

5. In women, the ending of the menstrual cycle around age 50.
Menopause

6. The ability to understand that a quantity does not change even when it is arranged differently.
Conservation

7. An emotional tie with another person.
Attachment

8. The process by which certain animals form attachments during the critical period. Humans do not do this.
Imprinting

9. A sense of one’s identity and personal worth.
Self-concept

10. Parenting style where parents impose rules and expect obedience.
Authoritarian

11. Kohlberg’s third stage where people promote society’s welfare and look to promote justice.
Post Conventional

12. Crystallized Intelligence
Your accumulated intelligence. This increases up to old age.
Crystallized Intelligence

13. First menstrual period at about age 12, marks female fertility.
Menarche

14. The developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the 2nd month.
Embryo

15. The two aspects of life that dominate adulthood.
Love and Work

16. Secondary Sex Characteristics
The non-reproductive sex characteristics (breasts, facial hair, Adam’s apple, etc.)
Secondary Sex Characteristics

17. Formal Operational Stage
Piaget’s fourth stage where children think logically about abstract concepts and reason.
Formal Operational Stage

18. Midlife Transition (Crisis)
A supposed time of great struggle and regret as people enter their 40s.
Midlife Transition (Crisis)

19. Psychologist known for his Zone of Proximal Development.
Lev Vygotsky

20. This occurs when a newborn’s cheek is touched, they look for a nipple to feed.
Rooting Reflex

21. Parenting style where parents submit to kids’ desires, not enforcing limits or standards for child behavior.
Permissive

22. The transition period from childhood to adulthood.
Adolescence

23. Substances such as viruses and chemicals that can damage the developing embryo/fetus.
Teratogens

24. Process by which we incorporate new information into our existing schemas.
Assimilation

25. Feeling that one’s life has been meaningful and worthwhile.
Integrity

26. Psychologist known for his Theory of Cognitive Development.
Jean Piaget

27. The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.
Puberty

28. Male fertility milestone marked by first ejaculation of semen with viable sperm at about age 14.
Spermarche

29. Parents enforce rules, limits, and standards, but also explain, discuss, listen, and express respect for child’s ideas and wishes.
Authoritative

30. Piaget’s first stage where infants explore the world through looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping.
Sensorimotor Stage

31. The feeling when you see people doing degrading or subhuman acts.
Disgust

32. Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
Cognition

33. The period shortly after birth when certain events must take place to facilitate proper development.
Critical Period

34. Psychologist known for his Stages Theory of Psychosocial Development.
Erik Erikson

35. The stages that all infants goes through which includes sitting unsupported, crawling, beginning to walk, and walking independently.
Maturation

36. Psychologist known for his Stages Theory of Moral Development.
Lawrence Kohlberg

37. Kohlberg’s first stage where people avoid punishment and further self-interests.
Preconventional

38. Intelligence in which you have the ability to reason quickly and solve logic problems. This decreases as you age.
Fluid Intelligence

39. Seeing the world from one’s own perspective and the inability to see reality from the perspective of another person.
Egocentrism

40. A type of study in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.
Longitudinal Study

41. Sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy.
Basic Trust

42. The fear of strangers by infants beginning at 8 months.
Stranger Anxiety

43. Mental disintegration.
Dementia

44. Process by which we modify our schemas to fit new information.
Accommodation

45. The culturally preferred timing of social events like marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
Social Clock

46. A fertilized egg.
Zygote

47. Concrete Operational Stage
Piaget’s third stage where children think logically about concrete events. They can now think mathematically.
Concrete Operational Stage

48. The moment an egg and a sperm join to form a zygote.
Conception

49. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Abnormalities cause by exposure to alcohol in the fetal stage.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

50. Kohlberg’s second stage where people conform, live up to expectations of others and maintain law and order.
Conventional

51. The lack of memory of events from age 1 – 3.
Infantile Amnesia

52. Disorder marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding others’ state of mind.
Autism

53. Primary Sex Characteristics
The reproductive organs (ovaries, uterus, and testes) and external genitals (vulva and penis).
Primary Sex Characteristics

54. To discern right from wrong and to act in the right way.
Morality

55. The feeling people get when seeing people show exceptional generosity, compassion, or courage.
Elevation

56. Cross-Sectional Study
A type of study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.
Cross-Sectional Study

57. A progressive and irreversible brain disorder which reduces memory, reasoning, language, and physical functioning.
Alzheimer’s Disease

58. Mental representations that organize and categorize information processed by our brains.
Schema