25 Psychology Chapter 2 Child Development

when children gain the mental skills that let them think logically about concrete events.

• preoperational

• concrete operations

• formal operations

• sensorimotor

a newly fertilized egg

• prenatal

• embryo

• zygote

• fetus

adapting your current schemas to incorporate new information

• schemas

• intelligence

• assimilation

• accommodation

A response to a touch around the mouth

• grasping reflex

• rooting reflex

• walking reflex

• cooing reflex

interpreting your new experiences in terms of your existing schemas

• schemas

• intelligence

• assimilation

• accommodation

the inability to take another person’s point of view or to understand that symbols can represent other objects.

• id

• super ego

• leggo

• egocentric

 when infants learn about their world through their sensory impressions and motor activities.

• preoperational

• concrete operations

• formal operations

• sensorimotor

a cushion of cells that screens out some substances that can harm the fetus

• pancreas

• liver

• kidneys

• placenta

type of family style where the parents are the bosses

• Permissive

• Democratic

• Authoritarian

• Uninvolved

a developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception until birth.

• prenatal

• embryo

• zygote

• fetus