Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

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

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

People's ideas about their own and other's mental states- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and he behaviors that these might predict.

Piaget's theory -the stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental operations that enable them t think logically about actual events.

The fear of unknown people that infants commonly display beginning by about 8 months of age.

Our sense of being male or female

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

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

The stage of moral development where actions are judged as "right" because they flow from people's rights or from self-defined, basic ethical principles.

The stage theory that each stage of life had a conflict that that needs resolution. Ex. autonomy vs. shame and doubt.

Disease that first involves memory deterioration, then reasoning. Underlying this disease is a loss of brain cells and deterioration of the neurons that produce acetylcholine.

Psychologist who came up the theory on the three parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive.

This type fo parenting style imposes rules and expects obedience.

Theorist who believed that children learn best by interacting with others and developed the idea that a child has a zone of proximal development which was the zone between what they could learn with and without help.

Psychologist that developed three stages of moral development for women.

The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.

Used studies with monkeys to prove that attachment formed through touch more than through feeding.

Designer of the strange situation experiments to define secure and insecure attachment.

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

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

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

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

Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking,. In some cases signs include a small, out of proportion head, and abnormal facial features.

A general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life

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

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

Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

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

Concept or a framework that organizes and interprets information.

In Piaget's theory, the stage (birth to nearly 2) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

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

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.

The first ejaculation for males

The first menstrual period for females

The body structures that make sexual reproduction possible.

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

In Erikson's theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in young adulthood.

The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.

In Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6-7) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.

Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease with age, especially during late adulthood.

Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.

A set of expected behaviors, attitudes, and traits for males or for females.

A time when adults reckon with their mortality and their sense of a dwindling number of remaining years of productive life.

Developer of the Psychosexual Stages of Development

Developer of the Social Learning Theory; associated with Observational Learning; Bobo Doll experiment

How does our genetic inheritance interact with our experiences to influence our development?

The stages of cognitive development that include: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational developed by