AP Psychology

• fertilized egg
• enters 2 week pd. of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo

developing humann organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through 2nd month

developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth

agents that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm

physical and cognitive abnormalities n children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking

decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation

biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior

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

concept or framework that organizews and interprets info

interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas

adapting our current understanding to incorporate new info

• piaget
• during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensoryimpressions and motor activities

awareness that things continue to exist even when not percieved

• piaget
• stage during which a child learns to use langauge but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

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

preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view

ppl's idea about their own and other's mental states about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behaviors these might predict

• piaget
• stage of cognitive development during which children gain mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

• piaget
• stage of cognition development during which ppl begin to think logically about abstract concepts

disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication. social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind

fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months

emotional tie with another person

optimal pd. shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development

process by which certain animals form attchments during a critical pd. very early in life

• erik erikson
• sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy
• formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers

our understanding and evaluation of who we are

• transition pd. from childhood to adulthood
• puberty to individual

• pd of sexual maturation
• person becomes capable of reproducing

body structures that make sexual reproduction possible

• nonreproduction sexual characteristics
• breasts, hips, male voice

first menstural pd

• erikson
• our sense of self
• adolescents task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and intergrating various roles

• the "we" part of our self-concept
• the part of our answer to "Who amI?" that comes from our group membership

• erikson
• ability to form close, loving, relationship
• a primary development task in late adolescence and early adulthood

for some ppl in modern cultures, pd from late teens to early twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood

• time of natural cessation of menstruation
• biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines

a study in which ppl of differ ages are compared with one another

research in which the same ppl are restudied and retested over a long pd

• our accumulated knowldge and verbal skills
• tends to increase with age

• our ability to reason speedily and abstractly
• tends to decrease during late adulthood

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