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Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, signs include a small, out-of-proportion head and abnormal facial features. Alcohol would be known as a what in this situation

What is a teratogen 

100
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is a schema?
100
The process by which certain animals form strong attachments during an early-life critical period.
What is imprinting?
100
The transition from childhood to adulthood.
What is adolescence?
100

Young teens are not fully equipped for curbing risky behavior or making long-term plans because of the incomplete maturation of their 

Frontal Lobe

200
Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
What is habituation?
200
Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.
What is maturation?
200

Fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age.

What is stranger anxiety?

200
The ability to form close, loving relationships AND a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood.
What is intimacy?
200
The time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.
What is menopause?
300

Provide one and explain a reflex that child has in it's first  few months of life

rooting reflex
grapsing

300
Interpreting new experiences in terms of our current understandings.
What is assimilation?
300
A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
What is temperament?
300

What are Kohlberg's three levels or moral thinking and what is the focus for each level?

Preconventional morality (self-interest, do things to avoid punishment or for a reward); conventional morality (seeking approval); and postconventional morality (believe in ethical principles).

300
A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.
What is a cross-sectional study?
400

What are the three stages of prenatal development and when do they occur?

The zygote (2 weeks); embryo (2 weeks after fertilization until the second month); and fetus (9 after conception until birth).

400
The principle that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape.
What is conservation?
400

Little Sandra tenaciously clings to her mother's skirt when she tries to leave her at daycare. We would say that Sandra most clearly shows signs of which kind of attachment

insecure

400
A period from the late teens to mid-twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood.
What is emerging adulthood?
400

What are the five stages of grief and how were they portrayed in video clip we watched in class?

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

500

What are two out of the three major issues that developmental psychologists focus on?

Nature and nurture; continuity and stages; and stability and change.

500

What are the four stages of cognitive development as outlined by Piaget 

Sensorimotor stage (up until age 2, object permanence); preoperational (2 to 7, conservation and egocentrism); concrete operational (7 to 12); formal operational (12 and up).

500

A century ago, relatively few U.S. women worked for pay outside the home. Today, nearly half the U.S. workforce is female. This best illustrates a dramatic shift in

Gender norms/roles

500

What are four out of the eight stages of Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development and what is the main issue in each? 

Infancy (to 1 year), focusing on trust versus mistrust; toddlerhood (1 to 3 years), focusing on autonomy versus shame; preschool (3 to 6 years), focusing on initiative versus guilt; elementary school (6 to puberty), focusing on competence versus inferiority; adolescence (teen to 20s), focusing on identity versus role confusion; young adulthood (20s to 40s), focusing on intimacy versus isolation; middle adulthood (40s to 60s), focusing on generativity versus stagnation; and late adulthood (late 60s and up), focusing on integrity versus despair. 

500

The Walkers establish and enforce rules for their children to follow. They give reasons for the rules and invite their teenagers to join in the discussion when new rules are being made. What kind of parenting style are they using?

authoritative