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Prenatal & Newborn
Infancy Part I
Infancy Part II
Adolescence
Sexual Development & Adulthood
100
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. 
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
100
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is a schema?
100
Fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age.
What is stranger anxiety?
100
The transition from childhood to adulthood.
What is adolescence?
100
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?
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
This study found that attachment does not derive from an association with nourishment.
What is Harlow's monkey study?
200
The ability to form close, loving relationships AND a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood.
What is intimacy?
200
A study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.
What is a cross-sectional study?
300
Chemicals and viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. 
What are teratogens?
300
Interpreting new experiences in terms of our current understandings.
What is assimilation?
300
The process by which certain animals form strong attachments during an early-life critical period.
What is imprinting?
300
Preconventional morality (self-interest, do things to avoid punishment or for a reward); conventional morality (seeking approval); and postconventional morality (believe in ethical principles).
What are Kohlberg's three levels or moral thinking and what is the focus for each level?
300
The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
What is the social clock?
400
The zygote (2 weeks); embryo (2 weeks after fertilization until the second month); and fetus (9 after conception until birth).
What are the three stages of prenatal development and when do they occur?
400
The principle that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape.
What is conservation?
400
A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
What is temperament?
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

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. 

What are the five stages of grief 

500
Nature and nurture; continuity and stages; and stability and change.
What are two out of the three major issues that developmental psychologists focus on?
500
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). 
What are the four stages of cognitive development as outlined by Piaget and what are the specific developmental milestones associated with each? Also include ages. 
500
Through social learning theory, the idea that children acquire their gender identity by observing and imitating others' gender-linked behaviors and by being rewarded or punished for acting in certain ways themselves.
How do we learn to be male or female?
500
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.
What are four out of the eight stages of Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development and what is the main issue in each? 
500
Minimal communication about birth control; guilt related to sexual activity; alcohol abuse; mass media norms of unprotected promiscuity.
What are four factors that lead to teen pregnancy?