Brain cells are sculpted by heredity and experience
What is infant physical development?
100
(Birth to nearly 2 years) tools for thinking and reasoning and thinking change with development; associated with schema, assimilation, and accommodation
What is the sensorimotor stage?
100
Preconventional morality (before age 9), conventional morality (early adolescence), and postconventional morality (adolescence and beyond)
What are Kohlberg's Level of Moral Thinking?
100
(Roughly twenties and thirties) Muscular strength, reaction time, sensory keenness and cardiac output peak; peak time for some learning and memory
What is early adulthood?
200
Made up of the zygote's inner cells
What is an embryo?
200
Earliest conscious memories seldom predate third birthday
What is infantile amnesia?
200
Awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
What is object permanence?
200
Involves the "we" aspect of self-concept
What is adolescent social development?
200
(Beyond thirties to 65) Physical vigor more closely linked to health and exercise than age; Physical decline is gradual; gradual decline in fertility; show greater decline in ability to recall rather than recognize memory
What is middle adulthood?
300
Body organs being to form and function and at 9 weeks is recognizably human
What is a fetus?
300
Primarily universal in sequence, but not in timing, and is guided by genes and influenced by environment
What is infant motor development?
300
(About 2 to 7 years) Child learns to use language but cannot yet perform the mental operations of concrete logic; associated with lack of conservation and egocentrism
What is the preoperational stage?
300
Are more important when it comes to education, discipline, charitableness, responsibility, orderliness, and ways of interacting with authority figures
What are parents?
300
(Years after 65) Visual sharpness, distance perception, and stamina diminish; immune system weakens; neural processing lag occurs; characterized by better retention of meaningful than meaningless information, longer word production time
What is late adulthood?
400
Agent, such as a chemical or virus, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
What is a teratogen?
400
associated with later crawling, but not later walking
What is the back to sleep position?
400
(7 to 11 years) Children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
What is the concrete operational stage?
400
Are more important for learning cooperation, for finding the road to popularity, for inventing styles of interaction among people of the same age
What are peers?
400
Associated with loss of brain cells and deterioration of acetylcholine-producing neurons; protein fragments that accumulate as plaque
What is Alzheimer's disease?
500
Cries to elicit help and comfort. Also, searches for sights and sounds linked to other humans, especially mother.
What is a competent newborn?
500
Believed children are active thinkers and believed minds developed through series of universal, irreversible stages
Who is Piaget?
500
(12 years old through adulthood) Children are no longer limited to concrete reasoning based on actual experience and are able to think abstractly
What is the formal operational stage?
500
Identity vs. Role Confusion
What is Erikson's adolescent stage of psychosocial development?
500
our ability to reason speedily and abstractly—tends to decrease during late adulthood