These individuals are influential in a child’s learning to cooperate with others, achieving popularity, and finding appropriate styles of interaction with others.
What are peers?
100
These are harmful agents, such as certain viruses and drugs, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
What are teratogens?
100
In this stage of Piaget’s theory of development, children gain the ability to reason abstractly.
What is the formal operational stage?
100
In Erikson’s theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in late adolescence and early adulthood.
What is intimacy?
100
This type of intelligence increases up to old age and is one’s accumulated knowledge.
What is crystallized knowledge?
200
This is a set of enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
What is culture?
200
These are fertilized eggs that enter a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.
What are zygotes?
200
This is the age of our earliest conscious memory.
What is 3.5 years?
200
When a person is dealing with Trust and Mistrust, according to Erikson, what stage are they at?
What is infancy?
200
Around age 50, this ends a women’s period of fertility.
What is menopause?
300
Asian and African countries predominantly share this type of culture, which values interdependence, tradition, and harmony.
What is a collectivist culture?
300
These psychologists deal with issues such as nature vs. nurture, whether development is a continuous process or a series of stages, and whether personality is stable or changes with age.
Who are developmental psychologists?
300
In this stage of Piaget’s theory of development, children experience the world through their sensory and motor interactions with objects, but they lack object permanence.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
300
This is the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.
What is puberty?
300
This is the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
What is social clock?
400
In this process of development, individualist cultures expect their members to be independent and to think for themselves.
What is child-rearing?
400
This birth defect is now the leading cause of mental retardation.
What is FAS or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
400
This is the term that describes a child’s difficulty in taking another’s point of view.
What is egocentrism?
400
This is the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence.
What is adolescence?
400
This type of study involves people being restudied and retested over a long period.
What is a longitudinal study?
500
While men are more vulnerable to antisocial personality disorder, more women are diagnosed with this psychological disorder, just one of the many differences between the two genders.
What is depression?
500
What is the name for the human organism that develops from 9 weeks after conception?
What is fetus?
500
Explored by Konrad Lorenz, this is the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.
What is imprinting?
500
What level of moral thinking is this? : By early adolescence, morality usually evolves to a more conventional level that cares for others and upholds laws and social rules simply because they are the laws and rules.
What is Conventional Morality?
500
These slow after 80, but physical exercise can stimulate the development of some new brain cells and connections.