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What is Developmental Psychology
A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span.
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What is Maturation
Biological growth processes that enable normal changes in behavior.
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What is Object Permanence
The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
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What is Role Confusion
A failure to develop a consistent identity.
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What is Crystallized Intelligence
The type of intelligence required to be successful at Jeopardy.
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What is Attachment
An emotional tie with another person.
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What is Egocentrism
Difficulty taking another’s point of view.
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What is Sensorimotor Stage
The stage from birth to 2 years of age during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensations and movements.
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What is Identity vs. Role Confusion
Issue in which teenagers test roles and form an identity or become confused about who they are.
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What is Authoritative
The best parenting style, according to psychologists.
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What is Self-Concept
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves.
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What is Schema
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
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What is Formal Operational Stage
The stage beginning at age 12 during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
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What is Integrity vs. Despair
Issue in which older adults feel satisfaction or failure about their lives.
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What is Postconventional Morality
The stage of morality focusing on right and wrong based on one’s values.
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What is Temperament
A person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
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What is Assimilation
Interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas.
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What is Preoperational Stage
The stage from 2 to 6 or 7 years of age during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.
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What is Initiative vs. Guilt
Issue in which preschoolers learn to make plans or feel guilty about being independent.
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What is Secure
The most common attachment style occurring in about 66% of children.
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What is Longitudinal Study
Research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.
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What is Accommodation
Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information.
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What is Concrete Operational Stage
The stage from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about events.
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What is Industry vs. Inferiority
Issue in which children learn to apply themselves or they feel inferior.
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What is Teratogens
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
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