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| Changing existing mental structures to explain new experiences. |
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| The age at which a baby can survive in the event of a premature birth. |
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| The principal class of gonadal hormones in males. |
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| The belief that all things are living. |
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| Interpreting new experiences in terms of existing menal structures without changing them. |
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| A close, emotional bond of affection between infants and their caregivers. |
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| An in-depth investigation of an individual subject. |
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| The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem, neglecting other important aspects. |
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| The head-to-foot direction of motor development. |
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| Threadlike strands of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules that carry genetic information. |
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Transitions in youngsters' patterns of thinking, including reasoning, remembering, and problem
solving. |
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| An intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise. |
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| Piaget's term for the awareness that physical quantities remain constant in spite of changes in their shape or appearance. |
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| The structure that connects the two cerebral hemispheres. |
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A research design in which investigators compare groups of subjects of differing age who are
observed at a single point in time. |
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| Crystallized intelligence |
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| One's ability to apply acquired skills and knowledge in problem solving. |
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| An abnormal condition marked by multiple cognitive defects that include memory impairment. |
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| The sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progresses from conception to death. |
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| The average age at which individuals display various behaviors and abilities. |
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| An increase in the strength of a habituated response elicited by a new stimulus. |
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| A limited ability to share another person's viewpoint. |
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The second stage of prenatal development, lasting from two weeks until the end of the second
month. |
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| A subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by bodily arousal (the physiological component) and by characteristic overt expressions (the behavioral component). |
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| Chronological, or temporally dated, recollections of personal experiences. |
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| The principal class of gonadal hormones in females. |
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| A sequence of stages that families tend to progress through. |
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A collection of congenital (inborn) problems associated with excessive alcohol use during
pregnancy. |
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| The third stage of prenatal development, lasting from two months through birth. |
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| A physiological reaction to threat in which the autonomic nervous system mobilizes the organism for attacking (fight) or fleeing (flight) an enemy. |
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| One's reasoning ability, memory capacity, and speed of information processing. |
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| Culturally constructed distinctions between masculinity and femininity. |
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| Actual disparities between the sexes in typical behavior or average ability. |
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| Expectations about what is appropriate behavior for each sex. |
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| Widely held beliefs about males' and females' abilities, personality traits, and behavior. |
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| DNA segments that serve as the key functional units in hereditary transmission. |
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| The first phase of prenatal development, encompassing the first two weeks after conception. |
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