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| scientific study of the patterns of growth, change, and stability that occur from conception through adolescence |
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| examines the ways in which the body's makeup (brain, nervous system, muscles, senses) help determine behavior |
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| seeking to understand how growth and change in intellectual capabilities affect a persons behavior |
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| social/personality development |
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| characteristics that differentiate one person from the other and how interactions with others and social relationships grow and change over the life span |
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| group of people born at around the same time in the same place |
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| certian things must occur for normal development |
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| particular development occurs most easily |
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| traits, abilities, and capacities that are inherited from one's parents (eye color, hair, race, disease) |
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| environmental influences that shape behavior (neighborhood, school, drugs, friends, religion, family) |
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| psychodynamic perspective |
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| behavior is motivated by inner forces, memories, and conflicts (no control) |
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| unconcious forces act to determine personality and behavior |
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| series of stages that children pass through (Freud) stages are: oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital |
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| changes in our interactions with and understanding of one another (& ourselves) |
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| organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus |
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| voluntary response is strengthened or weakend, depending on its association with positive or negative consequences |
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| social-cognitive learning theory |
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| learning by observing the behavior of another person (model) |
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| focuses on the processes that allow people to know, understand, and think about the world |
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| sex cells from the mother (ovum) and father (sperm) that form a new cell at conception |
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| new cell formed by the process of fertilization |
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| basic unit of genetic information |
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| portions of DNA that are organized in 23 pairs |
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| the one trait that is expressed when two competing traits are present |
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| trait within an organism that is present, but not expressed |
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| organism's entire genetic inheritance (not visible) |
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| observable traits in a person (personality, appearance, intelligence) |
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| disorder produced by the presence of an extra chromosome on the 21st pair |
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| sperm and ovum join to form a single new cell |
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| stages of the prenatal period |
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| germinal (f-2weeks) embryonic (2weeks-8weeks) fetal (8weeks-birth) |
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| organ that provides nourishment and oxygen via the umbilical cord |
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| developing child from 8 weeks after conception until birth |
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| agents and conditions that can impair prenatal development and result in birth defects or death (virus, drugs, chemicals) |
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1. dilation: widening of cervix
2. expulsion or birth: ends when baby is born
3. delivery of the placenta |
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| two arteries and one vein; linkage between mother and fetus |
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cephalic (head points downward)
breech (feet and rump first)
transverse (shoulders first) |
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| measurement system for a newborn (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration) |
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| oxygen deprivation, can cause cerebral palsy |
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| delivery of a child that is not alive |
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| death within the first year of life |
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| unlearned, organized involuntary responses that occur automatically in the presense of a certain stimuli (grasp, sucking, swallowing, cough, blink) |
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