AP Psych DLD 2/5

the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.

the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month.

the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth.

agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.

physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions.

decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner.

biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.

all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemas.

Development - adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information.

the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.

in Piaget's theory, the stage (from 2 to about 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.

the principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.

in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view.