AP Psychology Chapter 9: Developmental Psychology Vocabulary Quiz

Match the term to the definition. Put the letter of the definition in the box next to the correct term. 1. Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information. a. accommodation 2. Agents that permeate the placenta during prenatal development and cause harm to the embryo or fetus. b. assimilation 3. All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, c. Attachment and communication. 4. An emotional tie with another person. d. Authoritarian 5. An understanding and assessment of who we are. e. Authoritative 6. Awareness that things continue to exist even when not present f. Autism 7. Biologically and socially influenced characteristics by which people are defined. g. cognition 8. Child s ability to take another s perspective; to seek to understand Concrete their motivations and other s reasons for doing the things they do. h. operational stage 9. Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. i. Conservation 10. Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. j. Critical period 11. Developing human organism from 2 weeks after fertilization through Developmental 2 months. k. Psychology 12. Developing human organism from 9 weeks to birth. l. Egocentrism 13. Developmental stage from 2 6 or 7 years of age which a child learns to use language but not logic. m. embryo 14. Developmental stage from birth to 2 years in which infants know the Fetal alcohol world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions. n. syndrome 15. Examines how people are continually developing physically, cognitively, socially. o. fetus Formal operational 16. Fear of strangers beginning at 8 months. p. stage 17. Fertilized human egg. q. gender 18. Heavy drinking during pregnancy results in cognitive abnormalities in children. r. habituation 19. How an individual feels about who they are. s. Imprinting 20. Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. t. maturation 21. Child exhibits signs of a lack of communication, repetitive behaviors, Object and deficient social interaction are symptoms of this disorder. u. permanence 22. Orderly sequence of biological growth processes. v. Permissive Preoperational 23. Parents who are both demanding and responsive to their child. w. stage 24. Parents who impose rules and expect obedience. x. schema 25. Parents who submit to their children s wants. y. Self concept 26. Person s characteristic emotional reactions and passion. z. Self esteem 27. Principle that properties of objects like volume and mass stay the sensorimotor same even when the form of the object changes. aa. stage 28. Process by which certain animals including humans form attachments during very early in life. bb. Stranger anxiety 29. Stage during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts beginning in year 12. cc. Temperament 30. The inability for a child between 2 7 to see things from another individual s point of view. dd. teratogens 31. The stage of cognitive development from 6 or 7 11 when children are able to think logically about concrete events. ee. Theory of mind 32. Time right after birth when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development. ff. Zygote