Unit IX- developments (Mods 45, 46, 47)

Biological growth processes enables orderly changes in behavior, uninfluenced by experience.

This appears in childhood. They have deficiencies in communication & social interaction.

Chemicals & viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development & cause harm

Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information

Decreasing responsiveness with repeated exposure to a stimulus.

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

Famous developmental psychologist who was known for studying cognitive development.

Piaget's stage when people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.

Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

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.

The stage of cog. dev. when children gain mental operations that enable them to think logically

In Piaget’s theory, a child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view.

Piaget's stage where infants know the world in terms of their sensory impressions.

Ideas about their own & others mental states- about feelings & behaviors these might predict.

1. A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.

Properties such as mass, volume, & number remain the same despite changes in forms of objects.