Human Development

3. object permanence, stranger anxiety
6. thinking logically about concrete events and grasping concrete analogies; milestones: mathematicians transformations, conservation
10. harmful substances that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
12. term babies are referred to at the end of 2 months
14. thinking about hypothetical scenarios and processing abstract thoughts
16. specialized in moral development
17. the five stages of _______ include denial, anger and resentment, bargaining, depression, acceptance; proposed by kubler-ross
18. representing things w words and images; milestones: egocentrism, pretend play, language development

1. place where the cell’s attach after about 10 days
2. experiencing the world through senses and actions;
4. type of psychologist that studies physical, mental (cognitive), and social changes occurring throughout the life cycle
5. believed that children build mental concepts or schemas, which are mental categories
7. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering
8. the brain’s capacity for modification and reorganization following damage
9. believed adults progress through adulthood with periods of stability, punctuated by times of upheaval and change
11. syndrome that occurs as a result of teratogens, causes physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman’s heavy drinking; leading cause of mental retardation
13. proposed a theory that babies attach to their mothers because they are usually the ones that provide nourishment
15. biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in the behavior and is relatively uninfluenced by experience