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- the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.
- research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period.
- the theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.
- the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence.
- a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
- the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
- an umbrella term describing people whose gender identity or expression differs from that associated with their birth sex.
- an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 488)
- the process by which certain animals form strong attachments during an early life critical period.
- the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division
- a set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave.
- according to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers.
- adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information.
- all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
- in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view.
- people's ideas about their own and others' mental states—about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict.
- the socially constructed roles and characteristics by which a culture defines male and female.
- in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
- the acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role; own perceptions of gender roles
- the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.