Humans generally have a total of 46, 23 from each parent.

Growth that occurs from the middle to the outside

Tiny cells that store and transmit information; the human brain has 100-200 billion.

Piaget believed children use actions or mental representations that organize ways of making sense of experience.

Around age 2, children have identification of the self as a physically unique being.

Lifespan perspective on human development assumes that development is this.

Organogensis takes place during what prenatal development period?

This area of the brain is responsible for registering location, attention and motor control

Children use their current schemes to interpret the external world use a process know as:

jealousy, empathy, pride, shame, guilt, etc.

This results when sperm and ovum unite at conception.

Any environmental agent that causes damage during prenatal development.

Children often grasp objects with their thumb and forefinger

This is where we briefly retain and "work" on information so we can reach our goals.

This refers to early-appearing, stable individual differences to reactivity and self regulation

A complex blend of genetic information that determines and influences unique characteristics

The point at which the baby can first survive if born early

Neurons that are seldom stimulated soon lose their synapses, in a process called

In this sensorimotor substage a child might repeat interesting events that are caused by their own actions.

These infants usually are not distressed by the parent’s departure; they respond to the
stranger in much the same way as to the parent and are unresponsive to the parent during reunion.

the one allele that does affect the child’s characteristics

These infants are born several weeks before their due date and their weight may be appropriate for the amount of time spent in the uterus

The ability to judge the distance of objects from one another and from ourselves.

In order to enhance a child's acquisition of language a caregiver might repeat what the child has said but using correct structure.

The capacity to voluntarily suppress a response in order to plan and execute a more adaptive response.