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What term describes the time and energy parents expend for their offspring's benefit, especially in humans who take the most time to develop?

What is the term for the brain's capacity to be affected by experience?

What term refers to the period during which a developing organism is most sensitive to the effects of external factors?

What does the acronym WEIRD stand for in the context of cultural psychology?

What are sections of chromosomes that are the basic unit of heredity in all living things, with unique sets for everybody?

What term describes the notion that there is always a favorite in a given context?

What term describes the perception that someone always thinks they are the favorite?

What philosophical debate contrasts Plato's belief in innate knowledge with Aristotle's belief in acquired knowledge?

Who believed in the concept of 'tabula rasa' and advocated for instilling discipline and reason in children?

Who believed that children learn from their interactions with the world and that formal instruction should begin after age 12?

What movement led to the prohibition of employing children under 10 due to the consequences of child labor?

Who published a biography after observing his son, representing one of the first methods for studying child development?

Which social worker was instrumental in lobbying for the establishment of the juvenile court system?

Who was the social worker that worked to improve child welfare legislation and founded her own children's home?

What debate questions whether genes or environmental factors contribute more to a person's being?

What theory suggests that children contribute to their own development by choosing what to engage with?

What are the two perspectives on age-related changes, one suggesting gradual change and the other suggesting discrete stages?

What are the mechanisms of change in development that include neural, genetic, behavior, and microbiome factors?

What context supports child development and wellbeing through culturally specific relational ontologies?

What research design compares different age groups at several times over time, combining cross-sectional and longitudinal methods?

What is the process called when a sperm fertilizes an egg and forms a zygote?

What is a fertilized egg that has 23 chromosomes from each parent and has not yet undergone cell division?

What term describes the developing human organism from about 3-8 weeks, with the inner cell mass becoming the embryo?

What term describes the stage of development from 9 weeks to birth?

What is the process of cell division resulting in two identical cells, occurring every 12 hours after conception?

What is the movement of newly formed cells away from their point of origin called?

What process involves a cell becoming specialized for a specific structure or function, such as a blood cell or bone cell?

What term describes the first three months after childbirth, during which the newborn is highly dependent on humans for survival?

What are environmental agents that damage the process of development, such as drugs and viruses, called?

What organ develops in the uterus during pregnancy to provide oxygen and nutrients and remove waste products?

What is the term for the belated emergence of effects of prenatal experiences that program physiological set points for adulthood?

What are some risk factors for prenatal development?

What can fetuses learn in the womb?

What is the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA called?

What is the process by which mRNA is decoded and a protein is produced?

What is the addition of a methyl group that may stop transcription from occurring called?

What is the difference between an organism's genotype and phenotype?

What term refers to the effects of environmental forces on the expression of an individual's genetic inheritance?

What are the heritability pathways that describe the relationship between genotype, phenotype, and environment?

What science is concerned with how variation in behavior and development results from genetic and environmental factors?

What term describes traits affected by both environmental and genetic factors?

What are some quantitative genetics research designs?

What research design examines specific DNA sequences to identify mechanisms linking genes and behavior?

What genetic patterns are caused by dominant or recessive alleles, such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease?

What is the inheritance of a genetic trait located on the sex chromosomes called?

What occurs when multiple genes determine the phenotype of a trait?

What are intermediate phenotypes, including the brain and nervous systems, that do not involve overt behavior?

What is the metabolic center of the neuron, including the nucleus, called?

What part of the neuron receives messages from other cells and conducts them towards the cell body?

What part of the neuron conducts electrical impulses away from the cell body to connections with other neurons?

What brain lobe is responsible for higher-order functioning such as decision making and inhibitory control?

What brain lobe is involved in spatial processing and integration across sensory modalities?

What brain lobe is primarily responsible for visual processing?

What brain lobe is involved in speech, language, emotion processing, and hearing?

What is a nerve cell, the basic building block of the nervous system, called?

What is the concept that sensory input from one side of the body goes to the opposite hemisphere of the brain?

What is the dense tract of nerve fibers that enables the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate?

What is the specialization of the hemispheres of the brain for different modes of processing called?

What part of the cortex is most acute at birth, allowing babies to 'eavesdrop' during the fetal period?

What is the fatty sheath that forms around certain axons in the body to increase the speed and efficiency of information transmission?

What part of the neuron gives messages to muscle tissue?

What process involves glia ensheathing neurons in fat to increase speed?

What is the birth of new neurons from undifferentiated stem cells called?

What is the extraordinary growth of axonal and dendritic fibers resulting in an abundance of neuronal connections called?

Why would synaptogenesis occur primarily in response to memory and learning as a person ages?

What is the process whereby synaptic connections in the brain that are used are preserved, and those that are not used are lost?

What are processes of brain development that anticipate experiences universal in all normally developing members of our species?

What are brain functions that depend on particular, variable experiences and may or may not develop in a person?

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