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• Behavioral and Social Cognitive Theories
• Biological Processes
• Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory
• Case Study
• Cognitive Processes
• Cohort Effects
• Context
• Continuity-Discontinuity Issue
• Correlation Coefficient
• Correlational Research
• Cross-Cultural Studies
• Cross-Sectional Approach
• Culture
• Descriptive Research
• Development
• Eclectic Theoretical Orientation
• Erikson's Theory
• Ethnicity
• Ethology
• Experiment
• Gender
• Hypotheses
• Information-Processing Theory
• Laboratory
• Life-Span Perspective
• Longitudinal Approach
• Naturalistic Observation
• Nature-Nurture Issue
• Nonnormative Life Events
• Normative Age-Graded Influences
• Piaget's Theory
• Psychoanalytic Theories
• Social Cognitive Theory
• Social Policy
• Socioeconomic Status (SES)
• Socioemotional Processes
• Stability-Change Issue
• Standardized Test
• Theory
• Vygotsky's Theory

Chapter 2:  Focuses on our biological beginnings

• Adoption Study
• Apgar Scale
• Behavior Genetics
• Chromosomes
• DNA
  
• Down Syndrome
• Embryonic Period
• Epigenetic View
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
• Fetal Period
• Gene x Environment (GxE) Interaction
• Genes
• Genotype
• Germinal Period
• Meiosis
• Mitosis
• Natural Childbirth
• Neurons
• Organogenesis
• Phenotype
• Postpartum Period
• Prepared Childbirth
• Teratogen
• Twin Study

Chapter 3:  This chapter looks at physical and cognitive development in infancy

• A-not-B Error
• Accommodation
• Assimilation
• Attention
• Cephalocaudal Pattern
• Child-Directed Speech
• Concepts
• Core Knowledge Approach
• Deferred Imitation
• Dishabituation
• Dynamic Systems Theory
• Ecological View
• Equilibration
• Explicit Memory
• Fine Motor Skills
• Gross Motor Skills
• Habituation
• Implicit Memory
• Infinite Generativity
• Intermodal Perception
• Joint Attention
• Language
• Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
• Lateralization
• Memory
• Neuroconstuctivist View
• Object Permanence
• Organization
• Perception
• Proximodistal Pattern
• Schemes
• Sensation
• Sensorimotor Stage
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
• Telegraphic Speech
• Visual Preference Method

• Anger Cry
• Attachment
• Basic Cry
• Developmental Cascade Model
• Difficult Child
• Easy Child
• Emotion
• Goodness of Fit
• Insecure Avoidant Babies
• Insecure Disorganized Babies
• Insecure Resistant Babies
• Pain Cry
• Reciprocal Socialization
• Reflexive Smile
• Scaffolding
• Securely Attached Babies
• Separation Protest
• Slow-to-warm-up Child
• Social Referencing
• Social Smile
• Strange Situation
• Stranger Anxiety
• Temperament

• Animism
• Centration
• Child-centered Kindergarten
• Conservation
• Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)
• Egocentrism
• Executive Attention
• Executive Function
• Fast Mapping
• Intuitive Though Substage
• Montessori Approach
• Morphology
• Myelination
• Operations
• Phonology
• Pragmatics
• Preoperational Stage
• Project Head Start
• Semantics
• Short-term Memory
• Social Constructivist Approach
• Sustained Attention
• Symbolic Function Substage
• Syntax
• Theory of Mind
• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

• Authoritarian Parenting
• Authoritative Parenting
• Autonomous Morality
• Constructive Play
• Games
• Gender Identity
• Gender Roles
• Gender Schema Theory
• Heteronomous Morality
• Immanent Justice
• Indulgent Parenting
• Moral Development
• Neglectful Parenting
• Practice Play
• Pretense/Symbolic Play
• Psychoanalytic Theory of Gender
• Self-understanding
• Sensorimotor Play
• Social Cognitive Theory of Gender
• Social Play
• Social Role Theory 

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
• Convergent Thinking
• Critical Thinking
• Cultural-familial Intellectual Disability
• Culture-fair Tests
• Divergent Thinking
• Elaboration
• Fuzzy Trace Theory
• Gifted
• Inclusion
• Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
• Intellectual Disability
• Intelligence
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
• Learning Disability
• Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
• Long-term Memory
• Mental Age (MA)
• Metacognition
• Metalinguistic Awareness
• Neo-Piagetians
• Normal Distribution
• Organic Intellectual Disability
• Phonics Approach
• Seriation
• Stereotype Threat
• Strategies
• Thinking
• Transitivity
• Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
• Whole-language Approach
• Working Memory

•  Average Children
• Care Perspective
• Constructivist Approach
• Controversial Children
• Conventional Reasoning
• Direct Instruction Approach
• Domain theory of Moral Development
• Gender Stereotypes
• Justice Perspective
• Mindset
• Neglected Children
• Perspective Taking
• Popular Children
• Postconventional Reasoning
• Preconventional Reasoning
• Rejected Children
• Self-concept
• Self-efficacy
• Self-esteem
• Social Conventional Reasoning

• Adolescent Egocentrism
• Amygdala
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Corpus Callosum
• Gonads
• Hormones
• Hypothalamus
• Hypothetical-deductive Reasoning
• Imaginary Audience
• Limbic System
• Menarche
• Personal Fable
• Pituitary Gland
• Puberty
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
• Top-dog Phenomenon 

• Clique
• Commitment
• Cirsis
• Crowd
• Ethnic Identity
• Identity Achievement
• Identity Diffusion
• Identity Foreclosure
• Identity Moratorium
• Juvenile Delinquent
• Rite of Passage 

• Aerobic Exercise
• Emerging Adulthood
• Extrinsic Motivation
• Grit
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Postformal Thought
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

• Affectionate Love
• Anxious Attachment Style
• Avoidant Attachment Style
• Rapport Talk
• Report Talk
• Romantic Love
• Secure Attachment STyle
• Transgender 

• Climacteric
• Crystallized Intelligence
• Fluid Intelligence
• Leisure
• Menopause
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Middle Adulthood
• Working Memory 

• Big 5 Factors of Personality
• Contemporary Life-events Approach
• Cumulative Personality Model
• Empty Nest Syndrome
• Fight-or-Flight
• Generativity
• Stagnation
• Tend-and-Befriend 

• Alzheimer Disease
• Arthritis
• Cataracts
• Cellular Clock Theory
• Dementia
• Episodic Memory
• Evolutionary Theory of Aging
• Explicit Memory
• Free-radical Theory
• Glaucoma
• Hormonal Stress Theory
• Implicit Memory
• Life Expectancy
• Life Span
• Macular Degeneration
• Mitochondrial Theory
• mTOR Pathway
• Osteoporosis
• Parkinson Disease
• Semantic Memory
• Sirtuins
• Wisdom

•  Activity Theory
• Ageism
• Integrity vs. Despair
• Selective Optimization with Compensation Theory
• Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

•  Acceptance
• Active Euthanasia
• Anger
• Assisted Suicide
• Bargaining
• Brain Death
• Complicated Grief or Prolonged Grief Disorder
• Denial and Isolation
• Depression
• Dual-process Model
• Euthanasia
• Grief
• Hospice
• Palliative Care
• Passive Euthanasia