PSY 201: Development Through the Lifespan Questions and Answers 2025/2026 Updated.

developmental psychology - Answer a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive and social change zygote - Answer the fertilized egg; it enters a 2-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo embryo - Answer the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month fetus - Answer the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth teratogens - Answer ( literally, "monster maker") agents such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) - Answer physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking. In severe cases symptoms include facial disproportions. habituation - Answer decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner maturation - Answer biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience cognation - Answer all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communication schema - Answer a concept framework that organizes and interprets information assimilation - Answer interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas accommodation - Answer adapting our current understandings(schemas) to incorporate new information