| Definition | Term | First Letters |
| pattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throught the course of life | |
| an organism's biological inheritance | |
| An organism's environmenal experiences | |
| test of perception that involves giving an infant a choice of what object to look at and that is used to determine whether infants can distinguish between objects | |
| decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations. Habituation is used in infant research to examine if an infant can discriminate between an old stimulus and a n | |
| concept or framework that already exists at a given moment in a person's mind and that organizes information and provides a structure for interpreting it | |
| an individual's incorporation of new information into existing knowlege | |
| an indiviual's adjustment of a schema to new information | |
| the first Piagetian stage of cognitive development (birth to about 2 years of age), in which infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences (su | |
| the second Piagetian stage of cognitive development (appoximately 2 to 7 years of age), in which thought becomes more symbolic than in the sensorimotor stage but the child cannot y | |
| the third Piagetian stage of cognitive development (appoximately 7 to 11 years of age), in which thought becomes operational and intuitive reasoning is replaced by logical reasonin | |
| the fourth and final Piagetian stage of cognitive development (emerging from about 11 to 15 years of age), in which thinking becomes more abstract, idealistic, and logical | |
| the close emotional bond between an infant and its caregiver | |
| an important aspect of socioemotional development in which infants use the caregiver, usually the mother, as a secure base from which to explore the enivronment | |
| an individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding | |