ChapTer 3 Development Over the Life Span 115developmental
psychologists 79
socialization 79
maturation 79
zygote 79
embryo 79
fetus 80
fetal alcohol syndrome 81
motor reflexes 81
contact comfort 82
separation anxiety 83
Strange Situation 83
secure, avoidant, and
anxious-ambivalent
attachment 83
language 85
Noam Chomsky 85
universal grammar 85
parentese 87
telegraphic
speech 89
Jean Piaget 89
assimilation 90
accommodation 90
object permanence 90
sensorimotor stage 90
preoperational
stage 90
mental operations 90
egocentric thinking 90conservation 90
concrete operations
stage 91
formal operations stage 91
theory of mind 92
power assertion 94
induction 95
delay of gratification 95
gender identity 96
gender typing 96
intersex
conditions 96
transgender 96
transsexual 97
gender schema 98adrenarche 101
puberty 101
menarche 101
secondary sex
characteristics 101
myelinization 102
Erik H. Erikson 104
identity crisis 104
emerging
adulthood 106
menopause 107
gerontologists 107
fluid intelligence 108
crystallized
intelligence 108Key Terms