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A disorder to which a person binges on large quantities of food, followed by efforts to purge the food through vomiting or other means is known as anorexia nervosa.  

The body’s tendency to maintain a steady internal state is known as Homeostasis.  

Meaningless, speechlike sounds made by children from around the age of 3 months through 1 year is known as babble.  

Functional fixedness is the tendency to think of an object only in terms of the way it is most frequently or typically used.  

Mental images are representations in the mind of an object or event.  

Infants are born with particular temperaments – dispositions that are inconsistent throughout childhood.  

Divergent thinking is thinking in which a problem is viewed as having a single answer and which produces a solution that is based primarily on knowledge and logic.  

An environmental agent such as a drug, chemical, virus or other factor that produce a birth defect is known as a Teratogen.  

Gardner’s intelligence theory proposes that there are seven distinct spheres of intelligences.  

The process by which people examine and evaluate their lives is known as activity theory of aging.