their caregivers.
             33. attentional processes: processes that determine which information will be processed further by an individual.
             34. authoritarian parents: parents who show high levels of control and low levels of warmth toward their children.
             35. authoritative parents: parents who use a moderate amount of control and who are warm and responsive to their children.
             36. autosomes: first 22 pairs of chromosomes.
             37. average life expectancy: age at which half of the people born in a particular year will have died.
             38. avoidant attachment: relationship in which infants turn away from their mothers when they are reunited following a brief separation.
             39. axon: tube-like structure that emerges from the cell body and transmits information to other neurons.
             40. babbling: speech-like sounds that consist vowel-consonant combinations.
             41. basal metabolic rate: speed with which the body consumes calories.
             42. basic cry: cry that starts softly and gradually becomes more intense often heard when babies ar
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