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Module 47-49AP Psych
Module 47-49 AP Psych Unit 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| enriched environment and brain development | helps brain development |
| Impoverished environment and brain development | slows brain development |
| Overbearing | unpleasantly or arrogantly domineering |
| Uninvolved | not connected or concerned with someone or something, especially on an emotional level |
| Pushy | excessively or unpleasantly self-assertive or ambitious |
| Indecisive | not settling an issue |
| Overprotective | tending to protect someone, especially a child, excessively |
| Distant | far away in space or time |
| Childhood actions | kids will repeat what they hear, and act how they observe |
| Adolescence actions | Follow those who they surround themselves with (friends) |
| Adolescence | The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence |
| Puberty | The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing |
| The teenage brain | Until puberty brain cells increase their connections, until adolescence when selective pruning comes for unused neurons and connections |
| Frontal lobe maturation and the limbic system | Frontal lobe lags that of emotional maturation of the limbic system |
| Supreme Court and the Death Penalty | “less guilty by reason of adolescence” |
| Formal operations | They apply their new abstract reasoning tools to the world around them |
| Moral development | builds on their cognitive development |
| Pre-conventional morality | (before age 9) self-interest, obey rule to avoid punishment or gain concrete rewards |
| Conventional morality | (early adolescence) uphold laws and rules to gain social approval or maintain social order |
| Post conventional morality | (adolescence and beyond) actions reflect belief in basic rights and self-defined ethical principles |
| Identity | our sense of self |
| Social identity | the “we” aspect of our self-respect |
| Identity vs Role Confusion | Teenagers work at refining a sense of self by testing roles and then integrating them to form a single identity, or they become confused about who they are |
| Intimacy | the ability to form emotionally close relationships |
| Positive parent-teen relations | teens who have positive relations with their parents often tend to be healthy, happy and do well in school |
| Emerging adulthood | a period from about 18 to the mid 20s when many western cultures are no longer adolescents but have not yet achieved full independence as adults |
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