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HDT - #1
Feldman's "Development Across the Life Span" Glossary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract Modeling | the process in which modeling paves the way for the development of more general rules and principles (Ch.8) |
| Acceleration | special programs that allow gifted students to move ahead at their own pace, even if this means skipping to high grade levels (Ch.9) |
| Accommodation | changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events (Ch.5) |
| Achieving Stage | the point reached by young adults in which intelligence is applied to specific situations involving the attainment of long-term goals regarding careers, family, and societal contributions (Ch.13) |
| Activity Theory | the theory suggesting that successful again occurs when people maintain the interests, activities, and social interactions with which they were involved during the middle age (Ch.18) |
| Addictive Drugs | drugs that produce a biological or psychological dependence in users, leading to increasingly powerful cravings for them (Ch.11) |
| Adolescence | the developmental stage between childhood and adulthood (Ch.11) |
| Adolescent Egocentrism | a state of self-abosption in which the world is viewed from one's own point of view (Ch.11) |
| Adult Day-Care Facilities | a facility in which elderly individuals receive care only during the day, but spend nights and weekends in their own home (Ch.18) |
| Affordances | the actions possibilities that a given situation or stimulus provides (Ch.4) |
| Age of Viability | the point at which an infant can survive a premature birth (Ch.3) |
| Age Stratification Theories | the view that an unequal distribution of economic resources, power, and privilege exists among people at different stages of the life course (Ch.18) |
| Age-Graded Influences | biological and environmental influences that are similar for individuals in a particular age group, regardless of when or where they are raised (Ch.1) |
| Ageism | prejudice and discrimination directed at older people (Ch.17) |
| Agentic Professions | occupations that are associated with getting things accomplished (Ch.14) |
| Aggression | intentional injury or harm to another person (Ch.8) |
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