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OSU Psych 100 Textbook p. 493-510 (Last lecture before midterm one)

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stress   the tension, discomfort, or physical symptoms that arise when a situation strains our ability to cope  
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primary appraisal   initial decision regarding whether an event is harmful  
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secondary appraisal   perceptions regarding our ability to cope with an event (done after primary appraisal)  
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problem-focuses-coping   coping strategy by which we tackle life's challenges head on  
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emotion focused coping   coping strategy ffeaturing a positive outlook on feelings or situations accompanied by behaviors that reduce painful emotions  
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corticosteroids   stress hormones that activate the body and prepare us to respond to stresful circumstances  
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SRSS Scale   scale used to determine stess levels with corresponding life events and ratings.  
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hassles and stress   hassles of everday life also contribute to stress, above and beyond the events mentioned by SRSS and whatnot  
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general adaptation syndrome   stress-response patter proposed Hans Seyle that consists of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion  
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nature via nurture   tendency of individuals with certain genetic predispositions to seek out and creat environments that permit the expression of those predispostions  
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gene expression   activation or deactivation of genes by environmental experiences throughout development  
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blastocyst   ball of identical cells early in pregnancy that haven't begun to take on any specific function in a body part  
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embryo   second to eight week of prenatal development, during which the limbs, facial features, and major organs take form  
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fetus   period of prenatal devleopment from ninth week until birth, after all major organs are established and physical maturation is the primary change  
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teratogens   environmental factors that can exert a negative impact on prenatal development  
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motor behaviors   bodily motions that occur as a result of self initiated force that moves the bones and muscles  
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cognative development   study of how children learn, think, reason, communicate, and remember  
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constructivist theory   piaget's theory that childreen construct an understanding of their world based on understanding of observations of the effects of their behaviors  
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assimilation   piagetian process of absorbing new experience intop current knowledge structures  
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accomodation   piagetian process of altering a belief to make it more compatable with experience  
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sensorimotor stage   stage in piaget's theory characterized by a focus on the here and now without the ability to represent experiences mentally  
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object permenence   the understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of view  
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preoperational stage   stage in piaget's theory characterized by the ability to construct mental representations of experience, but not yet perform operations on them  
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egocentrism   inability to see the world from others' perspectives  
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conservation   piagetian task requiring children to understand that despite a transformation in the physical presentation of an amount, the amount remains the same  
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concrete operations stage   stage in piaget's theory characterized by the ability ti perform mental operations on physical events only  
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formal operations stage   stage in piaget's theory characterized by the ability ti perform hypothetical reasoning beyond the here and now  
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theory of mind   abiltiy to reason about what other people know of believe  
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stranger anxiety   a fear of strangers developing at 8 or 9 mos. of age  
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attachment   the strong emotional connection we feel with those to whom we feel closest  
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imprinting   phonomneon observed in which baby birds begin to follow around and attach themselves to any large moving object they see in the hours after hatching  
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contact comfort   positive emotions afforded by touch  
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mono-operation bias   drawing conclusions on the basis of only a single measure  
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temperment   basic emptional style that appears early in development AND is largeley genetic in origin  
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gender identiy   individual's sense of being male or female  
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gender roles   behaviors that tend to be associated with being male or female  
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adolescence   the transition between childhood and adulthood commonly associated with the teenage years  
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language   largely arbitrary system of communication that combines sysmbols (such as words or gestural signs) in rule based ways to create meaning  
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phonemes   categories of sounds our vocal apparatus produces  
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morphemes   smallest meaningful units of speech  
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syntax   grammatical rules that govern how words are composed into meaningful strings  
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extralinguistic information   elements of communication that arent part of the language but are critical to interpreting its meaning  
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dialects   language variations used by groups of people who share geographic proximitiy or ethnic background  
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phonesthemes   similar sounding words with related meanings (ie: glisten, glow, gleam, glass, glare)  
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bilinugal   proficient and fluent at speaking and comprehending two different languages  
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babbling   intentional vocalization that laughs specific meaning  
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holophrases   single word phrases used early in language development to convey an entire thought  
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generative   allowing an infinite number of unique sentences to be created by combining words in novel ways  
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nativist   account of language acquisition that suggests children are born knowning how language works  
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language acquisition device   hypothetical organ in the brain which nativists believe knowledge of syntax resides  
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social pragmatics   account of language acquisition that proposes children infer what words and sentences mean from context and social interactions  
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