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Chapters 5, 6,7,8

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Erickson's 8 psychological stages   Infancy (birth- 1yr) Basic trust vs. mistrust Toddlerhood(1-2) Autonomy vs. shame Early childhood (3-6) Initiative vs.guilt Middle childhood ( 7-12) Industry vs. inferiority Adolescence adulthood (20-40) Identity vs. role confusion Early adulthood (2  
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Gross motor skills   physical abilities that involve large muscle movements such as running/jumping  
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fine motor skills   physical abilities that ivolve small coordinated movements such as drawing and writing ones names  
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Piaget's preoperational stage   when children lack the ability to step back from their immediate perceptions  
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Piaget's concrete stage   when children are able to step back from their immediate perceptions and reason in a logical adult like way  
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Piaget's stage   Sensorimotor- physical Preoperations- children's perceptions are captured by their immediate appearances Concrete operations- children have a realistic understanding of the world Formal operations- reasoning is at its pinnacle  
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Conservation tasks-   Piaget's tasks that involve changing the shape of substances to see whether children can see beyond the way that a substance visually appears to see that its amount remains the same  
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Reversibility   concrete operational child's is knowledgeable that a specific change in the way a given substance looks can be reversed  
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Centering   the pre operational child's tendency to fixate on the most visually striking feature of a substance and not take into account dimensions  
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Decentering   the concrete operational child's ability to look into the several dimensions of an object of substance  
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Class inclusion   the understanding that a general category can encompass several subordinate elements  
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Identity constancy   the preoperational child's ability to grasp that a person's core self stays the same despite changes in external appearance  
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Psychologist Les Vygotsky   - theorized that the gap between a child's ability to solve a problem totally on their own and their own potential knowledge is taught by a more accomplished adult  
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Scaffolding   the process of teaching new skills by entering a child's zone of proximal development and tailoring one's efforts to that person's competence level  
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Vygotsky's theory   the way in which humans learn to regulate their behavior is through silently repeating information of talking to themselves  
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Theory of mind   knowledge that other people have different perspectives from our own  
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Working memory   keeps information in awareness we either process information or discard it  
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Executive processor   allows us to focus on important material to prepare for Germany storage  
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Executive functions   any frontal lobe ability that allows intellectual planning and thinking  
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Autobiographical memory   recollection of events and experiences that make up one's life  
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Executive functions   abilities that allow us to plan and direct our thinking to relevant info  
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Selective attention   a learning strategy in which we manage our awareness so as to attend only to what is relevant to filter out unneeded information  
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Externalizing tendencies   involves acting on our immediate impulses and behaving disruptively  
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Internalizing tendencies   a personality style that involves intense fear, low self steem  
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Induction   involving getting children who have behaved hurtfully to emphasize with the pain they cause in other people  
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Proactive agression   -hostile or destructive acts carried out to achieve a goal  
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Reactive agression   - hostile acts carried out in response to be frustrated / hurt  
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Relational agression   - destructive acts designed to harm other relationships  
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Hostile attributional bias   when children tend to misread other people's actions as threatening when they're not  
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Jacob Moreno   gave children a class list and asked " who would you really like to come to your party ?"  
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Dr. Dan Owleus   research professor from Norway often considered the " pioneer" in bullying research  
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Parenting style   Diana Baumrind's  
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Authoritative parents   - provides ample love and family rules  
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Authoritarian parents   - provide many rules but rank low on love  
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Permissive parents   - few rules but lots of love  
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Rejecting/ neglecting parents   little discipline or love  
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Acculturation   - among immigrants the tendency to become similar to the mainstream culture after time spent living in a new society  
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Collective efficacy   - Communities defend by strong cohesion, a commitment to neighbors neighbor helping  
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WISC   - Wechsler intelligence scale for children  
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Flynn effect-   remarkable rise in 19 tests scores around the world that occurred over the 20th century  
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Robert Sternburg's types of intelligence ( Triachic theory)   Analytic, creative, practical, successful,  
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Howard Gardener's   verbal, mathematical, intrapersonal, interpersonal. spatial, musical, kinestetic, and naturalist  
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Alfred binet-   assessed mental age, test of general mental ability  
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Ruth Griffiths-   infant IQ test  
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Nancy Baylay   - IQ test used for preschool age  
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David Wechler   - Most widely used, modeled after Binet's  
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Charles Spearman   - responsible for performance IQ tests  
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Louis Thurstone   - Intelligence is cluster of abilities  
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Menarche   - a girls first menustration  
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Adrenal androgens   - hormones produced by the adrenal glands that program puberty  
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Hpg axis   - The main hormonal system that programs in puberty  
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Gonads   - The sex organs ovaries in a girl and testes in boys  
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Primary sexual characteristics   - Physical changes that involve reproductive organs such as growth of penis and menstruation  
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Secondary sexual characteristics   - physical changes during puberty not directly involved in reproduction  
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Susan Carter's research   5 domains that relate to overall self esteem 1. feelings of competence 2. behavioral conduct 3. athletic skills 4. likability 5. and appearance  
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