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show The "father" of psychology. Psychology born in 1879.  
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show First prominent system for organizing psychological beliefs.  
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Gestalt Psychology   show
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William James   show
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show The way consciousness helps people adapt to their environment.  
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Sigmund Freud   show
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show Focused on abnormal behavior and relied on personal observation.  
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Ivan Pavlov   show
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Abraham Maslow   show
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Cognitive Perspective   show
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Biological Perspective   show
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Social-Cultural Perspective   show
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show Believe we learn certain responses through rewards, punishments and observations.  
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Humanistic Perspective   show
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show Consider how our helping behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.  
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show Observations may be influenced by what you discover. Bias occurs when any factor unfairly increases the likelihood that the researcher will come to a perticular conclusion.  
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Critical Thinking   show
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Participant Bias   show
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Naturalistic Observation   show
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Correlational Study   show
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Positively Correlated   show
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show One variable increases while other decreases  
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show A research technique that studies the same group of individuals over a long period of time.  
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Cross Sectional Studies   show
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Operational Definitions   show
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Independant Variable   show
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Dependent Variable   show
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show The participants in an experiment who are exposed to the treatment, that is, the independent variable.  
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show The participants in an experiment who are not exposed to the independent variable.  
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Random Assignment   show
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Confounding Variables   show
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Double-Blind Procedure   show
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show A nonactive substance or condition.  
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Data Analysis   show
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Replication   show
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show Before birth. Starts at conception and ends at birth.  
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show Fertilized egg; it enters a two-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo.  
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show The biochemical units of heredity that direct how our cells become specialized for various functions during prenatal development.  
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show The developing human organism from about two weeks after fertilization through the end of the eighth week.  
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Fetus   show
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Teratogens   show
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome   show
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Rooting Reflex   show
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Temperament   show
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show Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.  
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show Pioneer in the study of developmental psychology who introduced a stage theory of cognitive development that led to a better understanding of children's thought processes.  
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show All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering.  
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Schemas   show
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show Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas.  
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Accommodation   show
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Sensorimotor Stage   show
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show The awareness that things continue to exist even when tou cannot see or hear them.  
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Preoperational Stage   show
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Conservation   show
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show The inability to take another's point of view  
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Concrete Operational Stage   show
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show Stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts and form strategies.  
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show The fear of strangers that infants comonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age.  
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show An emotional tie with another person; young children demonstrate attachment by seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on seperation.  
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Imprinting   show
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show A style of parenting marked by making demands on the child, being responsive setting and enforcing rules, and discussing the reasons behind the rules.  
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Permissive Parenting   show
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Authoritative Parenting   show
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Continuity and Stages   show
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Stability and Change   show
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show Heredity and environment shapes a child's development.  
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show The transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence.  
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Puberty   show
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show The body structures that make sexual reproduction possible.  
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show Non-reproductive sexual characteristics.  
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Sexual orientation   show
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show A sequence of increasingly sophisticated cognitive abilities.  
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Formal Operational Stage   show
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Morality   show
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Lawrence Kohlberg   show
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show Most primitive level; avoid punishment or gain reward. Most under 9.  
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Conventional Moral Reasoning   show
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Post conventional Moral Reasoning   show
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show Created an eight-stage theory of social development.  
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Stages of Psychosocial Development   show
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Continuity and Stages   show
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Stability and Change   show
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show -Nature:spark feelings and interests -Nurture: learn to express  
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Social Clock   show
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show When adolescents go into true adulthood  
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show The time of natural cessation of menstruation  
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show A progressive and irreversible brain disorger characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language and physical functioning.  
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Senile Dementia   show
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Memory   show
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Recall   show
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show See something and remember what is is  
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Fluid Intelligence   show
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Crystallized Intelligence   show
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show Family and work-related events-bring major lifestyle alterations.  
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Erik Erikson   show
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Generatively   show
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Sigmund Freud   show
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Love   show
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Emptying of the Nest   show
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Dying and Death   show
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show Recieve comforting medical attention, but avoid death-defying interventions.  
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