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| High control, little warmth |
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| Fair amount of control, warm and responsive |
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| Warm and caring, Little control |
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| Baumrind's basic parenting styles |
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| Authoritative, Authoritarian, permissive |
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| Measures how much has been learned in a specific subject area. (ex: WASL) |
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| Measures potential (Ex: IQ tests) |
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| Mental age/chronilogical age. 100 is average. 70-85 considered slow learners. over 130 considered gifted. |
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| Concrete Operational Thought |
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| Children 2-6 begin to understand logic/how to reason logically, but only if applied to concrete/specific areas. |
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| Hypothetical-Deductive thought |
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Deductive Reasoning: Abstract to specific
Inductive Reasoning: Specific to broad. |
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| Formal Operational Thought |
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| Deals with abstractions, test hypotheses, see infinite possibilities. |
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| A person's theory of what other people might be thinking. In order to have a theory of mind, children must realize that other people are not necessarily thinking the same thoughts that they are. Seldom possible before age 4. |
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| Feeling and acting in ways that are helpful and kind, without obvious benefit to oneself. |
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| Feeling and acting in ways that are deliberately hurtful or destructive to another person. |
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| A balance, within a person, of traditionally male and female psychological characteristics. |
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| Autonomy versus Shame and doubt |
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| Erikson's second crisis of psychosocial development. Toddlers either succeed or fail in gaining a sense of self rule over their own actions and bodies. |
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| How a person evaluates his or her own worth, either in specifics (intelligence, attractiveness) or overall. |
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| A person's understanding of who he or she is. Self-concept includes appearance, personality, and various traits. |
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| Goals or drives that come from inside a person, such as the need to feel smart or competent. |
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| The need for rewards from outside, such as material possessions or someone else's esteem. |
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| Hurtful behavior that is intended to get or keep something that another person has. |
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| Hurtful behavior that is intended to get or keep something that another person has. |
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| An impulsive retaliation for another person's intentional or accidental actions, verbal or physical. |
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| Unprovoked, repeated physical or verbal attack, especially on victims who are unlikely to defend themselves. |
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| In an adult, having a BMI of 30 or more. In a child, being above the 95th percentile, based on the U.S. centers for disease control's 1980 standards for his or her age and sex. |
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| Unusual difficulty with reading; thought to be the result of some neurological underdevelopment. |
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| A condition in which a person not only had great difficulty concentrating for more than a few moments but also is inattentive, impulsive, and overactive. |
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| Unusual difficulty with math. |
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| "Thinking about thinking" or the ability to evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and adjust one's performance on that task. |
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| The tendency to assess one's abilities, achievements, social status, and other attributes by measuring them against those of other people, especially one's peers. |
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| the ability to understand social interactions, including the causes and consequences of human behavior. |
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| Industry versus Inferiority |
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| The fourth of Erikson's eight psychosocial development crises, during which children attempt to master many skills, developing a sense of themselves as either industrious or inferior, competent or incompetent. |
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| The time between the first onrush of hormones an full adult physical development. Puberty usually lasts three to five years. many more years are required to achieve psychosocial maturity. |
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| A girl's first menstrual period, signaling that she has begun ovulation. Pregnancy is biologically possible, but ovulation and menstruation are often irregular for years after menarche. |
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| A boy's first ejaculation of sperm. Erections can occur as early as infancy, but ejaculation signals sperm production. Spermarche occurs during sleep or via direct stimulation. |
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| A sex hormone, the best known of the androgen s (male hormones); secret4ed in far greater amounts by males than by females. |
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| A sex hormone, considered the chief estrogen. Females produce more than males do. |
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| The relatively sudden and rapid physical growth that occurs during puberty. Each body part increases in size on a schedule: weight usually precedes height, and the limbs precede the torso. |
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| Primary Sex Characteristics |
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| The parts of the body that are directly involved in reproduction, including the vagina, uterus, ovaries, testicles, and penis, |
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| Secondary sex characteristics |
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| Physical traits that are not directly involved in reproduction but that indicate sexual maturity, such as a man's beard and a woman's breasts. |
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| A characteristic of adolescent thinking that leads young people (ages 10-13) to focus on themselves to the exclusion of others. A young person might believe, for example, that his or her thoughts, feeling, and experiences are unique, more wonderful or awful than any one else s. |
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| An adolescent's egocentric conviction that he or she cannot be overcome or even harmed by anything that might defeat a normal mortal, such as unprotected sex, drug abuse, or high speed driving. |
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| The other people who in an adolescent's egocentric belief, are watching, an taking note of, his or her appearance, ideas, and behavior. This belief makes many teenagers very self conscious. |
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| A consistent definition of one's self as a unique individual, in terms of roles, attitudes, beliefs, and aspirations. |
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| Identity versus role confusion |
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| Erikson's term for the fifth stage of development, in which the person tries to figure out "who am i?" but is confused as to which of many possible roles to adopt. |
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| Erikson's term for the attainment of identity, or the point at which a person understands who he or she is as a unique individual, in accord with past experiences and future plans. |
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| A situation in which an adolescent does not seem to know or care what his or her identity is. |
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| Erikson's term for premature identity formation, which occurs when an adolescent adopts parents; or society' roles and values wholesale, without questioning and analysis. |
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| A way for adolescents to postpone making identity achievement choices by finding an accepted way to avoid identity achievement. Going to college is the most common example. |
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| Encouragement to conform with ones friends or contemporaries in behavior, dress, and attitude; usually considered a negative force, as when adolescent peers encourage one another to defy adult authority. |
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| A marked delay in a particular area of learning that is not caused by an apparent physical disability, by mental retardation, or by an unusually stressful home environment. |
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| The ability to concentrate on some stimuli while ignoring others. |
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| A person's idea of how his or her body looks. |
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| The idea that each new generation forgets what the previous generation learned about harmful drugs. |
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