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Chapter 10
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Psychology
11th Grade
11/11/2010

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Sensormitor
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0-2 views the world through the senses.
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Preoperational
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2-6 Represents things with words and images but lacks reasoning
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Concrete operational
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7-11.....Start thinking logically about concrete events and things
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Formal operational
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12-^.....abstract thinking
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Object permanance
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Even though you dont see something you still know that it exist
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Egocentrism
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The ability to not see others point of view
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Pre conventional
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rewards and punishments. 0-9
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Post convetional
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- develop your own rules and moral compass. 14 ->
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Problem with the theory.....
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The gender isssue
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Attachment
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Attachment- an emotional tie that forms in between people
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Mary Ainsworth.
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- does a lot of studies on attachment and found out that infants prefer being held instead of being left alone and by the age of four months the infant is attached to the mother. Around 8 months infants start to develop the fear of strangers
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Stanger anxiety
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- the idea of when strangers come they get nervous. 
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Seperation anxiety
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Seperation anxiety- when there not with their attachment they get upset
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Imprinting-
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The process when animals form imeadiate attachments during the critical stages.
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Girls will grow faster then boys .
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Girls will grow faster then boys until the age of 13 by adulthood boys are about 4 to 5 inches taller then girls.
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Neglect-
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failure to provide adequate care.
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The average babies length
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is 20 inches long.
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By the end of their first year they will
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increase their size 50% in the first year.
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By the end of the third year the average person
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is half as tall as they will be when they are adults.
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Between two and adolescene you
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grow two to three inches a year and gain about 4 to 6 pounds.
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Between two and adolescene .
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you grow two to three inches a year and gain about 4 to 6 pounds.
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Psycholigist believe that the early stages of your life are more crucial then the late stages. Because of this they call
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it the critical period.
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If you learn a language between
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0-6 you are more likely to retain it.
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After you turn 12 years old then it becomes
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harder to learn a language.
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Heritability
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- extent to which variations amoung individuals or between individuals is due to their differing genes.
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IdenticaL
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l- one egg and a 60% chance of getting alzheimers
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Fraternal-
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twins is two eggs and have a 30% chance of getting alzheimers
Identical twins that have been seperated from birth will develop the same personality type.
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