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Chapters 10-13 vocab
PSY 203
60
Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/12/2007

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moral relativism stage

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2nd of Piaget's stages of moral development. Children understand rules can be changed.
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Social Status
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and individual child's classification as popular, regected, or neglected

 

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Relational Agression
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aimed at damaging anothers self esteem or peer relations. Eg: Ostracism, gossip
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industry v. inferiority stage
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4th of Erikson's psycosocial stages during which children develop a sense of their own competance through mastry of culturally definded learning tasks
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conscience
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list of "dont's" in the superego violation leads to guild
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ego ideal
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list of "do's" in the super ego. failure to live up to it leads to shame
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moral realism stage
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1st of Piaget's stage of development in which children believe rules are inflexible
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The Big Five
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5 major dimensions of personality.
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- concientiousness
- neuroticism
- openness/intellect
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Psycological Self
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understanding of one's stable, internal traits
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Self Regulation
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children's ability to confirm parental standards w/o direct supervision
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self esteem
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evolution of one's own worth
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Ability Goals
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based on goals to be superior to others
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anorexia nervosa
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self starvation
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menarche
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beginning of menstural cycle
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secular trend
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occurs in developing nations when nutrition and health improves. Eg: decline in avg age of menarche
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formal operational stage
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4th of Piaget's stages during which adolescents learn to reason logically about abstract comcepts
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systematic problem
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process of finding a solution to a problem by testing single factor
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bulemia
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binging and purging
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Hypothetical Deductive Reasoning
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ability to derive conclusions from hypothetical premises
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task goals
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goals based on desire for self-improvment
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latency stage
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4th of Freud's psycosexual stages 6-12yr olds libdo is dormant while they establish relationships w/ same sex peers
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secondary sex characteristics
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breasts in females and pubic hair in both
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self care children
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at home by themselves after school an hour or more each day
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endocrine glands
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secrete hormones governing growth and other aspects of physical development
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pituitary gland
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triggers other glands to release hormones
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gonadotropic hormones
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responsible for developing sex hormones
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primary sex characteristics
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sex organs, ovaries, uteruses, adn vagina in female; testes and penis in male
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identity achievement
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in Marcia's theory, the identity status achieved by a person who ahs been through a crisis and reached a commitment to ideological or occupational goals.
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retaliatory agression
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revenge
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identity achievement
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in Marcia's theory, the identity status achieved by a person who has been through a crisis and reached a commitment to idealogical or occupational guide
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genital stage
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psycosexual maturity is reached
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identity
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understanding of one's unique characteristics and how they have been, are, and will be manifested across ages.
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moratorium
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in Marcia's theory, the identity status of a person who is in a crisis but who has made no commitment
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foreclosure
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in Marcia's theory, the identity status of a peron who has made a commitment whiouth having gone through a crisis; the person has simply accepted a parentally or culturally definde commitment
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identity diffusion
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in Marcia's theory, the identity status of a person who is not in the midst of a crisis and who has made no commitment
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sex-role identity
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the gender-related aspects of the psycological self
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ethical identity
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a sense of belonging to an ethnic group
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locus of control
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a set of beliefs about the causes of events
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clique
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4-6 young people who appear to be strongly attached to one another
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crowd
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a combination of cliques, which includes both males and females
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preconventional morality
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in Kohlberg's theory, the level of moral reasoning in which judgements are based on authorities outside of the self
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conventional morality
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in Kohlberg's theories, the level of moral reasoning in which judgements are based on rules or norms of a group to which the person belongs
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postconventional morality
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in Kohlberg's theory, the level of moral reasoning in which judgements are based on an integration of individual rights and the needs of society
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role-taking
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the ability to look at a situation from another person's perspective
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deliquency
Definition
antisocial behavior that includes law-breaking
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primary aging
Definition
age-related physical changes that have a biological basis and are universally shared and inevitable
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secondary aging
Definition
age-related changes that are due to environmental influences, poor-health habits or disease
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limbic system
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the part of the brain that regulates emotional responses
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maximum oxygen uptake (VO2)
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a measure of the body's ability to take in and transport oxygen to various body organs
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self efficiency
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the belief in one's capacity to cause and intended event to occur or to perform a task
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intimate partner abuse
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physical acts or other behavior intended to intimidate or harm an intimate partner
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sexual violence
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the use of physical concern to force a person to engage in a sexual act against his or her will
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phobia
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an irrational fear of an object, person, place, or a situation
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personality disorder
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an inflexible pattern of behavior that leads to difficulty in social educational and occupational functioning
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schizophrenia
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a seriousl mental disorder characterized by disturbances of thoughts such as dilusion and hallucination
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chrystalized intelligence
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knowlege and intelligence acquired thorugh education and experience
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fluid intelligence
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the aspect of intelligence that reflects fundamental biological processes and then does not depend on specific experience
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post-secondary education
Definition
any kind of formal educational experiene that follows high school
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traditional post-secondary student
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student who attends college full time immediately after high school
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nontraditional post-secondary student
Definition
a student who either attends college part-time or delays enrollment after high school
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