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Process of parent and child jointly planning and regulating the child's behavior |
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A mode of parenting that involves reduced monitoring and guidance, often used when parents are under stress |
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Process of negotiating temrs of marital separation, child custody, and visitation rights with a trained mediator |
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The tendency of boys to want to play exclusively with ohter boys and girls to want to play with ohter girls; this peaks during middle childhood |
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Thorne and Maccoby's theory that gender segregation is sufficiently complete during middle childhood that it is as though boys and girls live in two different cultures |
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Quantitative methods for assessing the qualities of different children's peer status within a defined group, such as a classroom |
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A status in which children receive many positive nominations (for liking) and few negative nominations (for disliking) from members of a peer group |
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Sociometrically controversial |
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A status in which children receive many positive nominations (for liking) and many negative nominations (for disliking) from members of a peer group |
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A status in which children receive few positive nominations (for liking) and many negative nominations (for disliking) from members of a peer group |
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Sociometrically neglected |
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A status in which children receive few positive nominations (for liking) and few negative nominations (for disliking) from members of a peer group; often true of children who are new to a school |
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A status in which children receive typical numbers of positive and negative nominations from members of a peer group |
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A child with the characteristics of both bully and victim; most are at serious risk for social and emotional problems |
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A syndrom in which children feel anxious, experience physical symptoms, and refuse to attend shcool, usually in response to a stressful event such as the death of a parent |
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Hostile attribution biases |
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Ways of understanding other people's behavior that interpret even neutral behavior as hostile |
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