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| Children should be raised with thought and care, not indifference and harsh treatment. |
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Focused on care, treatment, and training of "mental defectives".
Treated "the wild boy of Aveyron". |
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| Various outcomes stem from similar beginnings. |
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| Similar outcomes stem from different beginnings. |
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Strength of the child.
Strength of the family.
Strength of the school/community. |
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| Resilience in boys is associated with? |
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Male role model,
Structure and rules,
Encouragement of emotional expressiveness |
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| Resilience in girls is associated with? |
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| Households that combine risk taking and independence with support from female caregiver. |
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| Language of science to facilitate assembling and communicating knowledge effectively. |
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| Causes of childhood disorders; coniders how biological, psychological, environmental processes interact to produce outcomes over time. |
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| Abnormal development is multiply determined. Childen and environments are interdependent. Both contribute to expression of a disorder and can't be separated from one another. |
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| Developmental changes are gradual and quantitative; predictive of future patterns. |
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| Developmental changes are abrupt and qualitative; not predictive of future behavior patterns. |
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Normal achievements: eating, sleeping, attachment
Common behavior probs: stubborn, temper, toileting
Common disorders: mental retardation, feeding disorders, autism |
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Normal achievements: language, toileting, self care skills, self control, peer relationships
Common behavior probs: arguing, demanding attention, disobedience, fears, overactivity, resisting bedtime.
Clinical disorders: speech and language disorders, probs stemming from abuse/neglect, some anxiety disorders. |
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Normal achievements: academic skills and rules, rule governed games, simple responsibilities.
Common behavior problems: arguing, inability to concentrate, self consiousness, showing off
Clinical disorders: ADHD, learning disorders, school refusal, conduct problems. |
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Normal achievements: relations with opposite sex, personal identity, separation from family, increased responsibilities.
Common behavior problems: arguing, bragging.
Clinical disorders: anorexia, bulimia, deliquency, suicide attempts, drug/alcohol abuse, schizophrenia, depression. |
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| Investigate possible connections between genetic predisposition and observed behavior. |
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Breathing, heartbeat, digestion.
Consists of medulla, pons, and cerebellum which control motor coordination. |
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Coordinates movement with sensor input.
Contains reticular activating sys (RAS)-arousal and tension. |
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| Thalamus and hypothalamus regulate behavior and emotion. |
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Lymbic sys- emotional experiences and expression.
Learning and impulse control
Basic drives of sex, hunger and thirst
Cerebral cortex: left (verbal and other cognitive processes) and right (social perception and creativity) hemispheres. |
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Integrate auditory, visual, and tactile signals.
Immature until age 16. |
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Self control, judgement, emotional regualtion.
Reconstructed in teen years. |
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Intelligence, consiosness, self awareness.
Reached full maturity in 20s. |
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Emotional maturity.
Still developing after age 16. |
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Adrenal- adrenalin, stress.
Thyroid- energy, metabolism, growth.
Pituitary- estrogen, testosterone. |
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Individual differences in threshold and intensity of emotional experience.
Provides clues to individual's level of distress and sensitivity to environment. |
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| Enhancing, maintaining, or inhibiting emotional arousal. |
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| Weak/absent control structures, difficulty concentrating. |
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| Problems in dysregulation |
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| Existing control structures operate maladaptively, may be adaptive in some situations and not in others, feels fear when there is no reason to. |
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Attachment personalities:
Secure |
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-Readily separates from caregiver, likes to explore, seeks contact w/ caregiver when wary of stranger, returns to play after contact.
-Tend to seeks out and make effective use of supportive relationships.
-Less likely to have disordered outcome, relationship strategy serves as a protective function. |
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Attachment personalities:
Insecure- anxious avoident type |
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-Engages in exploration but little affective interaction w/ caregiver, little wariness of strangers, generally upset if left alone, as stress increases avoidence increases.
-Tend to mask emotional expression, often believe they're invulnerable to hurt and others are not to be trusted.
-Conduct disorders, aggressive behavior, depressive symptoms (usually result of failure/self reliant image. |
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Attachment personalities:
Insecure- anxious, resistant type |
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-Disinterest/resistance to exploration and play, wary of new situations/strangers, difficulty settling when reuinted w/ caregiver, may mix active contact w/ crying and fussiness.
-Tend to have difficulties managing anxiety, exaggerate emotions, maintain negative beliefs about self.
-Phobias, anxiety, psychosomatic symptoms, depression. |
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Attachment personalities:
Disorganized disoriented type |
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-Lacks coherent strategy of attachment, appears disorganized when faced with new situations, no consistant pattern of regualting emotions.
-Tend to have inability to form close attachments to others, may show an indescriminate friendliness (little selective attachment).
-Wide range of personality disorders. |
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Behavior therapy:
Positive reinforcement |
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| Increase frequency of behavior due to an addition of a stimulus immediately following a response. |
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Behavior therapy:
Negative reinforcement |
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| Increase frequency of behavior when the consequence is the removal of an aversive stimulus. |
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Behavior therapy:
Extinction |
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| Lowering the probability of a response when a reinforcing stimulus is no longer presented. |
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Behavior therapy:
Punishment |
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-Positive- punishes a response by presenting an aversive stimuli.
-Negative- a valued stimulus is removed.
-Both intended to decrease behavior. |
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| Understanding/predicting behavior of a particular family member can't be done in isolation from other members. |
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