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| the continous study of one child for many years |
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| Reasons why more conscientious kids live longer? |
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| they smoke and drink less |
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| biological changes that occur in the body and brain including changes in size and strength, intergration of sensory and motor activities and developement of motor schools |
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| changes in the way we think, understand, and reason about the world |
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| Social-emoitional Developement: |
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| The way we connect to other individuals and understand emotions |
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| the influence of genetic inheritance on childrens developement |
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| the influence of learning and the enviroment on children's developement |
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| Changes in the overall nature of what you are doing |
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| Changes in the amount or quanity of what you are measuring |
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| Theories in which each stage in life is seen as qualitatively different from the others that come before and after |
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| Developemental Pschopathology |
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| an approach to solving mental and behavioral problems based on the ideas that biological, psychological, and social influences affect developement to produce adaptive or maladaptive outcomes |
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| different developemental pathways may result in the same out come |
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| the same pathways may lead to different outcomes |
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| a process in which people express their genetic tendencies by finding enviroments that match their tendencies |
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| the tendency to see something in the way you expected |
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| knowledge that is widely accepted but has not been scientifically tested |
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| aspects in life that increase the and well being of families |
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| The thoughts and feelings about which we are unaware |
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| anything that comes to mind in relation to a dream or another thought in the unconcious mind |
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| Pleasure principle; sex drive |
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| basic drives; reality princple |
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| Freud's concept of right and wrong |
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| Frueds thought that each stage of developement the sexual energy changes parts of the body |
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| 0-2months sexual drive directed to the mouth |
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| sexual energy is focused on the anus, potty training |
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| ages 3-6, boys ang girls focus is on their sexual organs |
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| the thought that when young boys have the desire to marry their mothers and kill their fathers |
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| the urge young girls have to murder their mother and marry their father |
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| the ages from 6-12 when the sex drive goes underground |
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| 12&up develop adult sexuality |
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| erkinsons stages that are based on a central conflict to be resolved invovling the social world and the developement of identity |
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| the theory that developed by John B. Watson that focuses on enviromental control of observable behavior |
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| The theory that individuals learn by observing others and imitating their behavior |
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| a social framework of places concepts objects and experiences |
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| Fitting new experiences into experiences into existing mental schemas |
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| piagets first stage in which infants learn through their senses and their actions upon the real world |
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| the true understanding that objects still exist when an infant does not see them |
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| piagets 2nd stage that 2-7 yr olds do not have logical thought instead thinking magically and egocentrically |
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| the inability to see things from someone elses perspective |
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| the 3rd stage in piagets when children 6-12 yrs of age develop logical thinking that is not abstract yet |
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| piagets 4th stage in which people 12 and older think both logically and abstract |
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| the idea that humans actively construct their understanding to the world rather than passively receiving knowledge |
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| zone of proximal developement |
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| what a child can not do on his or her own but can do with someone who has better skill or knowledge |
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| the idea that more knowledgable adults and children support a childs learning by providing help to move the child just beyond its current level of capability |
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| the capacity for information that comes in through our senses to be retained for a breif people of time in its raw form |
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| memory capacity that is limited to only a breif time but also allows the mind to process info in order to movie it to long term memory |
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| the capacity for nearly permanent retention of memories |
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| the idea that info is processed through a series of mental locations |
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| the study of aniam and human behavior in the natural enviroment |
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| a theory that proposes that social behavior is determind by genes that evolved to promote adaption |
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| the automatic process by which animals attach to their mothers |
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| in ecological theory the interaction of the person in her immediate settings, like home, school, or friendship groups |
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| the interaction among the various settings in the microsystem such as home and school |
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| settings that the child never enters but that affects the childs developement nevertheless such as the parents place of work |
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| cultural norms that guide the nature of the organizations and places that make up ones everyday life |
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| the simension of time including ones age and the time in history in which one lives |
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| esther thelen's theory that biological matuaration is not independent of the enviromental influences that surround the developing child |
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| the sudy of the interaction of the brain and behavior |
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| research that links behaviors with specific jeans |
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| has a goal of solving problems and improving human condition |
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| to define a concept in a way that allows it to be measured |
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| the ability of a measure to produce consistent results |
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| a measure that accurately measures what it purports to measure |
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| a measure of consistency in the data gathered by multiple others |
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| to draw inferences from the findings of reasearch on a specific sample about a larger group or population |
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| a set that inclues everyone in a category of individuals that we are interested studying |
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| a group of participants that have individual characteristics in the same distribution that exsist in population |
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| a data collection technique in which a researcher records info about all occurrences of a coherent set of behaviors being investigated |
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| when a researcher observes an individual for a period of time and records the occurance of specific behaviors during that time period |
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| the average performance of an individual of a given age on test |
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| data collected at an earlier date that are used for research purposes |
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| gets special treatment because they are of interest of the researcher |
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| a group that does not get special treatmeant and can be used as a baseline that the experimental group is compaired too |
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| assigning people to groups by chance so that the groups will no systematically differ from each other |
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| a characteristic that can be measured and that can have different values |
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| the variable in an experiment that the researcher manipulates |
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| the outcome of interest to the researcher that is measured at the end of an experiment |
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| research in which the members of the groups are selected because they represent different treatment conditions |
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| a measure of the strenght and direction of the relationship between two varibles |
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| changes in the make up of the sample in a longitudinal study that make the sample less representative over time |
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| the hypothesis tested by and experiment that there will be no difference in the outcome for the groups in an experiment |
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| a statsical procedure that combines data from different studies to determine whether there is a consistent pattern of findings across studies |
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| informing research participants of the risk and benefits of participating in the research and guaranteeing them the right to withdraw from participation if they wishes |
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