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Developmental Psych
Ch 9-Social
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
10/25/2008

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psychic energy
Definition
the biologically based drives that are behind behavior and thought
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id
Definition
the most primitive personality structure and first to develop
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ego
Definition
the logical, problem-solving personality structure and the second to develop
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superego
Definition
the moral standard personality structure and the last to develop
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internalization
Definition
the process of adapting someone else's ideas and standards about one's self
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systematic desensitization
Definition
treatment of phobias through classical conditioning
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behavior modification
Definition
therapy based on operant conditioning with reinforcement contingencies
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reciprocal determinism
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the theory that a child and envrionment interact together on a mutual basis
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perceived self-efficacy
Definition
someone's beliefs about how efficently they can control their own behavior
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vicarious reinforcement
Definition
observing someone recieve a punishment/reward and altering behavior accordingly
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self-socialization
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the theory that children play an active role in their socalization
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role-taking
Definition
being aware of another person's perspective and being more fucking empathetic for a change
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hostile attribution bias
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the tendency to assume that everyone has hostile intentions
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mastery orientation
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general tendency to attribute failure and success to effort and persist in spite of failure
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helpless orientation
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general tendency to attribute failure and success to lack of talent and give up when failure occurs
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entity theory
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a theory that intelligence is unchangeable
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incremental theory
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a theory that intelligence is malleable and can grow as a function of experience
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ethology
Definition
the study of the evolutionary bases of behavior
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imprinting
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a form of learning that involves following and becoming attached to the mother figure
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microsystem
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the immediate environment that someone personally experiences
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mesosystem
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the connections between the micro and exosystems
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exosystems
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the environmental settings that that the person does not experience directly but is still affected
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macrosystem
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the larger socio cultural context
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chronosystem
Definition
the historical changes that influence the other systems
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