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| Conception of individualism in which individuality is considered in terms of rational self-determination, associated with utilitarianism and laissez-faire economics. |
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| Descriptive record of early child development based upon parental observations |
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| The ability of children to explain and predict their own and others' behavior in terms of mental states such as beliefs, desires, and emotions |
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| For Floyd Allport, an experimental group in which subjects are primarily engaged with some common stimulus. |
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| communitarian individualism |
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| conception of individualism in which individuality is considered in terms of relations to social community. |
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| crisis in social psychology |
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| Period in the 1970s during which social psychology was subjected to a variety of metatheoretical, methodological, and moral critiques. |
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| Theories of the irrational and emotional behavior of members of crowds (based upon suggestibility and imitation) developed by Le Bon and Tarde at the turn of the century. |
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| Arnold Gesell's measure of development modeled upon Terman's intelligence quotient and based upon longitudinal studies of motor, linguistic, adaptive, and personal-social behavior. |
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| face-to-face (interacting) group |
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| Experimental group in which subjects interact with one another. |
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| According to Floyd Allport, the misguided attempt to explain social phenomena in terms of the group as a whole, rather than in terms of the individuals who compose it. |
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| Government program aimed at enriching the educational and social experience of economically disadvantaged children during the critical early years of development. |
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| Theory that social groups are supra-individual entities with emergent properties, not reducible to the properties of the individual persons that compose them. |
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| Interactions between experimenters and subjects that introduce contaminating or confounding variables. |
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| Study of psychology and behavior that is the product of reasons or causes operating independently of social orientation. |
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| interpersonal psychological states and behavior |
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| Psychological states and behavior directed toward other persons |
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| Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund |
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| Major source of funding for institutes of developmental research at American universities. |
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| Term employed by Emory Bogardus to characterize attitudes associated with membership of particular professions or trades. |
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| Term introduced by Gabriel Tarde to describe physically dispersed populations of individuals |
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| Surveys of the common attitudes or opinions of physically dispersed aggregations of individuals, independently of their social orientation or affiliation. |
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| Term introduced by Hebert Hyman to reference the different social groups to which an individual's attitudes and behavior may be oriented. |
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| Cognitive states and processes directed toward other persons and social groups. |
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| A theory of learning and development based upon imitation and cognitive modeling |
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| the orientation of human psychology and behavior to the represented psychology and behavior of members of social groups. |
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| As originally conceived, the study of the socially oriented forms of human psychology and behavior. |
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| Postmodern conception of theory adoption as a matter of social rhetoric and negotiation rather than a product of empirical evaluation. |
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| Term employed by James to characterize those aspects of self that are associated with membership of social groups |
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| A theory of development that postulates different stages of development. |
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