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12/09/2016

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Operant conditioning
Definition
Behaviorist B.F. Skinner identified the term ________________ to describe the changing of behavior through the use of reinforcement which is used to encourage the desired response
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Attachment
Definition
Harry Harlow worked with monkeys and focused his research on what?
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Identity Diffusion
Definition
the status in which the adolescent does not have a sense of having choices; he or she has not yet made (nor is attempting/willing to make) a commitment
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Identity Foreclosure
Definition
the status in which the adolescent seems willing to commit to some relevant roles, values, or goals for the future. Adolescents in this stage have not experienced an identity crisis. They tend to conform to the expectations of others regarding their future (e. g. allowing a parent to determine a career direction) As such, these individuals have not explored a range of options.
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Identity Moratorium
Definition
the status in which the adolescent is currently in a crisis, exploring various commitments and is ready to make choices, but has not made a commitment to these choices yet.
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Identity Achievement
Definition
the status in which adolescent has gone through a identity crisis and has made a commitment to a sense of identity (i.e. certain role or value) that he or she has chosen
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Habituation
Definition
a type of learning in which the individual has a gradually reduced response to familiar or repeated stimuli
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Dishabituation
Definition
a type of learning in which the individual has an increased response to familiar and repeated stimuli
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Strange situation
Definition
Mary Ainsworth's _______ examined the role of attachment between mothers and their children
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Attachment
Definition
Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation examined the role of what between mothers and their children
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Strange situation
Definition
this laboratory-based study used 8 vignette scenarios to determine how children interacted with their mother alone and when a stranger was present
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Generativity
Definition
Erikson identified 4 types of _________: biological, parental, technical, and cultural.
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Play
Definition
Parten described 6 types of _______ in her 1932 research
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Authoritative
Definition
this type of parent sets limits and boundaries but has some flexibility with parenting
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Authoritarian
Definition
this type of parent sets many rules in a military-style environment
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Transitive inference
Definition
a form of seriation and involves the ability to place things in logical order mentally.
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Piaget
Definition
From careful observation of his own children (Jacqueline, Lucienne and Laurent) ________ (1952) concluded that thought developed through 6 sub stages during the sensorimotor period.
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Reflex acts
Definition
Piaget's first substage: Example, if you brush a baby’s mouth or cheek with your finger it will suck reflexively.
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Primary circular reactions
Definition
Piaget's second substage: The baby will repeat pleasurable actions centered on its own body.
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Secondary circular reactions
Definition
Piaget's third substage: babies repeat pleasurable actions that involve objects as well as actions involving their own bodies. An example of this is the infant who shakes the rattle for the pleasure of hearing the sound that it produces.
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Coordinating secondary schemes
Definition
Piaget's fourth substage: Instead of simply prolonging interesting events, babies now show signs of an ability to use their acquired knowledge to reach a goal.
For example the infant will not just shake the rattle, but will reach out and knock to one side an object that stands in the way of it getting hold of the rattle.
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Tertiary circular reactions
Definition
Piaget's fifth substage: intentional adaptations to specific situations. The infant who once explored an object by taking it apart now tries to put it back together. For example, it stacks the bricks it took out of its wooden truck back again or it puts back the nesting cups – one inside the other.
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Symbolic thought
Definition
Piaget's sixth substage: This is transitional to the pre operational stage of cognitive development. Babies can now form mental representations of objects.This means that they have developed the ability to visualise things that are not physically present. This is crucial to the acquisition of object permanence – the most fundamental achievement of the whole sensorimotor stage of development.
Term
8 months
Definition
Children around _______ have object permanence because they are able to form a mental representation of the object in their minds.
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Intentional
Definition
pushing the buttons on the remote door opener to hear the horn is a tertiary circular reaction because why?
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Schemas
Definition
building blocks of knowledge according to Piaget
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Assimilation
Definition
using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation
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Accommodation
Definition
This happens when the existing schema (knowledge) does not work, and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation.
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Assimilation
Definition
Example of what?: A 2 year old child sees a man who is bald on top of his head and has long frizzy hair on the sides. To his father’s horror, the toddler shouts “Clown, clown”
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Sensorimotor
Definition
Object permanence is developed during what stage of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
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Pre-operational
Definition
During this stage of Piaget's stages of cognitive development, young children are able to think about things symbolically. This is the ability to make one thing - a word or an object - stand for something other than itself. Thinking is still egocentric, and the infant has difficulty taking the viewpoint of others.
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Concrete operational
Definition
Piaget considered the ______ stage a major turning point in the child's cognitive development, because it marks the beginning of logical or operational thought. This means the child can work things out internally in their head (rather than physically try things out in the real world).
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Concrete operational
Definition
During this stage of Piaget's stages of cognitive development, children can conserve number (age 6), mass (age 7), and weight (age 9). Conservation is the understanding that something stays the same in quantity even though its appearance changes
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Formal operational
Definition
During this time, people develop the ability to think about abstract concepts, and logically test hypotheses.
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The personal fable
Definition
an adolescent belief that they are new and unique and that no other human has ever felt as they are feeling
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Egocentricism
Definition
an adolescent's inability to distinguish their own thoughts and thinking from that of others
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Imaginary Audience
Definition
the belief that others are paying attention to the adolescent's appearance and behavior
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Rooting reflex
Definition
a primative reflec designed to assist an infant in locating nourishment. when presented with a stimuli on the face or cheek, an infant will reflexively turn it's hear so that the source of the stimuli is in its mouth
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higher
Definition
Hispanics have a (higher or lower) life expectancy, as a group, than their ethnic counterparts
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Selective
Definition
Laura Carstensen's Socioemotional Selectivity Theory states that as adults age, they become more __________ with time, friends, activites, etc.
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Bargaining
Definition
the attempts of a dying person to barter with a higher power for more time is a classic example of Kubler-Ross' third stage, _________.
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Bargaining
Definition
it is in this stage that a person often tries to make a deal in order to reach either a particular event, like a child's graduation or wedding
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Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance
Definition
correct order of Kubler-Ross' Stages of Dying
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Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance
Definition
the acronym for Kubler-Ross' Stages of Dying is DABDA and stands for.
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Social facilitation
Definition
the enhancement or improvement of performance by the presence of others
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Social disruption
Definition
the worsening of performance in the presence of others
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Autoplasty
Definition
the concept that the individual should change themselves in order to promote adjusting or "fitting in" with the host environment
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Alloplasty
Definition
the process of the environment changing to promote adjusting to those who are culturally different
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Environment
Definition
Alloplasty: the process of the _________ changing to promote adjusting
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Individual
Definition
Autoplasty: the process of the ________ changing to promote adjusting
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Conformity
Definition
in the first stage of the Minority Identity Development Model, the client experiences a self-depreciations and struggles with negative self-image and feelings of shame.
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Micro-invalidations
Definition
communications that exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential realities of a person of color
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Racial micro-aggressions
Definition
brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color
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Exploitation
Definition
form of oppression where the dominant group takes economical advantage of a minority for their skills and expertise
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Marginalization
Definition
form of oppression where a group is denied access to resources that would allow them to exist equitably among other groups or cultures
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