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12 Cards in this Set
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Preconventional Reasoning |
According to Kohlberg, the first and second stages of moral reasoning,which are focused on getting rewards and avoiding punishments
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Conventional Reasoning |
According to Kohlberg, the third and fourth stages of moral reasoning, which are focused on social relationships, conventions,and duties.
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Post-conventional Reasoning |
According to Kohlberg, the fifth and sixth stages of moral reasoning, which are focused on ideals and broad moral principles.
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Conscience |
the desire to act in a moral manner, and a feeling of guilt when one does notact morally
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Puberty |
The period of physical andsexual maturation in which the child’sbody begins to develop into its adultform.
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Primary Sexual Characteristics |
Bodily structures directly related toreproduction
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Secondary Sexual Characteristics |
Bodily structures that change withsexual maturity but are not directlyrelated to reproduction.
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Formal Operational Period |
InPiaget’s theory, the period from aboutage twelve on, in which a child canthink abstractly and consider hypotheticalpossibilities.
--able to think of the possible as well as the real |
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Identity Versus Role Confusion |
According to Erikson, the major developmentaltask of adolescence is developinga stable ego identity, or sense ofwho one is. Failure results in developinga negative identity or in roleconfusion.
--Major new crisis that arises in adolescence and lasts into early adulthood. |
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Fluid Intelligence |
refers to a person's ability to deal with new and unusual problems |
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Crystallized Intelligence |
refers to a person's accumulated knowledge (vocabulary, facts, strategies) |
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Alzheimer's Disease |
A degenerativebrain disorder characterized by memoryloss followed by increasingdisorientation and culminating in physicaland mental helplessness.
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