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12 Cards in this Set
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Secular trend
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A statistical tendency observed over several generations
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Problem focused coping
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Attempt to manage a stressful situation by directly changing itto make it less stressful (A student asking for an extended deadline)
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Emotion focused coping
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The conscious regulation of emotion (A person having trouble with a boss might make it positive by being thankful they have a job)
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Defnsive Coping
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Unconscious use of strategies that distort or deny the seriousness of a threat (undermining a threatening illness, telling yourself failure on a test is unimportant)
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Formal operational stage
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The stage at which people develop the ability to think abstactly (pendulum experiemnt)
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Propositional Thought
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reasoning that uses abstract logic in the absence of concrete examples (If certain premises are true a conclusion must be true)
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Hypothetico-deductive reasoning
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Starting with a general theory about what produces an outcome and then deduing explantions for specific situations (Like a scientist testing hypotheses)
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Inductive reasoning
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Going from specific observations to broad generalizations
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Conjuction
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Both A and B make a difference
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Disjunction
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it's ethier this or that
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Implication
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If it's this, then that will happen
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Incompatibility
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When this happens, that doesn't
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