Developmental Psych Chapter 6

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Subjective reactions experience that are associated with physiological and behavioral changes

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emotions

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emotions, such as embarrassment, empathy, and envy, that depend on self-awareness

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self-conscious emotions

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realization that one's existence and functioning are separate from those of other people and things

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self-awareness

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emotions such as pride, shame, and guilt that depend on both self-awareness and knowledge of socially accepted standards of behavior

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self-evaulative emotions

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ability to put oneself in another person's place and feel what the other person feels

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empathy

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ability to understand that other people have mental states and to gauge their feelings and intentions

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social cognition

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Piaget's term for inability to consider another person's point of view; a characteristic of young children's thought

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egocentrism

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characteristic disposition or style of approaching and reacting to situations

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temperament

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children with a generally happy termperament, regular biological rhythms and a readiness to accept new experiences

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"easy" children

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children with irritable temperament, irregular biological rhythems, and intense emotional responses

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"difficult" children

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appropriateness of environmental demands and constraints to a child's temperament

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goodness of fit

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significance of being a male or female

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gender

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socialization process by which children, at an early age, learn appropriate gender roles

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gender typing

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Erikson's first crisis in psychosocial development, in which infants develop a sense of the reliability of people and objects

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basic trust versus basi mistrust

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laboratory technique used to study infant attachment

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Stange situation

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pattern in which an infant cries or protests when the primary caregiver leaves and actively seeks out the caregiver upon his or her return

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secure attachment

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Pattern in which an infant rarely cries when separated from the primary caregiver and avoids contact upon his or her return

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avoidant attachment

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Pattern in which an infant becomes anxious before the primary caregiver leaves, is extremely upset during his or her absence and both seeks and resists contact on his or her return

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ambivalent (resistant) attachment

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Pattern in which an infant, after separation from the primary caregiver, shows contradictory behaviors upon his or her return

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disorganized-disoriented attachment

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wariness of strange people and places, shown by some infants during the second half of the first year

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stranger anxiety

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Distress shown by someone typically an infant when a familiar caregiver leaves

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separation anxiety

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Process by which infant and caregiver communicate emotional states to each other and respond appropriately

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mututal regulation

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research procedure used to measure mutual regulation in infants 2 to 9 months old

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"still-face" paradigm

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understanding an ambiguous situation by seeking out another person's perception of it

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social referencing

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sense of self; descriptive and evaluative mental picture of one's abilities and traits

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self-concept

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sense of one's own capability to master challenges and achieve goals

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self-efficacy

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Erikson's second stage in psychosocial development in which children achieve a balance between self-determination and control by others

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autonomy versus shame and doubt

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Development of habits, skills, values, and motives shared by responsible, productive members of a society

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socialization

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during socialization process by which children accept societal standards of conduct as their own

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internalization

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a person's independent control of behavior to conform to understood social expectations

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self-regulation

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internal standards of behavior, which usually control one's conduct and produce emotional discomfort when violated

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conscience

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kochanska's term for wholehearted obedience of a parent's orders without reminders or lapses

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committed compliance

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Kochanska's term for obedience of a parent's orders only in the presence of signs of ongoing parental control

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situational compliance

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action taken deliberately to endanger another person, involving potential bodily injury

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physical abuse

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failure to meet a dependent's basic needs

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neglect

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physically or psychologically harmful sexual activity, or any sexual activity involving a child and an older person

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sexual abuse

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action or inaction that may cause behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorders

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emotional maltreatment