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19 Cards in this Set
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Adjustment
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the psychological process of adapting to, coping with, and managing the challenges of everyday life
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Contexts
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The historical, economic, social, and cultural factors and settings that influence us.
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ecological theory
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Bronfenbrenner's theory that people's lives are influenced by five environmental systems: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
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the developer of ecological theory
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culture
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refersto the behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a group of people that are passed on from generation to generation
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Triandis
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Harry C. Triandis, professor who researched collectivism/individualism.
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collectivism/individualism
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Triandis
collectivism - worldview in which social behavior is guided largely by the shared goals of a family, tribe, work group, or collective individualism - worldview in which social behavior is guided largely by personal goals, ambitions and pleasures |
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individualistic culture
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The united states is an example of an individualistic culture
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cross-cultural studies
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Involve a comparison of a culture with one or more other cultures
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ethnicity
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Is rooted in cultural heritage, nationality characteristics, race, religion, and language.
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gender
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Involves the psychological and sociocultural dimensions of being female or male
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subjective well-being
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The scientific term for how people evaluate their lives in terms of their happiness and life satisfaction.
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scientific method
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a fir-step process of conceptualizing a problem, collecting research information (data), analyzing data, and drawing conclusions.
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theory
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a broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempt to explain certain observations.
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hypothesis
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a prediction that can be tested
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experiment
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a carefully regulated procedure in which one or more factors believed to influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while all other factors are held constant.
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independent variable
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the manipulated, influential, experimental factor in an experiment
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dependent variable
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the factor that can change in an experiment in response to changes int he independent variable.
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correlational research
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research in which the goal is to describe the strength of the relationship between two or more events or characteristics.
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