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35 Cards in this Set
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Attachment
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The emotional tie to a parent experienced by an infant, from which the child feels security.
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Attachment Theory
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The view that the ability and need to form an attachment relationship early in life are genetic characterists of all human beings.
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Subjective self
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An infants awareness that they are a separate person.
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Secure attachment
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A pattern of attachment when an infant readily separates from the parent.
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Theory of the mind
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A set of ideas constructed by a person to explain other people's ideas, beliefs, desires, and behavior.
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Aggression
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Behavior intended to harm another person or object.
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Gender identity
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The ability to correctly label oneself and others as male or female.
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Permissive parenting style
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A style of parenting that is high in nurturance and low in maturity demands, control, and communication.
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Achievement test
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A test designed to asses specific information learned in school.
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Adolescense
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The transitional period between childhood and adolescence.
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Anorexia nervosa
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An eating disorder involving self-starvation.
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Avoidant attachment
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A pattern of attachment when an infant avoids contact w/t parent and shows no preference for the parent over other people.
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Disorganized attachment
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A pattern of attachment when an infant seems confused or apprehensive. Moves twd the mother w/o looking at her.
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Ambivalent attachment
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A pattern of attachment when an infant is very upset when the mom leaves him with a babysitter.
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Intelligence quotient (IQ)
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A number intended to indicate a person's intellegence, based on a test.
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Overregularization
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When 3 to 4 yr olds create past tenses such as "wented" or plurals such as "teeths".
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Emotional Regulation
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The ability to control emotional states and emotion-related behavior.
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Gender Schema Theory
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An info-processing approach to gender concept dvplmnt that asserts that people use a schema for ea. gender to process info about themselves and others.
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Social-cognitive Theory
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Social and personality dvlpmnt in early childhood are related to improvements in the cognitive domain.
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Learning Disability
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A disorder when a child has difficulty mastering a specific academic skill, even though they have normal intelligence and no physical or sensory handicaps.
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ADHD
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A mental disorder that causes children to have difficulty attending to and completing tasks.
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Primary Sexual Characteristics
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The sex organs; ovaries, uterus, vagina (female); testes and penis (male).
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Secondary Sexual Characteristics
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The breast in females and pubic hair in both sexes.
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Personality
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A pattern of responding to people and objects in the environment.
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Temperment
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Inborn predispositions, such as activity level, that form the foundations of personality.
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Centration
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The young child's tendency to think of the world in terms of one variable at a time.
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Hippocampus
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A struction in the brain that is important in learning.
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Metacognition
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Knowledge about how the mind thinks and the ability to control and reflect on your own thought processes.
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Empathy
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The ability to identify with another person's emotional state.
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Social Skills
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A set of behaviors that usually lead to being accepted as a play partner or friend by peers.
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Obesity
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Body wt. that is 20% or more above the normal wt. for ht. Body mass index higher than that of most children of the same age.
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Dyslexia
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Problems in reading or the inability to read.
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Menarche
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The beginning of the mentral cycle.
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Bulima
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An eating disorder involving bing eating and pruging.
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Ability Goals
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Goals based on a desire to be superior to others.
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