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Assimilation
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interpreting new experiences
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Accommodation
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adapting current understandings to incorporate new info
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secure attachment
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when mother is around, explores. mother leaves, cries. mother comes back, back to normal
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insecure attachment
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doesn't explore when mom is around, doesn't care when mother leaves and returns
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authoritarian parenting
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parents impose rules and expect obedience and use because I said so as reasoning
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permissive parenting
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submit to child's desires
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authoritative parenting
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parents are both demanding and responsive, explain reasoning, encourage open discussion
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fluid intelligence
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our ability to reason speedily and abstractly (decreases slowly up to age 75)
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crystallized intelligence
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accumulated knowledge as reflected in vocabulary and analogy tests (increases up to old age)
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maturation
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biological growth preocesses that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
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schema
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a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
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conservation
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the principle that properties such as mass, volume and number remain the same despite the changes of objects
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critical period
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an optimal period shortly after birth when organisms exposure to certain stimulus or experiences produce proper development
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deviance, distressful, dysfunctional
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3 characteristics of personality disorders
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dopamine
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what increased receptor is associated with schizophrenia
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obsession
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repetitive thoughts
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compulsion
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repetitive behaviors
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depression
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when the 5 signs of depression last longer than two weeks
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schizophrenia
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split personality from reality and shows disorganized thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
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bipolar disorder
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a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
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anxiety disorder
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psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
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phobia
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an anxiety disorder that marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation
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panic disorder
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an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations
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OCD
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anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions
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PTSD
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an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdraws, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for 4 weeks or more after traumatic experience
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antisocial personality disorder
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personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even towards friends and family members
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1. negative stressful events
2. pessimistic explanatory style 3. hopeless, depressed state 4. these hamper the way the individual thinks and acts, fueling depressing |
social-cognitive perspective
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pre conventional morality
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before age 9, most children's morality focuses on self interest; obey rules to avoid punishment or gain reward
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conventional morality
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by early adolescence, morality focuses on caring for others and upholding laws and social rules because they are rules
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post conventional morality
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with the abstract reasoning of formal operational thought, people may reach 3rd moral level
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