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28 Cards in this Set
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Injury control |
practices aimed at anticipating, controlling and preventing dangerous activities (accidents are not random, injuries can be less harmful if proper practice is in place) |
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Perseveration |
tendency to stick to one thought or action for a long time |
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Preoperational intelligence |
2-6, language and imagination no logical thought yet |
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centration |
young child focuses on one idea, excluding all others (eg cant sort color and shape at same time) |
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scaffolding |
temp. support that is tailored to learner's needs and abilities |
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theory of mind |
person's theory of what other people are thinking |
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fast mapping |
speedy and sometimes imprecise way kids learn new words by tentatively placing them in mental categories according to their percieved meaning (may call a zebra a horse) |
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initiative vs guilt |
children undertake new skills and activities and feel guilty if they cannot do them properly |
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identification |
attempt to defend one's self concept by taking on behaviours and attitudes of someone else |
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gender schema |
child's cognitive or general belief about sex differences based on experience and observation |
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psychological control |
disciplinary technique that involves threatening to withdraw love and support and that relies on child's feelings of guilt and gratitude towards parents |
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induction |
when parents talk extensively with misbehaved child, helping them to understand why what they did was wrong |
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concrete operational thought |
ability to reason logically about direct experiences and perceptions |
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control processes |
mechanisms that combine memory, processing speed, and knowledge to regulate analysis and flow of info within info-processing system |
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pragmatics |
practical use of language including ability to change communitcation based on audience |
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aptitude |
potential to maser specific skill or learn certain body of knowledge |
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comorbid |
presence of 2 or more disease conditions in the same person at the same time |
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multifinality |
one cause can have many outcomes |
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equifinality |
one symptom can have many causes |
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industry vs inferiority |
child attempts to master many skills, developing sense of themselves are either industrious or inferior |
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estradiol |
sex hormone, chief estrogen |
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leptin |
hormone that effects appetite and believed o affect onset of puberty |
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formal operational thought |
more systematic logical thinking and ability to understand and systematically manipulate abstract concepts |
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entity approach to intelligence |
how smart someone is, is fixed at birth |
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incremental achievement |
belief that intelligence increases with effort |
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Identity vs role confusion |
person tries to figure out "who am I?" but is confused as there are many possibly roles to adopt |
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foreclosure |
premature identity formation, person adopts parent's or society's roles and values |
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moratorium |
adolescent's choice of socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement (uni or college) |
