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A set of linguistic processing skills that nativists believe to be innate |
Language Acquisition Device |
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The extent to which the child's temperament and the demands of the child's social environment are compatible or mesh, a good match between person and environment |
Goodness of fit |
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What are the influences on self-esteem? |
social attractiveness positive social feedback ethnic identity |
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Theory that emphasizes unconscious motivations for behavior, conflicts within the personality, and stages of psychosexual development |
Psychoanalytic Theory |
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Psychometric Approach |
Trait Theory |
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What are the Big 5 dimensions of personality? |
neuroticism extraversion openness to experience agreeableness conscientiousness |
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the aspect of self concept that includes images of the selves that you hope, fear, or expect to become in the future |
possible selves |
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the process by which children become aware of their gender and acquire the motives, vales, and behaviors considered appropriate for members of their biological sex |
gender typing |
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theory of gender role development that focuses on how biological events influence the development of boys and girls |
Biosocial Theory |
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theory that says gender-role development depends on stagelike changes in cognitive development |
Cognitive Developmental Theory |
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The understanding that people have mental states that guide their behavior |
theory of mind |
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vicarious experiencing of another person's feelings |
empathy |
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positive social acts, such as helping or sharing, that reflect concern for others |
prosocial behavior |
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the thinking process involved in deciding whether an act is right or wrong |
moral reasoning |
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several areas of the brain that are activated both when we perform an action and when we observe someone else perform the same action |
mirror neurons |
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a persistent pattern of violating the rights of others or social norms |
Conduct disorder |
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the aspects of language centering on meanings |
semantics |
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rules for how language is used in different social contexts |
pragmatics |
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a system of common rules and properties for learning any of the world's languages |
universal grammar |
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What distinguishes us from all other species? |
speech and language |
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the organized combination of attributes, motives, values, and behaviors that is unique to each individual |
personality |
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relatively enduring dimensions of personality along which people differ |
dispositional traits |
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a genetically based pattern of tendencies to respond in predictable ways |
temperament |
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the tendency to be extremely shy, restrained and distressed in response to unfamiliar people and situations |
behavioral inhibition |
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Influences on identity formation |
cognitive growth personality relationship with parents opportunities to explore cultural context |
