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34 Cards in this Set
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Rooting Reflex
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An infant's response in turning toward the source of touching that occurs anywhere around his or her mouth.
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Assimilation
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The process of fitting objects and experiences into one's schemas to deal with new situations and to understand the environment.
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Conservation
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According to Piaget, the principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed.
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Imprinting
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Inherited tendency of some newborn animals to follow the first moving object they see.
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Maturation
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The internally programed growth of a child that occurs as a result of automatic, genetically determined signals.
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Authoritarian Families
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Family in which parents attempt to control, shape, and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of children in accordance with a set code of conduct.
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Permissive Families
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Family in which children have the final say; parents are less controlling and have a non punishing, accepting attitude towards children.
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Democratic Families
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Family in which adolescents participate in decisions affecting their lives.
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Telegraphic Speech
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The kind of verbal utterances offered by young children in which articles, prepositions, and parts of verbs are left out, but the meaning is usually clear.
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Schemas
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An idea or mental framework a person uses to organize and interpret info and make sense of the world.
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Object Permanence
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A child's realization that an object exists even when he or she cannot see, hear, or touch it.
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Egocentric
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A young child's inability to understand another person's perspective.
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Socialization
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The process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born and will live.
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Sublimation
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The process of redirecting sexual impulses into learning tasks.
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Developmental Psychology
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The branch of psychology that studies the emotional, physical, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur thought an individual's life.
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Initiation Rites
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A ceremony or ritual in which an individual is admitted to a new status of accepted into a new position.
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Puberty
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The period of sexual maturation; the end of childhood and the point when reproduction is first possible.
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Menarche
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A female's first menstrual period.
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Spermarche
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A period during which a male achieve first ejaculation.
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Identity Crisis
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A period of inner conflict during which adolescents worry intensely about who they are.
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Clique
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A small, exclusive group of people within a larger group.
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Conformity
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Acting in accord with a group norms or customs.
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Anorexia Nervosa
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A serious eating disorder where the fear of gaining weight results in prolonged self-starvation and dramatic weight loss.
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Bulimia Nervosa
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A serious eating disorder characterized by compulsive overeating usually followed by self-induced vomiting or abuse of laxatives.
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Gender Identity
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The sex group to which an individual biologically belongs; and individual's subjective sense of being male or female.
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Gender Stereotype
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An oversimplified or distorted generalization about the characteristics of men or women.
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Menopause
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The biological event in which a woman's production of sex hormones is sharply reduced.
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Generatively
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The desire in middle age to use one's accumulated wisdom to guide future generations.
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Stagnation
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A discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past, characteristic of some middle-aged people.
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Decremental Model of Aging
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A theory that holds that progressive physical and mental decline is inevitable with age.
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Ageism
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Prejudice or discrimination based on age, especially against the elderly.
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Senile Dementia
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A collective term to describe decreases in mental abilities experienced by some people after the age of 65.
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Thanatology
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The study of dying and death.
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Hospice
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A type of care for terminally ill patients; an organization that provides such care.
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