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In social encounters, evaluations of other intentions, motivations and behavior.

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Social information processing

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Social information processing

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Evaluations of others intentions, motivations, and behaviors.

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Social status

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Within a group, the degree of power, authority and influence that each person has in the view of the others

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Within a group the degree of power, influence and authority that each person has in the view of other

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Social status

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Industry vs inferiority

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The alternatives are to learn to work effectively with cultural materials or, if adults are too critical they develop a sense of incapable of working effectively.

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Erickson’s middle childhood stage, in which the alternative is to learn to work effectively with cultural materials, or if the adults are too critical, the develop a sense of of being incapable of working effectively.

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Industry vs inferiority

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Social skills

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Behavior that include being friendly, helpful, cooperative, and considerate.

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Behavior that include being friendly, helpful, cooperative and considerate.

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Social skills

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Social organization based on grouping of similar ages

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Age grade

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Age grade

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Social organization that involves grouping people by age

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pattern of maltreatment of peers, including aggression, repetition and and power of imbalance.

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Bullying

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Bullying

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Pattern of maltreatment of peers, including aggression, repetition and imbalance.

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Media multitask

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Simultaneously use of more than one media form

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Simultaneous use of more than one media form

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Media multitask

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Concrete operations

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Children became capable of using mental operations

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Cognitive stage, in which children being capable of using mental operations.
-reasoning logically.

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Concrete operation

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Seriation

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Ability to arrange things in a logical order.

-shortest to longest

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Ability to arrange things I a logical order.

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Seriation

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Decentering

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Cognitive ability to take more than one object of the problem into count

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Cognitive ability to take more than one aspect of the problem into count

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Decentering

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Cultural models

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Cognitive structure pertaining to common cultural activities

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Cognitive structures pertaining to common cultural activities

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Cultural models

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Organization

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Involves placing things mentally into meaningful categories

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Involves placing thoughts into meaningful categories

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Organizations

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ADHD

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Usually first diagnose in middle childhood. When children are require to sit still for longer periods

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Usually diagnose in middle childhood when children are required to sit still for longer periods of time

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ADHD

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Selective attention

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Ability to focus attention on relevant information and disregard what is irrelevant

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Ability to focus attention in revel ant information and disregard in irrelevant information

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Selective attention

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Elaboration

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Transforming bits of information in a way that connects them and hints makes them easy to remember

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Transforming bits of information in a way that connects them and hints make them easy to remember

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Elaboration

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Transitive inference

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ability to place objects a logical order mentally

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Ability to place objects in a logical order mentally

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Transitive inference

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I.Q

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Score of mental ability as assessed by intelligence test.

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Score of mental ability as assessed by intelligence test, calculated relative to the performance of others

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I.Q

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Rehearsal

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Repetition of material over and over

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Repetition of Information over and over

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Rehearsal

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Mental retardation

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Level of cognitive abilities of persons who score 70 or below IQ

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Level of cognitive abilities of person who score 70 or below IQ

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Retardation

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Normal distribution

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Typical distribution of characters of a population.

Most fall near the middle of the belt

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Intelligence

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Capacity for acquiring knowledge, reasoning and solving problems.

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Capacity for acquiring knowledge, reasoning and problem solving.

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Intelligence

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Mnemonics

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Memorization strategies, such as rehearsal, elaboration, organization.

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Obese

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BMI exceeding 21lbs

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Overweight

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BMI exceeding 18

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Myopia

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Unable to see far distant objects

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Metamemory

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Understanding how memory works

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Asthma

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Chronic pulmonary disease, characterized by wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath.

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Chronic pulmonary disease, characterized by wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath.

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Asthma

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Whole language approach

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Teaching reading that is emphasized on the meaning of written language by passages, rather than breaking down words to their smallest components.

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Teaching reading emphasized on the meaning of language by using passage rather than phonics

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Whole language approach

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Phonics approach

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Breaking down a word in to its smallest components rather, and sounding out piece by piece

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Method of teaching reading that advocates breaking down words in their components sounds, then putting the phonics together in to words

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Phonics approach

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Triarchic theory of intelligence

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Stembergs theory, 3 distinctive types of intelligence but related forms
-analytic, creative and practical.

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Theory of multiple intelligence

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Garners theory that there are 8 distinctive types of intelligence

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Flynn effect

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Steep rise in median IQ scores in the western countries.

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IQ and genetics

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The closer the genetic relationship the higher the correlation

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Gifted

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IQ scores over 130

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Stepfamily

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One of the parents is not biological while the other is

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Divorce mediation

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Parents negotiate an agreement via a professional mediator

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Arrangement in which a professional mediator meets with parents to negotiate a agreement

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Divorce mediation

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Coercive cycle

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Children disobedient behavior evokes harsh responses from parents, which turn children even more resistant.

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Pattern of behavior between parents and children in which Children disobedient behavior evokes harsh responses from parents, which turn children even more resistant.

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Coercive cycle

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Family process

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Quality of the relationship between family members

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Quality of the relationship between family members

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Family process

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Co regulation

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Relationship between parents and children in which parents provide guidelines for behavior but children are capable of substantial amount of independence and self directed behavior

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Relationship between parents and children in which parents provide guidelines for behavior but children are capable of substantial amount of independence and self directed behavior

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Correlation

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Self esteem

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Overall sense of worth and well being

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Social comparison

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How person view themselves in relation to others in regard of status, abilities, or achievements

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How person see themselves in relation to others comparing status, achievements, and abilities

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Social comparison

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Self concept

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Perception or evaluation of him or her

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Person’s perception and evaluation of him or her

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Self concept

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Experience sampling method

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Experiment where people wore beepers, and they had to fill a form a describe how they feel at the moment the beeper went off

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Learning disability

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Cognitive disorder that impedes the development of learning a specific skill, reading or math

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Cognitive disorder that impedes the development of learning a specific skill, reading or math

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Learning disability

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Dyslexia

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Difficulty sounding out letters, spelling words and misperceive the word

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Learning disability that includes difficulty sounding out letters difficulty learning to spell words tendency to misperceive words

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Dyslexia

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Ambivalence

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Experiencing two contradictory emotion at once

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