Chp11-2ndHalfReverse Flashcards
The manner in which parents rear their children
Parenting style?
Specific parenting behaviours that aris in response to particular parental goals.
Parenting practises?
Comfort derived from an infant’s physical contact wiht the mother or caregiver.
Contact comfort?
the capacity to make a full commitment - sexual, emotional and moral - to another person
Intimacy”
the view that suggest that as people age they become more selective in choosing social partners who satisfy their emotional needs
Selective social interaction theory?
A commitment beyond one’s self and one’s partner to family, work, society and future generations.
Generativity?
A biologically based characteristic that distinguishes males from females.
Sex difference?
A psychological phenomenon that refers to learned sex related behaviours and attitudes of males and females.
Gender?
Ones sense of maleness or femaleness; usually includes awareness and acceptance of one’s biological sex.
Gender identity
Belief about attitudes and behaviours regarded as appropriate for males and females in a particular culture.
Gender stereotype?
A system of beliefs and values that ensures that individuals will keep their obligations to others in society and will behave in ways that do not interfere with the rights and interests of others.
Morality?
A strategy for successful ageing in which one makes the most gains while minimising the impact of losses that accompany normal ageing.
Selective optimisation with compensation?
According to Vygogtsky, the process through which children absorb knowledge from the social context that has a major impact on how cognition unfolds over time.
Internalisation?
A framework for initial unerstanding formulated by children to explain their experiences of the world.
Foundational theory?
The minimal unit of speech in any given language that makes a meaningful difference in speech and production and reception.
Phoneme?