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Content Area I: Human Development, Diversity, and Behavior in the Environment Flashcards

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At what age do MOST children begin to understand the irreversibility of death?

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Age 5

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How can you learn about the behaviors and attitudes of an ethnic group?

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learn about their values and traditions

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Forensic Interviewing

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  • 1st step in most CPS investigations (interview children to find out if they have been maltreated)
  • produces evidence that will stand up in criminal court
  • ensure social workers’ objectivity, employ non-leading techniques, and emphasize careful documentation
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At about what age does Freud state that the superego begins to emerge and what is it?

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5 years; holds all of our internalized moral standards and ideals that we acquire from both parents and society—our sense of right and wrong

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What increases resistance to behavioral extinction and why?

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intermittent reinforcement because reinforcements increase the likelihood of behavior and the varying frequency ensures the person does the behavior even when the reward doesn’t come

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generativity vs. stagnation

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  • midlife crisis, middle adulthood
  • develop a sense of being a part of the bigger picture, as well as giving back to society (guiding the next generation) and if not they become self-absorbed
  • care
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formal operations

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11+ years
higher level of abstraction, assuming adult roles, and thinking hypothetically

12-year-old able to stay home alone because he is aware of dangers, meets his basic needs, and problem-solves when needed

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rapprochement

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A stage in childhood development in which a small child needs reassurance from a caregiver

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Twinship

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childhood need of feeling a sense of belonging with others in order to develop a strong sense of self

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negative entropy

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an exchange of energy and resources to promote growth

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groupthink

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faulty decision making due to group pressure

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latent content

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underlying meaning or themes of words used (rather than explicit)

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conversion

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when mental conflict or disturbance is transferred into a physical symptom to relieve anxiety

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reaction formation

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when a client adopts attitudes or engages in behaviors that are the opposite of unconscious belief; behavior that contrasts with feelings

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social stratification

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unequal access to social rewards based on status or identity

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Internalization and commitment

cultural development

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person is comfortable with their own cultural identity and those of others

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preconventional stage of moral development

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9 years and below; behaving appropriately only due to fear of consequences

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suprasystem

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an entity that is served by a number of component systems and produces output based on that relationship

a community (suprasystem) is served by its neighborhoods, churches, and schools (subsystems) and it’s influence is affected by those subsystems

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Key role of

Group facilitator

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keep participants focused on the purpose of the meeting

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Preschool age sexual development

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masturbation and touching peer genitals

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Characteristics associated with sexual abuse

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  • promiscuity
  • low self-esteem
  • eating disorder
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22
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AA thinks of alchohol as a

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disease

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industry vs. inferiority

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  • age 6 to puberty (elementary school)
  • children develop sense of pride in accomplishments if encouraged and reinforced
  • if not encouraged, develop inferiority and doubt in abilities
  • competence
24
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Six Levels of Cognition

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  1. Knowledge
  2. Comprehension
  3. Application
  4. Analysis
  5. Synthesis
  6. Evaluation

(King Charles And Anne Save Elephants)

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Knowledge

6 levels of cognition

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memorization of facts

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Comprehension

6 levels of cognition

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summarization and explanation

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Application

6 levels of cognition

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  • 3rd level
  • using knowledge to carry out a task in a new context

design and conduct an experiement

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Analysis

6 levels of cognition

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  • 4th level
  • examining components and structure and breaking them down
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Synthesis

6 levels of cognition

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  • 5th level
  • combination of facts, ideas, or information to make something new
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Evaluation

6 levels of cognition

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  • 6th level
  • forming an opinion about information or situation
31
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Stages of Spiritual Development

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  1. Egotistical - unwilling to accept will greater than their own
  2. Confirming/Blind Faith - black and white thinking “right or wrong”
  3. Integration - of beliefs into larger worldview, deeper understanding of good and evil
32
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Things that reduce incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

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  • giving babies pacifiers
  • quitting smoking
  • removing blankets and excessive bedclothes from crib
33
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dynamic risk factor

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based on changeable factors

34
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Sandwhich Generation

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a generation of people who care for their aging parents (65 and older) while supporting their own children

35
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Freud

Phallic stage

Stages of Psychosexual Development

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  • ages 3 to 5
  • focus on genitalia
  • playing doctor and engaging in masturbation
  • become of aware of differences between boys and girls
36
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Nonnormative influence

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  • irregular
  • affects relatively few people
  • does not follow a predictable time-table

hurricane katrina

37
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Behavioral Personality Theory

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describes personality as the result of the interaction between persons and their environment

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social constructionist theory

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people learn to understand the world and their place in it through their interactions with others

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Poverty risk factors

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  • low education level
  • being part of an economically challenged community
  • experiencing poverty in the past
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John Hollands 6 Personality Types

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  • Affect vocational choice
    1. * investigative
    2. social
    3. realistic
    4. artistic
    5. conventional
    6. enterprising
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phenotype

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  • observable characterstics of an individual
  • product of genotype and environment

eye color or height

42
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metacommunication

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the context in which communication items are interpreted

body language, tone, and nonverbal communication

43
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positivist school of thought

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emphasizes the need for treatment as an approach to crime prevention and believes it to be a result of factors outside the offenders control (like poverty or mental illness)

44
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Stages of couples development

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  1. Romance (attachment)
  2. Power Struggle
  3. Stability
  4. Commitment
  5. Co-creation
45
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concrete-operational

stage of cognitive development

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ability to solve concrete problems through logic and problem solving is developed

basic math problems

46
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Biofeedback

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  • training program that enhances awareness and control of the body’s response to stress
  • often used to treat anxiety disorders
47
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Throughput

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  • systems theory
  • energy that is integrated into the system so that it can be used to accomplish that system’s goals
48
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Initiative vs. guilt

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  • kindergarten
  • if encouraged children develop sense of purpose and motivation to try new things
  • if not they feel guilt and lack of initiative
  • purpose
49
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Identity vs. role confusion

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  • 12-19yrs (teenage)
  • either develop strong sense of self or emerge with uncertainty about who they are
  • fidelity
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Intimacy vs. isolation

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  • 20-40yrs (young adulthood)
  • either form loving and lasting relationships or feel lonely and isolated
    *love
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Pre-operational

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  • 2-7yrs
  • make-believe and symbolic thinking
52
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PIE

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Person in environment

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PIE

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Person in environment

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Respondent behavior

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Involuntary behavior

55
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Family systems approach

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  • families fulfill functions for each other
  • families seek feeling of balance
  • each family is unique
56
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Meta communication

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Captures the entire content of a message, including verbal and nonverbal behaviors

57
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Attachment theory is rooted in

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Evolutionary development

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