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A process in which people express their genetic tendencies by finding environments that match and enhance those tendencies

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Active niche-picking

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Standardized measures of learning connected with academic subjects

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Achievement test

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The emotional bond that develops between an infant and caregivers between an infant and caregivers during the first year of life

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Attachment

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Changes in the way we think, understand and reason about the world

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Cognitive development

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The influence of genetic inheritance on children’s development

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Nature

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Tests used to assess brain function

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Neuropsychological tests

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The influence of the environment on children’s development

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Nurture

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A process in which professionals critique an article and make suggestions for improvement before it is published

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Peer review

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The tendency to see and understand something in the way you expected

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Perceptual bias

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Assessments based on an individual’s projections of aspects of their own personality onto ambiguous external stimuli such as an inkblot

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Projective tests

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Changes in the overall nature of what you are examining

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Qualitative changes

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A change in the amount or quantity of what you are measuring

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Quantitative changes

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The help more experienced people give to help kids go beyond their present level of capabilities

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Scaffolding

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The same pathways may lead to different development outcomes

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Multifinality

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Different development pathways may result in the same outcome

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Equifinality

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Changing your mental schemas so that the new experiences

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Accommodation

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Freud second stage of development during which toddlers sexual energy is focused on the anus toilet training and control our major issues

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Anal stage

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Fitting new experiences into extent existing mental schema

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Assimilation

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The theory developed by John B Watson that focused on environmental control of observable behavior

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Behaviorism

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The process by which a stimulus the unconditioned stimulus that naturally evokes a certain response the unconditioned response is paired repeatedly with a neutral stimulus eventually the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus and events the same response now called the conditioned response

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Classical conditioning

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The third stage in Piaget’s theory in which children between six and 12 years of age develop logical thinking that is still not abstract

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Concrete operations

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The part of the personality of that contends with the reality of the world and controls the basic drives

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Ego

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The inability to see the world from the perspective of people other than oneself

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Egocentrism

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Settings that the child never enters external to the child but which affect the child’s development nevertheless such as parents place of work

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Exosystem

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Piagets fourth stayed in which people 12 and older think both logically and abstractly

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Formal operations

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Freud’s fifth and final stage in which people 12 and older develops adult sexuality

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Genital stage

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According to psychoanalytic theory basic drive such a sex and hunger

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Id

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Cultural norms that guide the nature of the organizations and places that make up ones every day life

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Macro system

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The interaction among the various Settings image microsystem such as the child school and home

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Mesosystem

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The interaction of the person in her immediate settings such as homeschool our friendship groups

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Microsystems

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In operant conditioning The removal of an unpleasant stimulus makes the behavior more likely to happen again

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Negative reinforcement

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The understanding that I have Jack still exist when an infant does not

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Object permanence

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The process that happens when the response that follows a behavior cause that behavior to happen more

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Operant conditioning

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Piaget’s second stage of development and which children’s ages 2 to 7 have not yet have a logical thought instead think magically an egocentric

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Preoperational stage

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Ericsson stages that are based on central conflict to be resolved involving the social world and development of the identity

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Psychosocial stages

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Changes in the overall nature of what you’re examining

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Qualitative change

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Changes in the amount or quantity of what you are measuring

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Quantitative change

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Pandora’s concept of a belief in our power to influence our own functioning and life circumstances

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Self efficacy

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He is Jay’s final stage in which infants learn through their senses and their actions upon the world

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Sensorimotor stage

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According to vygotsky this is what the child cannot do on her own but can do with a little help from someone more skilled or knowledgeable

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Zone of proximal development development

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Frueds concept of the conscious or sense of right and wrong

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Super ego

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The idea that info processed through a series of mental locations sensory to short term to long term memory stores

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Stores model