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Threadlike structure made of DNA molecules, which contain the genes:

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Chromosomes

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Complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes:

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DNA

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Biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; they are segments of the DNA molecules capable of synthesizing a protein:

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Genes

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Genes are active:

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Expressed Genes

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Features associated with it will appear if the gene is present:

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Dominant Genes

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Features associated with it will appear only if it is paired with another recessive gene:

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Recessive Gene

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Complete set of genetic instructions for making an organism:

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Genome

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Person’s specific genetic blueprint which is determined by the total pattern of chromosomes inherited from each parent:

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Genotype

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Actual characteristic a person devlops:

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Phenotype

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Evolutionary principle that traits that contribute to reproduction and survival are most likely to be passed on to succeeding generations:

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Natural Selection

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Random errors in gene replication that are the source of genetic diversity within a species:

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Mutations

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Study of the evolution of behavior using the principles of natural selection:

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Evolutionary Psychology

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Biological and social characteristics by which people define male and female:

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Gender

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Study of genetic and environmental influences on specific behaviors and can lead to specific behavior and mental abilities:

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Behavior Genetics

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Refers to every nongenetic, or external, influence on our traits and behaviors:

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Environment

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Develop from single fertilized egg that splits in two and therefore are genetically identical:

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Identical Twins

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Develop from two separate eggs fertilized by different sperm and therefore are no more genetically similar than ordinary siblings:

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Fraternal Twins

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Refers to a person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity:

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Temperament

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Proportion of variation among individuals in a trait that is attributable to genetic factors. Estimates place the heritability of intelligence at about 50-70%:

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Heritability

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Occurs when the effects on one factor depend on another factor:

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Interaction

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Subfield of biology that seeks to identify the specific genes that influence specific human traits and behaviors:

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Molecular Genetics

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Study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change:

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Epigenetics

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Enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next:

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Culture

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Understood social prescriptions or rules for accepted and expected behavior:

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Norms

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Buffer zone or mobile territory that people like to maintain around their bodies:

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Personal Space

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Variations in ideas, fashions, and innovations passed from one person to another that cause rapid cultural mutations:

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Memes

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Sex chromosome found in both men and women:

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X Chromosome

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Sex chromosome found only in men:

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Y Chromosome

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Principal male sex hormone that during prenatal development, stimulates the development of the external male sex organs:

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Testosterone

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Culturally prescribed set of behaviors expected of those who occupy a social position:

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Role

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Culturally prescribed set of behaviors for male and females:

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Gender Role

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One’s personal sense of being male or female:

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Gender Identity

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Acquisition of a traditional feminine or masculine gender role:

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Gender Typing

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People learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished:

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Social Learning Theory

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Children acquire a cultural concept of what it means to be female/male and adjust their behavior accordingly:

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Gender Schema Theory

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Branch of psych concerned with physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span:

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Developmental Psychology

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Stages are marked by age-specified periods of time:

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Discontinuous Development

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Relatively even process without distinct stages:

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Continuous Development

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Fertilized egg or cluster of cells formed during conception by the union of sperm and egg

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Zygote

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Developing prenatal organism from about 2 weeks though 2 months after conception:

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Embryo

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Developing prenatal human from 9 weeks after conception to birth:

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Fetus

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Any drugs, viruses, or other substances that cross the mother’s placenta and can harm the developing embryo or fetus:

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Teratogens

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Physical and cognitive abnormalities that heavy drinking by a pregnant woman may cause in the developing child:

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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Newborns curl their fingers around objects when their palms are touched:

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Grasping Reflex

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Newborn’s tendency when the cheek is stroked to orient toward the stimulus and begin sucking:

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Rooting Reflex

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Baby sucks objects placed in their mouth or when the lips are touched:

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Sucking Reflex

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Response when a sudden absence of support producing a feeling of falling:

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Moro Reflex

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Appearance of taking steps when the baby’s feet touch a flat surface:

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Stepping Reflex

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Splaying the baby’s toes when the bottom of the foot is stroked:

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Babinski Reflex

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Decreasing responsiveness to a stimulus that is repeatedly presented; simple form of learning used to study infant cognition:

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Habituation

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Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior and are relatively uninfluenced by experience or other environmental factors:

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Maturation

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Mental concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information; a theory of cognitive development by Piaget:

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Schemas

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Interpreting a new experience in terms of an existing schema:

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Assimilation

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Changing an existing schema to incorporate new information that cannot be assimilated:

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Accommodation

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The infant explores the world through direct sensory and motor contact. Object permanence and separation anxiety develop during this stage:

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Sensorimotor Stage (0-2 Years)

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The child uses symbols to represent objects but does not reason logically. The child also has the ability to pretend. During this stage the child is egocentric:

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Preoperational Stage (2-6 Years)

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The child can think logically about concrete objects and can thus add and subtract. The child also understands conservation:

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Concrete Operational Stage (7-12 Years)

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The adolescent can reason abstractly and think in hypothetical terms:

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Formal Operational Stage (12-Adult)

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Created the Stages of Cognitive Development:

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Jean Piaget

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Awareness that things do not cease to exist when not perceived/are hidden:

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Object Permanence

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Fear and distress that develops when children are confronted by individuals who are unknown to them:

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Stranger Anxiety

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Belief that inanimate objects have feelings and humanlike qualities:

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Animism

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Belief that anythin that exists must have ben ade by a conscious entity:

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Artificialism

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Piaget’s theory that during the preoperational stage, children have difficulty considering others’ viewpoints:

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Egocentrism

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Principle that properties remain constant despite changes in the forms of objects:

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Conservation

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Suggested by Lev Vygotsky under the belief that social and cultural environment allows children to progress throughout development stages more quickly/slowly depending on the stimuli in that environment:

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Sociocultural Perspective

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The difference between what a learner can do without help and what they can do with help; by Lev Vygotsky:

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Zone of Proximal Development

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Our ideas about our own/others’ thoughts, eelings, and perceptions and the behaviors these might prodeict:

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Theory of the Mind

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Emotional tie with another person, shown in young children by their seeking closeness to a caregiver and showing distress on separation:

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Attachment

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When the caregiver leaves the baby with a stranger, the baby is upset and cries for a while but then will engage in the environment/toys, and when the caregiver returns, the baby will try to touch the caregiver and return to playing:

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Secure Attachment

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When the caregiver leaves the baby with a stranger, the baby is very distressed and when the caregiver returns, the baby is resentful:

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Anxious/Ambivalent

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When the caregiver leaves the baby with a stranger, the baby is indifferent, and when the caregiver returns, the baby may seek contact but then pull away:

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Avoidant Attachment

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Physical comfort a caregiver provides:

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Contact Comfort

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An item that helps to soothe a child when contact comfort cannot be provided:

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Transitional Object

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Limited time shortly after birth during which an organism must be exposed to certain experiences/influences if it is to develop properly:

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Critical Period

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Instinctive bonding to the first moving object seen within hours after birth:

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Imprinting

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A sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy:

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Basic Trust

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Right and wrong is determined by rewards/punishments:

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Preconventional Morality

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Views of others matter; avoidance of blame; seeking approval:

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Conventional Morality

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Abstract notions of justive; rights of others can override obedience to laws/rules:

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Post-conventional Mrality

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Created moral development:

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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Development: Weaning off of breastfeeding/formula
Adult Fixation: Smoking, overeating

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Oral Stage

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Development: Toilet training
Adult Fixation: Orderliness, messiness

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Anal Stage

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Development: Resolving Oedipus/Electra Complex
Adult Fixation: Deviancy, sexual dysfunction

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Phallic Stage

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Development: Developing defense mechanisms
Adult Fixation: None

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Latency Stage

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Development: Reaching full sexual maturity
Adult Fixation: The person should be sexually matured and mentally healthy

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Genital Stage

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Created the Psychosexual Stages:

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Sigmund Freud

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Children develop a sense of trust when caregivers provide reliability, care, and affection. A lack of this will lead to mistrust:

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Trust vs. Mistrust (Birth - 18 months)

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Children need to develop a sense of personal control over physical skills and a sense of independence:

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Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt (2-3 yrs)

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Children need to begin asserting control and power over the environment:

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Initiative vs. Guilt (3-5 yrs)

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Children need to cope with new social and academic demands:

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Industry vs. Inferiority (6-11 rs)

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Teens need to develop a sense of self and personal identity:

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Identity vs. Role Confusion (12-18 yrs)

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Young adults need to form intimate, loving relationships with other people:

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Intimacy vs. Isolation (19-40 yrs)

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Adults need to create or nurture things that will outlast them:

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Generativity vs. Stagnation (40-65 yrs)

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Older adults need to look back on life and feel a sense of fulfillment:

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Integrity vs. Despair (65-death)

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Babies cry little, are easy to calm, and have predictable sleep/wake cycles:

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Easy Temperament

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Less predictable and more irritable and challenging to calm with unpredictable sleep and wake patterns:

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Difficult Temperament

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Enforce their rules without input from children and live by philosophy “my way or the highway”:

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Authoritarian Parents

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Cannot make decisions for themselves and when older, often make poor decisions and seem to be immature with low levels of self-esteem:

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Children of Authoritarian Parents

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Responsive to the input and needs to their children and set rules and expectations but are not as rigid and demanding:

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Authoritative Parents

101
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Well balanced, exhibit decision making abilities and high self-esteem:

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Children of Authoritative Parents

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Very lax in parenting; often have more of a friendship with the child and has few boundaries:

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Permissive Parents

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Very impulsive and demanding because they have become accustomed to getting their way:

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Children of Permissive Parents

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Not involved with their children’s lives and don’t care to be involved:

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Rejecting-Neglecting Parents

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Low self-esteem and act as adults prematurely because they have had to make decisions for themselves form a young age:

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Children of Rejecting-Neglecting Parents

106
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Person’s sense of identity and personal worth:

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Self-Concept

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Life stage from puberty to independent adulthood:

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Adolescence

108
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Period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproduction:

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Puberty

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Body structures that enable reproduction:

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Primary Sex Characteristics

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Non-reproductive sexual characteristics:

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Secondary Sex Characteristics

111
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First menstrual period:

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Menarche

112
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The primary task of an adolescent per Erikson is to create one’s sense of self:

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Identity

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Time in which an adolescent has not yet undergone an identity crisis and has made no commitment about their own identity:

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Identity Diffusion

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Teens often simply adopt the view of ther parents or socety than adopt their own core beliefs:

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Identity Foreclosure

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Adolescents struggling with their sense of identity and experience identity crisis:

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Identity Moratorium

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Post-crisis phase during which individuals have identified and acknowledged who they are/what they want to be:

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Identity Achievement

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Primary task of last adolescence and early adulthood when one establishes close, loving relationships:

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Intimacy

118
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Culturally preferred timing of social events, such as leaving home, marrying, having children, and retiring:

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Social Clock

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Emotional and identity-questioning crisis occurring in early middle age:

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Midlife Crisis

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Study of adulthood and aging:

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Gerontology

121
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Cessation of menstruation and typically occurs in the early fifties:

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Menopause

122
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Brain condition in which thinking, memory, and behavior being to deteriorate:

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Dementia

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Degenerative disease in which memory loss is progressive and plaques accumulate in the nervous system tissues and lowers levels and ACh and genetic trait in chromosome 19:

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Alzheimer’s Disease

124
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People of different ages are compared with one another:

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Cross-Sectional Study

125
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People are tested and retested over a period of years:

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Longitudinal Study

126
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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

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Stages of Death & Dying by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

127
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Studied the attachmet process with baby monkeys:

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Harry Harlow

128
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Psychologist noted for her work on patterns of attachment:

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Mary Ainsworth

129
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Emphasized the social aspects of moral decision-making rather than the cognitive approach by Kohlberg:

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Albert Bandura

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Proposed four stages in developing a sense of identity based on the criteria of crisis:

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James Marcia

131
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Noted for her reasearch on parenting, different parenting styles, and their influence on childrens’ beavior

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Diana Baumrind

132
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Criticized Kohlberg and argued that society encouraged males to be more assertive than females; therefore, females are more likely to forego their own beliefs:

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Carol Gilligan

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