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Adolescent Exam 1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
02/06/2012

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"Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the next step directly infront of you"
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Sarah Addison Allen
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Which nation discussed about adolescents in early history?
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Greece
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Plato
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4th cent BC adolescents are abstract and reasoning doesn't develop till adolescent.
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Aristotle
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reason appears in adolescent. ability to choose is important "me me me". This shit is not new.
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Middle ages
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thought that the adolescent was a mini adult
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Jean Jacques Rosseau
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18th century. Adolescent is a unique period of life
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20th century
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invention of adolescent
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Stanley Hall
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father of scientific study of adolescent.
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Stanley Hall thought of two views
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Storm and stress and inventionist view
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Storm and stress
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Adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings.
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Inventionist view
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Sociohistorical view.
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Coheort effects
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people same age group effect same age group.
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Millenials
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born after 1980s
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Adolescent stereotype
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Usually observable, emotional, immature, stubborn, lazy, selfish, apathetic, annoying, loud.
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Adolescent generalization gap
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Gave stereotype about adolescents because of a miniority highly visible group
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Positive youth development
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focus on positive attitudes and positive qualities.
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Contexts
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setting in which development occurs. opportunities are high.
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National ->
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Family
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Generational inequity
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Social policies, unfair treatment.
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Culturual differences
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2/3 asian adolescents
street youth
ME adolescenets not allowed to interact with opposite sex
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Traditions
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Men have more opportunity. parental support.
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Changes
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New opportunities, health and well being.
Doing more sex and drugs.
Families more mobility.
Enrolled in school
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Development
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Changes that begins at conception and continues through lifestyle
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[image]
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Childhood comes before
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Adolescence
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Transition to adolescents
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Bio (puberty)
Cog (abstract reasoning)
Socio Emotional changes(independence protective)
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Adolescent stages...
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Early- MS. HS
Late-15-20
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Transition to adulthood
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18-25
Temporary, instability, ID exploration, self focused, age of possibilities
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Which stage of adult hood is parents in?
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Middle
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Possible markers of adulthood
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Economic independence
Self-responsibility
Independent decision making
Accepting responsibility for consequence.
Deciding own beliefs and values
Establishing a relationship equal with parent.
Resiliance
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Resiliance
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Bounce back up
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Nature vs Nurture
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Biological inheritance vs nurture born with basic intel.
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Continuity vs discontinuity
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How do we develop and reach a certain age
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Early vs Later
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if early experiences are key or if later experiences are key
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Scientific method
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Conceptualize a process or problem
Collect research info
AnALYZE DATA
dRAW CONCLUSION.
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Theory
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interrelated, choerent set of ideas that helps to explain phenomena and make predictions
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Hypothesis
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What is tested. Specific assertions and predictions that can be tested.
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Problem with Freud's theories.
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Cant test. Overly concerned with sex and negative of people. Prescribing coke.
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Psychosexual Stages
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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital
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Oral
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1-2 years old
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Anal
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Toilet training
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Phallic
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4-5 years old. Play with themselves.
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Latency
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No conflict learning.
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Genital
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Adolescent puberty.
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Id
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seeks pleasure
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Ego
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what is learned. rational decisions
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Super ego
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moral compass
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Defense mechanisims
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Unconcious methods that ego uses that says it's ok (rationalization)
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Sigmeund Freud
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Development framework, family relationships
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Erikson
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It's not so much on sex development; look at social and lifespan development
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Eriksons Psychosocial Theory
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8 stages of life. Each stage develop crises. If not sucessful at task in 1 stage, will have difficulty with next stage.
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Stages ____ for adolescence according to _____
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4-6; Erikson.
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Stage ___ (____)-____
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4; pre adolescence; Industry V. Inferiority.
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Industry v Inferiority
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Mastery of knowledge/Intelectual skills
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Outcomes of Erikson stage 4
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Feelings of incompetence and inferiority.
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Stage 5 of Erikson (____):-
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adolescence; Id vs Identity confusion.
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Stage 5 of Erikson involves (which is also ___)
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Explore who you are and where you want to go in a healthy manner.; Discontinous
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Negative outcome of stage 5 of Erikson
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Fail to explore or fail to explore in a healthy way lead to confusion
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Stage 6 of erikson (____):
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Intimacy v Isiolation. Form healthy friendships and intimate relationships
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Negative outcome of stage6 of erikson
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Isolation
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Cog Theories
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Emphasis on concious thoughts.
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Three important cog theories
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Piaget's cog develop theory. (in cog realm how we develop and think.)
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Cog Theory. (what's going around)
Info process theory (Cog develop machine like)
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Skinner's Operant Condition
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Behavior is learned and often changes according to enviromental experience.
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Example of skinner's operant condition
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Reward-punishment system.
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Bandura's socioal cog theory
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Behavior, enviroment, and cog interact to influence development.
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Ecological theory
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Bronfenbrenner (it's not immediate enviorment)
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Microsystem
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Immediate family, school individual has experience with
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Mesosystem
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Link with microsystems. Family and school can effect one another
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Exosystem
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link setting where adolescent not active and the experience.
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Example of Exosystem
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Mom works 24/7 and doesn't spend time with kids.
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Macrosystem
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culture
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Chronosystem
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major events or transitions.
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Electic Theoretical Orientation
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not following any one approach; select from each theory what is most appropriate
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Methods for collecting data
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Descriptive
Correlational
Experimental
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Correlational
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Collect by serverys if relating
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Correlation does not...
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cause.
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Experimental
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seems as if one thing causes another.
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Cross-sectional study
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individuals of different age compared to each other at one time.
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Longitiduinal study
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individuals followed over a long period of time.
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Weakness of cross
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Assuming going to develop the same
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weakness of longitidunal study
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expensive time consuming.
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Sequential study
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Combination of both cross sectional and longitudinal.
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APA's guidelines address four important issues
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1. Informed consent
2. Confidentiality
3. Debriefing
4. DEception
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Confidentiality
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Private, secret.
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Ethnic gloss
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Lumping people
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Some things to consider in ethical research
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Popular media, sample size, single studies, correlational does not equal causation, consider the source.
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Neuron
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three basic parts, cell body, dendrites, and axon
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Dendrite
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receive
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Axon
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sends
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Synaptogenesis
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during adolescence 7 connections of neurons
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NTs
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Chemicals dopamine and seratonin
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What happens when myelin sheath breaks?
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Multiple scoloris
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Neurons are...
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Connected in precise ways and form various structures in the brain.
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Corpus Callosum
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Connects brain bundles of axon fibers. Thickens during adolescence which means more efficient processing
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Prefrontal cortex
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Front part of brain, involves judgment and reasoning. Doesn't finish till 18-25
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Amygdala
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emotions
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Experience
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can make new brain cells
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Plasticity
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brains remarkable ability to repair or rejuvinate itself (grow)
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Earlier injury...
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is better recovery fast.
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left brain strokes
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language 90% of US has this. seperated by corpus
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Phantom limbs
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neurons needed something to do and it's rejuvinating
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dr Ramachandran
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explained phantom limbs.
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Piaget's Cog development
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sensorimotor, properational, concrete operational, formal operational
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Sensorimotor (___)-
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(0-2) brain develop connections. sensory experients
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Preoperational (___) -
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2-7 walking, talking, child learns through image and language
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Concrete operational (___)-
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logical reasoning classify things. conservation logic
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formal operational (____) -
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abstractly
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Hypothetical deductive reasoning
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develop hypo and go into research
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Cog processes
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Schema, assimilation, accomodation, equilibrium
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Schema
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concept of something, helps organize and interprate early
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Assimilation
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incoroproate new info into existing knowledge
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Accomodation
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change existing knowledcge
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Equilibrium
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tries to resolve conflict
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Theory of Piaget's theory
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Instrumental emphasized how to adapt
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Criticism of Piaget's theory
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stage view too rigid, to semeral typically, culture is not adequately represented, cog changes in adult hood, early realistic and pragmatic thinking, later reflect eraltivism and relatvistic thinking
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Vygotsky's theory
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Social constructivis approach
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Vy's emphasis
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learning through social interaction language and culture.
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Teachers according to vy
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are facilitators and guides
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Zone of prox development
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ZPD zone of learning how you learm immediatly
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Compare Vy and Piaget
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Culture:Vy
Construct: (Vy's social) (Piaget's cog)
Stages: Piaget
Language: Vy
Edu: (vy's central) (piaget's supportive role)
key processes: (Vy's zpd) (piaget's schema)
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Info processing (Vy)
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Not stage like, cog resources, attention is divided selective sustatined and exe, cog control gets better, decision making improves
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Cog resouruces (vy)
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certain capacity, speed processing (quantative)
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Exe functioning-
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qualitative type of thinking what kind.
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Inductive reasoning
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reasoning from specific to the general. doesn't mean conclusion is true.
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deductive reasoning
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reasoning from the general to specfiic. if premise is true, conclusion is true.
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Critical thinking
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think reflexively, productively and evaluation the evidence.
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convergent thinking
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converses to a correct answer
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creative thinking
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thinking is a novel or unusual way and come up with a unique solution to probs.
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Metacos
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Thinking about thinking (qualitative monkey mind)
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Domain thinking
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specific thinking skills
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Psychometric intel view
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emphasizes importance of individual differences in intel
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Intel
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prob solving skills and ability to learn from and adapt to life's everyday exp
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Intel tests
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binet revisions of stand forbinet. Wechsler scales
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CA=
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Actual age
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MA=
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Mental Age
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how to calculate iq
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MA/CA X 100 = IQ
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SD=
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15
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70-=
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mental retardation
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When using intel tests keep in mind...
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Psych tests are tools
Avoid stereotyping expectations
IQ is not a sole indicator of competence
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Stereotype threat
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generalization
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Steil Erikson makes..
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aware before performance
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Sternberg's triarchic theory
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test intel on 3 types...analytical intel,creative and practical
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Analytical intel
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problem solving
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Gardener's 8 frames of mind
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Verbal, musical, mathmatical, spatial bodily, naturalist, intrapersonal, interpersonal, Kinesthetic
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Intrapersonal
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self aware
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Gardenerr's emotional intel
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manage socially and emotionall
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Goleman (1995) and Slovey Mayer 1990
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emphasized 3 aspects of intel..interpersonal, intrapersonal, practical
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Contrverties in intel
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heredity, enviroment
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Most researchers agree (intel)
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that genetics and enviroment interact to influence intel
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Flynn Effect
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studies on iq scores 1910-20 found 7 of average iq tests. 3 points a decade. increase edu and increase tech. health increase and nutritrion increase
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Social Cog
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way individuals conceptualize and reason about social worlds
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Adolescent egocentricism (aristotle)
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personabl fable (no one can understand!!!)
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Perspective taking
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taking a diff perspective (interpersonal)
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self understanding
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Social cog construction
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Individuals cog rep of the self
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substance and content of self conception.
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What is needed in self understanding
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functions of seld hood, interpersonal tool, decision making, self regulation, self reference effect.
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self refference effect
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evolution; some reference to self, pay attention to it.
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Public self
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How you are reperesented
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Private self
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how you see yourself
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collective self
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ID with groups.
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Dimensions of adolescent self understanding
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abstract and idealistic, differntiated, fluctuating, contradiction, real v ideal, social comparison, self consciousness, self protection, unconsious self.
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Social comparison
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(ideal) compare to peers.
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self consciousness
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attempt to find who they are
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self protection
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unwilling to accept negative criticism
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unconscious self
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(freud) stuff going on unconciously.
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self esteem
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global; aka self wart or self image; global evaluative dimension of the self.
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self concept
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refers to domain specific evaluations of the self.
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measures self esteem and self concept
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self perception profile for adolescent asses 8 domains, behavioral observation in the asses self esteem
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self esteem reflects
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perceptions don't always match reality.
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Social context
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(family, peers, schools etc) contribute to the development of an adolescent self esteem
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Peer judgments...
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gain increase importance in adol.
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is positive self esteem stable?
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no, social context changes according to short term events.
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Consequences of low self esteem
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implicated in depression, suicide, anorexia, nervosa, delinquency, and other adjustment problems.
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Increase adol self esteem
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self esteem often increase when adol faces a probelm and tries to cope with it.
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The comprehensive and proactive theory of ID development is...
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that of erik erikson
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psychosocial moratorium
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caught between opposite of dependency and autonomy.
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Personality and role experimentation...
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a deliberate effort on the part of adols to find their place in the world (core of ID develop)
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The 4 statuses of ID created by
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Marcia
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ways of resolving ID crisis...
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ID diffusion,forecloseure,moratorium, achievement.
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ID diffusion
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no explore, no commitment.
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ID foreclosure
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no explore, made commitment to not explore
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ID moratorium
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explore, no commitment
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ID achievement
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explore, commitment
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Authoritarian
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"Because, shut up"
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Authoritative
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is good.
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Family influences on ID development,
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parenting style, individuality, connectedness.
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Individuality consists of
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self assertion and seprateness
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Self assertion
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ability to have commounication and a point of view
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separateness
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express how one is different from others
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Connectedness consists of
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mutuality and permeability
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mutuality
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sensitivity and respect for others views
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Permeability
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openens of other's views.
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Strong connections, weak individuality
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foreclosure
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Ethnic and gender ID
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Aspect of self that includes sense of membership in ethnic/gender group
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What's involved in ethnic and gender ID?
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Bicultural ID, contexts, change, emotional develop.
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Bicultural ID
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Diff culture at home
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Emotional competence
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involves awareness understanding and regulation of emotions, linked with academic sucess.
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The big 5 factors of personality
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openess to exp, conscientousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism (emotional stability)
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Temperament
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an individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding
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3 traditional basic types of temperament
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early, diffcult, slow to warm
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New temperamnet categories
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positive affect and approach, negative affectivity, effortful control.
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Developmental connections and contexts
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easy, difficult, inhibit temp
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Inhibit temp
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still ok, delayed, less assertive
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Goodness of fit
Definition
Match between an indiviual's temperant indiviual must cope with
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