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| family allowance (or child allowance) |
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| a cash benefit to families provided by the government to help offset the cost of raising children |
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| according to freud, this is our conscience, which draws upon our cultural values and norms to help us understand why we cant have everything we want. |
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| Piaget's first stage of cognitive development (from birth to age 2) in which infants and toddlers understnd the world primarily through touch, sucking, listening, and looking. |
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| Piaget's second stage of cognitive development, occuring from age 2 through 7, as the child learns language, symbolic play, and symbolic drawing but does not grasp abstract concepts. |
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| concrete operational thought |
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| Piaget's third stage of cognitive development, which occurs between the ages of 7 and 12, when chidren begin to see the casual connections in their surroundings, and can manipulate, categories, classification systems, and heirarchies in groups. |
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| cooleys suggestion that we come to see ourselves as others perceive and respond to us. |
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| according to mead, the process of mentally assuming the role of another person to understand the world from their point of view and to anticipate their response to us. |
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| developed by alfred bendura, the theory that behaviot is learned through modeling and reinforcement. |
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| racial (or ethnic) socialization |
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| teaching minority children about prejudice, descrimination, and the coping skills necessary to develop and maintain a strong and healthy self-image. |
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| authoritative parenting style |
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| a parenting style that is demanding and maintains high levels of control over the children, but is also warm and receptive |
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| permissive parenting style |
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| a parenting style that places few controls or demands on the child. |
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| authoritarian parenting style |
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| a parenting style that is strict, punitive, and not very warm |
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