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| the field that studies the way thought, feeling, and behavior develop through the life span |
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| biologically based development |
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| periods of special sensitvity to specific types of learning that shape the capacity for future development |
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| developmental periods during which environmental input is especially important, but not absolutely required, for future development in the domain |
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| relatively discrete steps through which everyone progresses in the same sequence |
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| predictable changes in interpersonal thought, feeling, and behavior |
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| enduring affectional ties that children form with their primary caregivers and that become the basis for later love relationships |
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| the tendency of young animals of certain species to follow an animal to which they were exposed during a sensitive period early in their lives |
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| distress at seperation from attachment figures |
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| response to seperation in which infants welcome the mother's return and seek closeness to her |
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| response to seperation in which infants ignore the mother when she returns |
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| ambivalent attachment style |
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| response to seperation in which infants who are angry and rejecting sinultaneously indicate a clear desire to be close to the mother |
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| disorganized attachment style |
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| response to seperation in which infant behave in contradictory ways, indictating helpless efforts to elicit soothing responses from the attachment figure |
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| patterns of mental representation, emotion, and proximity-seeking in adults related to childhood attachent patterns |
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| in Erickson's theory, the stages in the development of the person as a social being |
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| challenge that is normative for a particular period of life |
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| basic trust versus mistrust |
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| in Erickson's theory, the stage in which infants come to trust others or to perceive the social world as unfriendly or unreliable |
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