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| a process of change whereby cognitive processes mature sufficiently to allow a person to solve problems that were previously unsolvable |
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| the process of modifying to meet new, changing, or different conditions |
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| earned behaviors that assist an individual to adjust to the environment |
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| refers to the manner in which people learn to think, reason, and use language |
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| any reaction that serves to protect against something physically or psychologically harmful |
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| an individual's increasing capacity and skill in functioning, related to growth |
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| skill or behavior pattern learned during stages of development |
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| includes consciousness and memory which serves to mediate between primitive instinctual drives (id), internal social prohibitions (superego), and reality |
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| immobilization or the inability of the personality to proceed to the next developmental stage because of anxiety |
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| physical change and increase in size |
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| urge or desire for sexual activity |
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| relating to right and wrong |
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| the way a person perceives the requirements necessary for people to live together and how he or she responds to them |
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| the outward expression of the inner self |
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| the conscience of personality; the source of feelings of guilt, shame, and inhibition |
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| the mental life of a person of which the person is unaware |
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