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        | fitting objects and experiences into ones schema |  | 
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        | a conceptual framework; what a person uses to make sense of the world |  | 
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        | the adjustment of ones schema to new experiences and events |  | 
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        | a child's realization that an object exists even when they can not touch it. |  | 
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        | a child's ability to picture something in their mind |  | 
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        | the idea that a quantity does not change when its appearance does |  | 
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        | a young child's inability to look at something from another point of view |  | 
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        | inherited tendencies displayed by newborn animals |  | 
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        | parents control the behavior and attitude of their children |  | 
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        | children and parents participate in decisions that affect their lives |  | 
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        | parents are less controlling; children have final say |  | 
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        | the process in which the child adopts the beliefs of their same-sex parent |  | 
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        | children's play that involves taking adult roles |  | 
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        | redirecting sexual impulses into learning tasks |  | 
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        | the process of learning behaviors and rules of a culture in which the child will live |  | 
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