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| Two general parenting dimensions |
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Warm & responsive vs. hostile & uninvolved
Extreme control vs. no control |
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high control
low warmth and responsiveness |
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greater control
warm and responsive |
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| Varying Parenting Styles causes |
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| Different SES and cultures |
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| telling children what to do, when, and explaining why |
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helping children master social and emotional skills
explaining links between behavior and emotions |
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learning by observing and imitating what parents do and say
EFFECTIVE |
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| Temporarily stops behavior but does not teach RIGHT behavior |
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First born are smarter and likelier to go to college
Later born are more popular and care less about parents |
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| Effect of divorce on children |
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depends on children's age
Children fare better with same sex parent
influences negative marriage attitude on children |
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| ability to respond adaptively and resourcefully to new situations |
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| voluntary relationship of two people involving mutual liking |
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| girls especially often discuss their personal problems |
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| small group of child or adolescent friends similar in attitudes, sex, race, and age |
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| groups with a leader to whom others defer |
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| using aggression to achieve an explicit goal |
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| unprovoked aggression used to intimidate or harass |
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| hurting others by undermining their social relationships |
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| : negative view of others based on their membership in a different group |
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| understanding second-order beliefs, as in “he thinks that she thinks …” |
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| Concrete-operational period |
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| Can perform mental operations |
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| Formal-operational period |
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| Can reason abstractly and hypothetically |
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| the temporary storage and use of information that one needs to perform a task |
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| the storehouse for memory that is permanent and of unlimited capacity |
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| being aware of how perception, cognition, intentions, and knowledge work, and adjusting strategies related to each |
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| understanding connections among goals, strategies, monitoring, and outcomes |
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| : identifying goals, selecting effective strategies, and monitoring accurately |
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| specialists trained in measuring psychological characteristics, such as intelligence and personality |
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Nine types of intelligences
Each has own developmental trajectory and is regulated by distinct brain regions |
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| Sternberg: Theory of Successful Intelligence |
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using one’s abilities skillfully to achieve personal goals
using one’s abilities skillfully to achieve personal goals
Analytic
Creative
Practical |
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| reminding the self of important values and why these are important |
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exceptional talent in areas such as art, music, writing, or dance
130 or higher IQ |
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| using available information to find a standard, correct answer |
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| thinking in novel and unusual directions to find many answers instead of a standard or correct answer |
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| Children with Intellectual Disability risk factors |
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Biomedical .
Social
Behavioral
Educational |
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| Three common learning disabilities |
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Developmental dyslexia (aka reading disability)
Impaired reading comprehension
Developmental dyscalculia (aka mathematical disability) |
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| the process of identifying a unique pattern of letters |
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| the process of extracting meaning from a sequence of words |
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| knowing sounds by letter combinations |
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| What 2 changes happens during puberty? |
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height, weight
reproductive organs/sexual chars. |
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| When is brain done growing? |
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| 25 years old (earlier in girls than guys) |
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| Stress causes Menarche to occur earlier |
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| Parental investment theory |
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experiences with quality of fathering determine puberty’s timing
(good fathers--- delay in puberty) |
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| Body image during puberty |
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| Boys are happy, girls are critical of body |
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| Nutrition deficit effects on puberty |
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| moody, risk of diseases (girls need more iron for period) |
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| How many boys use steroids? |
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Africans- firearms
Whites/Girls-Natural causes/auto accidents |
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| Illusion of invulnerability |
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thinking others will be harmed, but not the self
(limbic (pleasure) bigger than frontal cortex (planning)) |
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6 stages of moral principles
(cannot skip stages) |
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| Cultural differences in Morals |
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| some have different moral principles and resolve things differently |
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| What promotes moral reasoning |
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exposure to morally advanced behavior
religious involvement |
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identity achievement vs. identity (role) confusion involves adolescents’
balancing between selecting a single self vs. trying out many possible selves |
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| unquestioned acceptance of parental ideas or beliefs is commitment’s source |
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| little exploration & commitment of identity, which can lead to social isolation and withdrawal, but little anxiety |
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| still actively exploring identity, with unpredictability creating great anxiety |
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| obtained at different times for different aspects of identity |
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| adolescents’ self-absorption |
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| adolescents thinking of their experiences and feelings as unique |
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older adolescents
greater self esteem
identifies with mainstream culture |
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| Influences on adolescents self esteem |
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When skilled in values
they believe peers and parents like them
parents are open |
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