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| The study of changes that occur as an individual |
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| An infants clinging response to a touch on the palm of his or her hand. |
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| An infants response in turning toward the source of touching that occurs anywhere around the mouth. |
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| The internally programmed growth of a child |
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| The kind of verbal utterances in which words are left out, but the meaning is usually clear |
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| Framework a person uses to make sense of the world |
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| The process of fitting objects and experiences into ones schemas |
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| The adjustment of ones schemas to include newly observed events and experiences |
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| A childs realization that an object exists even when he or she cannot see it or touch it |
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| The intellectual ability of a child to picture something in his or her mind |
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| Inherited tendency of some new born animals to follow the first moving object they see |
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| A specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned |
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| Parents attempt to control, shape, and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of children |
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| Democratic/Authoritative Family |
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| Children and adolescents participate in decisions affecting their lives |
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| Permissive/Laissez Faire Family |
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| Children and adolescents have the final say; parents are less controlling and have a nonpunishing. |
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| The process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born and will live |
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| The process by which a child adopts the values and principles of the values same sex parent |
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| The process of redirecting sexual impules into learning tasks |
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| Childrens play that involves assuming adult roles, thus enabling the child to experience different points of view. |
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