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In Diana Buamrind's framework, how parents align on two dimensions of child rearing: nurturing (or child-centeredness) and discipline (or structure & rules).
Parenting style
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In parenting-styles framework, the best possible child-rearing style, in which parents rank high on both nurturance and discipline, proving both love and clear family rules.
Authoritative parents
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In parenting-styles framework, a type of childrearing in which parents provide plenty of rules but rank low on child-centeredness, stressing unquestioning obedience.
Authoritarian parents
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In parenting-styles framework, a type of childrearing in which parents provide few rules but rank high on child-centeredness, being extremely loving but providing little discipline.
Permissive parents
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In the parenting-styles framework, the worst child-rearing approach, in which parents provide little discipline and little nurturing or love.
Rejecting-neglecting parents
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Children who rebound from serious early life traumas to construct successful adult lives.
Resilient children
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Among immigrants, the tendency to become more similar in terms of attitudes & practices to the mainstream culture after time spent living in a new society.
Acculturation
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The use of physical force to discipline a child.
Corporal punishment
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Any act that seriously endangers a child's physical or emotional well-being.
Child maltreatment
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Measures that evaluate a child's knowledge in specific school-related areas.
Achievement tests
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The standard intelligence test used in childhood, consisting of a Verbal Scale (questions for the child to answer) a Performance Scale (materials for the child to manipulate), and a variety of subtests.
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
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The label for significantly impaired intellectual functioning, defined as when a child (or adult) has an IQ of 70 or below accompanied by evidence of deficits in learning abilities.
Mentally retarded
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The label for any impairment in language or any deficit related to listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, or understanding mathematics; diagnosed when a score on an intelligence test is much higher than a child's performance on achievement tests.
Specific learning disability
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A learning disability that is characterized by reading difficulties, lack of fluency, and poor word recognition that is often genetic in origin.
Dyslexia
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The label for superior intellectual functioning characterized by an IQ score of 130 or above, showing that a child ranks in the top 2% of their age group.
Gifted
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In measurement terminology, a basic criterion of a test's accuracy that scores must be fairly similar when a person takes the test more than once.
Reliability
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In measurement terminology, a basic criterion for a test's accuracy involving whether that measure reflects the real-world quality it is supposed to measure.
Validity
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Charles Spearman's term for a general intelligence factor that he claimed underlies all cognitive activities.
"g"
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In Robert Sternberg's framework on successful intelligence, the facet of intelligence involving performing well on academic-type problems.
Analytic intelligence
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In Robert Sternberg's framework on successful intelligence, the facet of intelligence involved in producing novel ideas or innovative work.
Creative intelligence
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In Robert Sternberg's framework on successful intelligence, the facet of intelligence involved in knowing how to act competently in real-world situations.
Practical intelligence
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In Robert Sternberg's framework on successful intelligence, the optimal form of cognition, involving having a good balance of analytic, creative, and practical intelligence.
Successful intelligence
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In Howard Gardner's perspective on intelligence, the principle that there are 8 separate kinds of intelligence - verbal, mathematical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, naturalist - plus a possible 9th form, called spiritual intelligence.
Multiple intelligences theory
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The drive to act based on the pleasure of taking that action in itself, not for an external reinforcer or reward.
Intrinsic motivation
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The drive to take an action because that activity offers external reinforcers such as praise, money, or a good grade.
Extrinsic motivation
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