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to evolve into another group
assimilation
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parenting style when the parents are rule oriented; strict
authoritative parenting
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the understanding that the physical properties of object, such as the number of items in a cluster or the amount of liquid in a glass, can remain the same even when their forms or appearance changes
conservation
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cognitive skills and specific knowledge of information acquired over a lifetime, dependent on education
crystalized inteligence
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in primates, the innate pleasure derived from close physical contact, basis of infant's first attachment
contact comfort
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seeing the world from only your own point of view; the inabiliy to take another person's perspective
egocentric thinking
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the stage of pregnacy starting at conception and lasting till two weeks
embryonic
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the capasity for a deductive reason and the ability to new information to solve problems independent of education declines with old age
fluid inteligence
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a cognative scheme(mental network) of knowledge, beliefs, metaphors, and expectations about what it means to be a male or female
fender schema
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the process by which chikdren learn the abilities, interests, personality traits, and behaviors associated with being masculine and feminine
gender typing
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a method of child rearing in which the parent appeals to the child's own resourses,abilities, sense of responsability, and the feeling for othersin correcing misbehavior
induction
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according to many psycholinguists, an innate mental madule that allows young children to develop laguage if they are exposed to an adequite sampling of converstaion
language acquisition device
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the unfolding of genetically influenced behavior and physical characteristics
maturation
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the cessation of menstration and the production of ova
menopause
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automatic behaviors that are necesssary for survival
motor reflexes
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the understanding which develpos throughout the first year, that an object continues to exist even when you can no longer see it
object permanence
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the sage in which we do it because it is the right thing, we wanna do it
postconventional level of morality
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a method of parent rearing in which the parents use punishment and authority to correct misbehavior
power assertion
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the age at which a person becomes capable of dexual reproduction
puberty
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other characteristics caused by sex horemones
secondary sex characteriatics
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the distress that most children develop, at about 6-8 months, when their primary caregiver temporarilty leaves them with others
seperation anxiety
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cansits of norms governing what most other people of the same age and historical generation are expected to do
social clock
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the child's first word combinations, which omit unnecessary words(like a telegram)
telegraphic speech
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who wrote the stages of adulthood
eric erikson
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who developed the cognative stage
Jean Piaget
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