Psychology-Chapter 3 Terms
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- authoritarian family
- parents attempt to control, shape and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of children in accordance with a set of code conduct
- permissive/ laissez-faire family
- children have the final say; parents are less controlling and have a nonpunishing, accepting attitude toward children
- role taking
- children's play that involves assuming adult roles, thus enabling the child to experience different points of view
- imprinting
- inherited tendencies or responses that are displayed by newborn animals when they encounter new stimuli in their environment
- object permanence
- a child's realization that an object exists even when he or she cannot see or touch it
- developmental psychology
- the study of changes that occur as an individual matures
- egocentric
- a young child's inability to understand another person's perspective
- grasping reflex
- an infant's clinging response to a touch on the palm of his or her hand
- telegraphic speech
- the kind of verbal utterances in which words are left out, but the meaning is usually clear
- critical period
- a specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned
- conservation
- the principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed
- accommodation
- the adjustment of one's schemas to include newly observed events and experiences
- democratic/authoritative family
- adolescents participate in decisions affecting their lives
- sublimation
- the process of redirecting sexual impulses into learning
- rooting reflex
- an infant's response in turning toward the source of touching that occurs anywhere around his or her mouth
- schema
- a specific plan for knowing the world
- socialization
- the process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born and will live
- maturation
- the internally programmed growth of a child
- representational thought
- the intellectual ability of a child to picture something in his or her mind
- identification
- the process by which a child adopts the values and principles of the same-sex parent
- assimilation
- the process of fitting objects and experiences into one's schemas