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- an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex (homosexual orientation) or the other sex (heterosexual orientation)
- Giving just enough help to a learner for them to understand
- belief that inanimate objects have human feelings
- a set of expected behaviors for males or for females.
- a progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and, finally, physical functioning
- symptoms that include a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, including memory, thinking, and judgment, that is often accompanied by personality changes
- Gap between what a learner has already mastered and what he/she can achieve when provided with educational support
- a condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
- not committed to an identity but actively exploring possible ones
- Not committed to an identity and not exploring possible identities
- Known for his 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development
- Kohlberg's most famous moral problem; answers used to create his stages ((expensive drug for wife-steal or let her die?)
- commitment to values, beliefs, and goals following a period of exploration
- for some people in modern cultures, a period from the late teens to mid-twenties, bridging the gap between adolescent dependence and full independence and responsible adulthood.
- researcher who developed a model of parenting styles that included authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive
- researcher who focused on critical attachment periods in baby birds, a concept he called imprinting
- american psychologist who established the first psychology research laboratory in the U.S. and studied the effects of adolescence on education
- studied how different attachment styles affected kids; Strange Situation Experiment
- any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy.
- newborn baby; immune system weak; born with reflexes