ch.4 FAODP
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- stages of the life cycle: infancy, toddlerhood, childhoo, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, later adulthood
- age-stages
- feelings or emotions about a fact, object, or activity
- attitudes
- the way people act both physically and mentally
- behavior
- type of learning wherein one can produce a very strong physiological effect (such as fear) even if there is nothing external to react to
- classical conditioning
- to be preoccupied with the welfare of others to such an extent that your own needs are severely neglected
- co-dependence
- ways that people think and the frameworks people use to understand themselves and the world around them
- cognition
- shifts in behavior and functioning in different life stages. Changes may be internally produces (as in the shift from prepuberty to puberty), or triggered by environmental demands (e.g. retirement)
- developmental change
- one's anticipations about outcomes, involving both cognitive (thought) and affective (feeling) components; notions about what will happen, based upon constructions and reconstructions of past happenings
- expectancy
- set of objects combined in a group
- grouping
- acquisition of knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study
- learning
- imitation of the actions of other people who are typically in positions of admiration and power
- modeling
- actios which work to suppres (or push down) specific activities; also, punishment
- negative reinforcement
- internally organized system of individual characteristics which guides and directs our behavior, and which has some degree of consistency across situations and stability over fairly long periods of time
- personality
- experiencing effects based on what one thinks a substance should do, rather than on its pharmacological action
- placebo effects
- presentation of a positive (or negative) stimulus that occurs along with something we are doing
- reinforcement
- an organized structure of ideas and beliefs about who one is
- self-concept
- stylistic characteristics of behavior; HOW Joe or Jane usually act - not what they are doing
- temperament
- elements in our lives that we hold inherently valuable, such as vamily, education, health, etc.
- values