The Brain
This is the set of cognitive processes that support goal-directed behavior, self-monitoring, and impulse and emotional control.
executive functioning
This model examines crucial questions about the effect of risk factors on the domestic household.
family stress model
Erikson's third developmental stage that takes takes place during the preschool years.
initiative vs guilt
In this kind of play, children work together to achieve a common goal.
cooperative play
These people are the biggest influences in adolescent sexual behavior.
peers
This concept within the control processes that require the brain to organize, prioritize, and direct mental operations is the ability to focus on specific stimuli while ignoring or suppressing other relevant stuff.
selective attention
This concept of Piaget's describes the ability to understand that an object's quantity remains the same even when it's appearance changes.
conservation
In this stage of Erikson's, adolescents explore their independence and develop a sense of self. They also experiment with different roles, values, and beliefs.
identity vs role confusion
The ability to adapt to and recover from difficult life experiences such as setbacks, crises, or trauma. It can be developed and practiced.
resilience
This concept in adolescence involves teens thinking intensely about themselves and what other people think of them. It can lead to interpretation of everyone else's behavior as a personal judgement.
imaginary audience
Increased amount of this stress hormone assists in people remembering more details about stressful events.
Cortisol
The notion that two networks exist within the brain, one for intuitive and one for analytical processing of stimuli
Dual processing perspective
This concept begins in infancy and toddlerhood as they develop a sense of themselves from others. By middle childhood, it contains ideas about self that include intelligence, personality, abilities, and sense of identity.
self-concept
This type of test assesses a person's skills, abilities, and potential to succeed in specific roles or activities. It is different than achievement tests that measure a student's knowledge and skills in a specific subject area.
aptitude test
A structured system of communication that uses various elements to convey meaning. These can include tone, speech events, and selection of specific grammar or word use.
linguistic codes
This area of the brain plays a key role in sleep regulation and impacts of sleep deprivation.
prefrontal cortex
The Piaget's final stage characterized by logic and the ability to think about abstract ideas.
formal operational stage
The name for a socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions. College is a common example for delay in vocational identity.
moratorium
A public health approach to stopping child maltreatment before it happens. Works to address the root causes of child abuse and neglect.
primary prevention
This term describes how peers can make it easier to do both the right and the wrong thing or both destructive and constructive behaviors in one another.
Facilitation
Puberty begins with a hormonal signal from what part of the brain? It then travels to the pituitary gland, which signals the adrenal glands and the ovaries or testes to produce additional hormones.
hypothalamus
The concept within Information-Processing theory by which a sequence of thoughts and actions is repeated until no conscious thought is required.
automatization
A characteristic of preoperational thought whereby a young child thinks that nothing changes. Whatever is now has always been and always will be.
static reasoning
A parenting style that uses verbal communication to help children learn how to behavior appropriately and understand the consequences of their actions.
induction
These are the four main parenting styles. Parent's often use one predominately, but may also use different styles in different situations.
Authoritarian
Permissive
Uninvolved
Authoritative