Psych MIDTERM Chapter 9: Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Roles

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authoritative parenting

allows for independence with boundaries

authoritarian parenting

strict, child has little to no autonomy

assimilation

relating new information to existing schemas

accomadation

seeking to creating new schemas 

concrete operational stage

7-11 years of age; logical reasoning unlocked

preoperational stage

2-7 years of age; understanding objects can undergo superficial changes

formal operational stage

11-15 to adulthood; thinking abstractly, hypothetically, and logically

nature

biological inheritance

nurture

social and environmental changes

secure attachment

infant cries when caregiver leaves, but remains calm and happy when caregiver comes back

connectionism or parallel distributed processing (PDP)

each memory requires multiple neurons 

flashbulb memory

recollection of significantly emotional events

episodic memory

personal experience; mental diary

semantic memory

general knowledge; long-term

autobiographical memory

personal recollection of life experiences