Week 24 #1 Flashcards

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Autobiographical reasoning

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The ability, typically developed in adolescence, to derive substantive conclusions about the self from analyzing one’s own personal experiences

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Ego

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observing outside reality, engaging in rational thought, and coping with the competing demands of inner desires and moral standards

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Identity

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  • a developmental task for late adolescence and young adulthood
  • exploring alternative roles, values, goals, and relationships
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Narrative identity

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when people craft self-defining stories that reconstruct the past and imagine the future to explain how the person came to be the person that he or she is becoming

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Reflexivity

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The idea that the self reflects back upon itself; that the I (the knower, the subject) encounters the Me (the known, the object)

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Redemptive narratives

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Life stories that affirm the transformation from suffering to an enhanced status or state

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Self as autobiographical author

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The sense of the self as a storyteller who reconstructs the past and imagines the future to articulate an integrative narrative that provides life with some measure of temporal continuity and purpose

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self-esteem

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  • The extent to which a person feels that he or she is worthy and good.
  • determined by the success or failure that the motivated agent experiences in pursuit of valued goals
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Self as motivated agent

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the sense of the self as an intentional force that strives to achieve goals, plans, values and projects

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Self as social actor

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The sense of the self as an embodied actor whose social performances may be construed in terms of more or less consistent self-ascribed traits and social roles

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The Age 5-to-7 Shift

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Cognitive and social changes that occur in the early elementary school years that result in the child’s developing a more purposeful, planful, and goal-directed approach to life, setting the stage for the emergence of the self as a motivated agent.

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The “I”

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The self as knower, the sense of the self as a subject who encounters itself (the me)

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The “Me”

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The self as known, the sense of the self as the object or target of the I’s knowledge and work

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Theory of mind

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  • Emerging around the age of 4
  • The human capacity to understand minds, a capacity that is made up of a collection of concepts and processes
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Confidante

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A trusted person with whom secrets and vulnerabilities can be shared

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Correlation

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A measure of the association between two variables, or how they go together

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Health

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The complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being—not just the absence of disease or infirmity

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Health behaviours

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  • Behaviors that are associated with better health
  • exercising, not smoking, and wearing a seat belt while in a vehicle
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Machiavellianism

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Being cunning, strategic, or exploitative in one’s relationships.

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Narcissism

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A pervasive pattern of grandiosity, a need for admiration, and lack of empathy

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Objective social variables

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Targets of research interest that are factual and not subject to personal opinions or feelings

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Ostracism

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Being excluded or ignored by others

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Operationalization

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The process of defining a concept so that it can be measured

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Psychopathy

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  • Synonymous with psychopathic personality
  • designates mental disorders presumed to be heritable
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Shunning

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The act of avoiding or ignoring a person, and withholding all social interaction for a period of time.