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Adaptive behavior

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Thoughts, feelings, and actions
that allow children to develop social, emotional, and
behavioral competence over time and meet the changing demands of the environment

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Alleles

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Alternative forms of a gene that are inherited or

arise by mutation

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Attachment

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The affective bond between caregiver and

child that serves to protect and reassure the child in times of danger or uncertainty

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Basal ganglia

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Brain regions located under the cortex; they
help to control movement, filter incoming information,
relay information to other regions, and regulate attention and emotions

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Behavioral epigenetics

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A scientific field of study that

examines the ways environmental experiences can affect genetic expression and be passed from one generation to the next

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Behavioral genetics

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An area of scientific study that
examines the relationship between genes and behavior; chiefly interested in determining the heritability of traits or disorders

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Brain stem

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An evolutionarily old region of the brain
responsible for many basic life-sustaining functions;
consists of the medulla, pons, and midbrain

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Cerebellum

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A brain region located posteriorly (in the

back); chiefly responsible for balance and coordination

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Cerebral cortex

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The outermost layer of the brain,

consisting of the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes

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Chromosomes

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Threadlike strands of genes organized in 23

pairs in typically developing humans

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Classical conditioning

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A type of learning in which two
stimuli are paired together in time, and a previously
neutral stimulus comes to elicit an automatic,
unconditioned response

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Cognitive development

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Changes in a person’s capacity for perception, thought, language, and problem-solving

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Concordance

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Used by behavioral geneticists to describe
the probability that two people will both have a certain
characteristic or disorder given that one has the
characteristic

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Developmental pathways

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Possible courses or trajectories of children’s behavioral, cognitive, or social–emotional
development over time, ranging from adaptation to
maladaptation

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Developmental psychopathology

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A multidisciplinary approach to studying adaptive and maladaptive development across the lifespan. According to this perspective, development is shaped by the complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social–cultural factors over time

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Developmental tasks

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Behavioral, cognitive, or social–emotional challenges that children face at each age or developmental level

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Diathesis-stress model

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A broad theory that posits that a child will exhibit a disorder when she has both (1) an underlying genetic risk for the disorder and (2) an environmental experience or life event that triggers its onset

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Ecological systems theory

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A theory of child development that consists of concentric nested systems, each progressively more distal from the child: microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem

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Emotional development

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The emergence and refinement of

a person’s experience, expression, understanding, and regulation of feelings

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Emotion regulation

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The processes that people use
to recognize, label, and control our feelings and our
expression of these feelings

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Equifinality

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Describes the phenomenon in which children
with different developmental histories show a similar
developmental outcome

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Gene

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Thousands of nucleotides that form part of a
chromosome; they are transferred from parent to
offspring and influence the characteristics of those
offspring

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Gene-environment correlation

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The idea that our environments are partially influenced by our genotypes; there are three types of correlations: (1) passive, (2) evocative, and (3) active

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Genotype

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The genetic code that we inherit from our

parents

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Goodness-of-fit
The compatibility of a child’s temperament with the features of his or her environment, especially parenting behavior
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Heterotypic continuity
The phenomenon in which symptoms change over time, but their underlying pattern remains the same (e.g., a boy’s ADHD symptoms change from childhood to adulthood, but he still has underlying problems with inhibition)
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Histones
Proteins found in cells; they act as spools | around which DNA winds; they regulate the expression of genes, turning them “on” or “off”
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Homotypic continuity
The phenomenon in which disorders persist over time relatively unchanged (e.g., a boy with intellectual disability continues to have this disorder as an adult)
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Internal working model
In attachment theory, a mental representation of a caregiver that helps an individual cope with psychosocial stress
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Learning theory
A broad explanation for the causes of behavior that relies on classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and modeling
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Limbic system
Located deep within the brain, responsible for emotional processing and memory; consists of the amygdala, hippocampus, and several other structures
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Maladaptive behavior
Thoughts, feelings, and actions that interfere with children’s social, emotional, and behavioral competence or do not meet the changing demands of the environment
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Molecular genetics
An area of scientific study that examines the relationship between specific genes and the presence or absence of characteristics and disorders
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Multifinality
Describes the phenomenon in which children with similar early experiences show different social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes
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Neural plasticity
A term used to describe the brain’s capacity to change its structure or functioning in response to environmental experience
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Neurons
Nerve cells; consist of dendrites, a cell body | (soma), an axon, and terminal endings; relay information within themselves using electrical signals
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Neurotransmitters
Chemical messengers that allow | neurons to communicate with each other; examples are dopamine and serotonin
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Nonshared environmental factors
Experiences that differ between siblings (e.g., different age, gender, friends, sports, or hobbies)
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Operant conditioning
A type of learning in which an action is associated with an environmental consequence, either reinforcement or punishment
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Parenting types
A four-part classification of parenting behavior based on its degree of responsiveness and demandingness: authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, uninvolved
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Phenotype
The observable expression of our genetic endowment
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Probabilistic epigenesis
A principle of developmental psychopathology; refers to the manner in which genetic, biological, and social–cultural factors interact over time to influence (but not absolutely determine) development
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Protective factors
Influences that buffer the negative effects of risks on children’s development and promote adaptive functioning
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Punishment (learning theory)
In operant conditioning, an environmental consequence that decreases the likelihood of future behavior
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Reinforcement (learning theory)
In operant conditioning, an environmental consequence that increases the likelihood of future behavior
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Resilience
The tendency of some children to develop social, emotional, and behavioral competence despite the presence of multiple risk factors
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Risk factors
Influences on development that interfere with the acquisition of competencies or compromise children’s ability to adapt to their environments
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Shared environmental factors
Environmental experiences common to siblings (e.g., same parents, house, school)
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Social cognition
Refers to a person’s capacity to think about social situations and to perceive, interpret, and solve interpersonal problems
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Social learning theory
The idea that people learn | from one another through observation, imitation, and modeling
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Strange situation
A laboratory-based test of infant–caregiver attachment; can be used to determine attachment security
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Synaptogenesis
An increase in the number of neurons and connections between neurons; arises from maturation and experience
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Temperament
An inborn tendency to organize and react to behavior in response to environmental stimuli

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