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• Enuresis is the repeated urination in bed.
• Gross Motor Skills are physical skills that involve the large muscles.
• Fine Motor Skills are physical skills that involve the small muscles.
• Systems of Actions are increasingly complex combinations of skills.
• Handedness is the preference for using a particular hand.
• Preoperational Stage is Piaget’s second major stage of cognitive development.
• Symbolic Function is Piaget’s term for the ability to use mental representation.
• Pretend Play, also known as Fantasy Play, involves imaginary people and situations.
• Transduction is Piaget’s term for a preoperational child’s tendency to mentally link particular phenomena.
• Animism is the tendency to attribute life to objects that are not alive.
• Centration is the tendency of preoperational children to focus on one aspect.
• Decenter is to think simultaneously about several aspects of a situation.
• Egocentrism is the inability to consider another’s point of view.
• Conservation is the awareness that 2 objects that are equal according to a certain measure.
• Ego - Resiliency - Dynamic capacity to modify one’s level of ego - control in response to environmental and contextual infl uences
• Triangular Theory of Love - Sternberg’s theory that patterns of love hinge on the balance among three elements: int imacy, passion and commitment
• Hypological Approach - Theoretical approach that identifies broad personality types or styles
• Trait Models - Theoretical models of personality development that focus on mental, emotional, temperamental, and behavioral traits or attributes
• Cohabitation - Is an increasingly common lifestyle in which an unmarried couple involved in a se xual relationship live together
• Big Five: Neuroticism, extraversion, Openness to E xperience, Conscientiousness and Aggreableness
• Five Factor Model - Theoretical model of personality developed and tested by Costa and Mcrae, based on the Big Five factors
• Normative Life Events - In the timing of events model commonly expected life experiences that occur at customary times
• Ego - Control - Self - control and the self - regulation of impulses
• Inti macy vs Isolation - Erikson’s sixth stage of Psychosocial Development Timing of Events Model - Theoretical model of personality development that describes adult psychosocial development as a response to the expected or unexpected occurrence and timing of life events
• Fictive Kin - Friends who are considered and behave like family members
• Social Clock - Set of cultural norms or expectations for the times of life
• Irr eversibility is the failure to understand that an operation can go in two or more directions.
• Theory of Mind is the awareness and understanding of mental processes.
• Encoding is the process by which information is prepared for long term storage.
• Storage is the retention of information.
• Retrieval is the process by which information is accessed or recalled from memory storage.
• Sensory Memory is the initial, brief temporary storage of sensory information.
• Working Memory is short term storage of information being actively processed.
• Executive Function is the conscious control of thought and emotion and actions.
• Long Term Memory is the storage of virtually unlimited capacity that holds information for long periods.
• Central Executive is an element of working memory that controls the processing of information.
• Recall is the ability to produce.
• Recognition is the ability to identify.
• Generic Memory is memory that produces scripts.
• Variable Rate Theories explain biological aging as a result of processes that involve damage to biological systems and that vary from person to person.