PSYC 4176 Chapter : Chapter 2
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Attachment: social-emotional bond which occurs between individuals; often used to describe the parent/child connection. Contributing causes: factors that are not core reasons for a disorder but which may contribute to or exacerbate a disorder. Developmental tasks: cultural age-expectations that are applied to young people. Differential susceptibility hypothesis: theory that reactivity is linked to a more general sensitivity to environmental context highly reactive youths. Direct effect: when a variable leads directly to an outcome with no influence are more malleable to a variety of experiences from other variables. Disorganized attachment: type of attachment which may be indicative of mistreatment or poor parenting, reflecting the lack of a consistent strategy to organize behavior under stress situations: routine is key to parenting, parenting groups. Development: ongoing change in biological, psychological, and sociocultural variables. Emotion: the bodily reaction that reflects mood, temperament, and personality as well as biological factors.
