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Keywords in psychology

• Keywords:-
• A
• Altratial: Animals not born at an advanced stage so need help to survive
• B
• Bidogical: Is it Nature or Nurture
• Bodily Contact: Touching to create a bond
• C
• Caregiverese: Adjusting your tone to suit the infant
• Classical conditioning: Learning through behaviour
• The critical period: It is a 4 to 24 hour period where infants must attach to a caregiver

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• Deprivation: Long time separation such as a death
• E
• Ecological validity: Where did it happen?
• F
• G
• H
• I
• Imprinting: A form of attachment where the infant attaches to the first moving thing/object they see
• Interactional synchrony: Infants copy the caregiver’s actions ‘in rhythm’
• J

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• K
• L
• M
• Mimicry: Infants mimic/ copy facial expressions of the carer
• N
• Nature:
• Nurture:
• Negative reinforcement: Punishments
• O
• Operant conditioning: Learning through consequences

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• P
• Population validity: Is it generalised
• Positive reinforcement: Rewarding
• Precorcial: Animals born at an advanced stage so don’t need help to survive
• Prime caregiver: The infant’s main caregiver
• Privation: Never had formed an attachment
• Q
• R
• Reciprocity: Copy or interact through behaviour
• S
• Separation: Short time of being apart

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• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z