Accommodation | In Piaget's theory, adjustment to new information
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Assimilation | In Piaget's theory, incorporation of new information into existing knowledge
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Behavioural and social cognitive approach | The theory that behaviour, environment, and person/cognitive factors are important in understanding development
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Congruence | The relationship between a persons ideal self and real self
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Eclectic theoretical orientation | Does not follow one theoretical approach but selects from each theory whatever is considered the best in it
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Ecological approach | Bronfenbrenners environmental systems theory that focuses on five environmental systems
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Eriksons theory | Eight stages of psychosocial development unfold throughout the human life span.
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Ethology | An approach that stresses that behaviour is strongly influenced by biology, tied to evolution, and characterized by critical or sensitive periods
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Humanists | Psychologists who believe people work hard to become the best they can possibly be
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Incongruity | The gap between the real self and the ideal self
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Information-processing approach | Individuals manipulate information, monitor it, strategize about it
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Piagets theory | Children actively construct their understanding of the world and go through four stages of cognitive development.
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Psychoanalytic approach | Development is primarily unconscious; it is important to analyze symbolic meanings of behaviour; early experience is important to development
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Vygotskys theory | A sociocultural cognitive theory that emphasizes the role of language and social relations
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