| A | B |
|---|
| aggression | Behavior intended to harm another person or an object. |
| authoritarian parenting style | A style of parenting that is low in nurturance and communication, but high in control and maturity demands. |
| authoritative parentying style | A style of parenting that is high in nurturance, maturity demands, control, and communication. |
| cross-gender behavior | Behavior that is atypical for one's own sex but typical for the opposite sex. |
| emotional regulation | The ability to control emotional states and emotion-related behavior. |
| empathy | The ability to identify with another person's emotional state. |
| extended family | A social network of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and so on. |
| gender | The psychological and social associates and implications of biological sex. |
| gender constancy | The understanding that gender is a component of the self that is not altered by external appearance. |
| gender identity | The ability to correctly label oneself and others as male or female. |
| gender schema theory | An information-processing approach to gender concept development that asserts that people use a schema for each gender to process information about themselves and others. |
| gender stability | The understanding that gender is a stable, life-long characteristic. |
| hostile agression | Aggression used to hurt another person or gain an advantage. |
| inductive discipline | A discipline strategy in which parents explain to children why a punished behavior is wrong. |
| instrumental aggression | Aggression used to gain or damage an object. |
| parenting styles | The characteristic strategies that parents use to manage children's behavior. |
| permissive parenting style | A style of parenting that is high in nurturance and low in maturity demands, control, and communication. |
| person perception | The ability to classify others according to categories such as age, gender, and race. |
| prosocial behavior | Behavior intended to help another person. |
| sex-typed behavior | Different patterns of behavior exhibited by boys and girls. |
| social skills | A set of behaviors that usually lead to being accepted as a play partner or friend by peers. |
| social-cognitive theory | The theoretical perspective that asserts that social and personality development in early childhood is related to improvements in the cognitive domain. |
| uninvolved parenting style | A style of parenting that is low in nurturance, maturity demands, control, and communication. |
