Category: D

Behavior that differs from a statistical norm. Sexual behaviour which is considered unusual. Variation from normal behavior beyond the limits acceptable to the majority of the conforming peer group; particularly (though not exclusively) applied to sexual habits. A variation from the accepted norm.  

In career planning, occupational choice represents an evolving sequence of individual decisions.  

Freudian theory that traces the development of personality through five psycho sexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.  

In the study of mental retardation, a person who believes that the cognitive development of retardates has simply been slower than that of normal persons, and not qualitatively different, defect theorist.  

Proposed by Robert Havighurst as important achievements each person must go through during various stages of growth and development. The stages suggested are infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age, and late maturity. Havighurst believed that as tasks arise, a person must accomplish them, and the degree to which the task is…

Research methods, such as cross-sectional, longitudinal, and retrospective studies, used to investigated changes in behavior over a period of time.  

A measure of development that reflects a person’s performance on a standardized test of infant development relative to same age peers. DQ is not a good prediction of IQ.  

The scientific discipline concerned with describing age-related changes in the behavior and mental processes of both humans and animals and explaining how nature and nurture through their interaction produce these changes.  

The theory that a mentally retarded person’s learning simply proceeds more slowly, attaining a lower ceiling of performance than that of a normal person.  

Identification based on fear of loss of love.