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Compare and Contrast Cognitive Development in Young, Middle, and Late

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Compare and contrast cognitive development in young, middle, and late adulthood.


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Learned Helplessness

A condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed.

Avoidance Learning

A type of learning in which a subject learns to avoid a stimulus or situation to prevent a negative outcome.

Avoidance Training

A behavioral modification technique where a subject learns to avoid an unpleasant or undesirable outcome by performing a specific behavior.

Skinner Box

An experimental apparatus used to study animal behavior, particularly the effects of reinforcement on learning, developed by B.F. Skinner.

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