HSS Ch. 2 Vocab

Theory based on the belief that people’s behavior is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control.

• Human Development

• Cognitive Theories

• Resources

• Behaviorism

• Developmental Theories

Behaviors associated with emotional responses.

• Operant Conditioning

• Classical Conditioning

• Psychoanalytic Theories

• Recovery Mode

Ideas about how people process information, think, and learn.

• Cognitive Theories

• Social Cognitive Theories

• Standard of Living

• Human Development

Comprehensive explanations about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time.

• Human Development

• Developmental Theories

• Behaviorism

• Operant Conditioning

Person or family’s measure of the wealth, comforts, and material goods available to them.

• Standard of Living

• Resources

• Recession Mode

• Expansion Mode

Theory based on the assumption that people are affected by rewards and punishments, but their reactions to rewards and punishments are filtered by their own perceptions, thoughts, and motivations.

• Psychoanalytic Theories

• Developmental Theories

• Social Cognitive Theories

• Human Development

When the economy accelerates and increases.

• Recession Mode

• Recovery Mode

• Expansion Mode

• Resources

Gradual process in which people change from birth through adulthood.

• Human Development

• Behaviorism

• Cognitive Theories

• Social Cognitive Theory

Supply of assets that can be used when needed.

• Standard of Living

• Recession Mode

• Classical Conditioning

• Resources

When the economy begins to accelerate or look hopeful.

• Recession Mode

• Recovery Mode

• Expansion Mode

• Standard of Living