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Adaptive behaviors include life skills such as grooming, dressing, safety, food handling, working, money management, cleaning, making friends, social skills, and the personal responsibility expected of their age, social group and wealth group. Specifically relevant are community access skills and peer access and retention skills, and behaviors ...
Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life. [1] This concept is also termed as psychosocial competency. [ 2 ]
Social competence consists of social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills needed for successful social adaptation.Social competence also reflects having the ability to take another's perspective concerning a situation, learn from past experiences, and apply that learning to the changes in social interactions.
First studied as an adaptive mechanism specific to humans, [1] cognitive specialization has since evolved to encompass many behaviors in the social realm. Organisms have evolved over millions of years to become well-adapted to their habitats; this requires becoming specialized in behaviors that improve an organism's likelihood of survival and reproduction.
A psychological adaptation is a functional, cognitive or behavioral trait that benefits an organism in its environment. Psychological adaptations fall under the scope of evolved psychological mechanisms (EPMs), [ 2 ] however, EPMs refer to a less restricted set.
Adaptive behavior, or adaptive functioning, refers to the skills needed to live independently (or at the minimally acceptable level for age). To assess adaptive behavior, professionals compare the functional abilities of a child to those of other children of similar age.
Adaptive example: developing strong interpersonal skills to compensate for difficulty with academics; Intellectualization: focusing on the abstract side of something as opposed to the practical or emotional sides [23] Adaptive example: researching a disease after being diagnosed rather than contemplating the life changing impact [24]
The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale is a psychometric instrument used in child and adolescent psychiatry and clinical psychology. It is used especially in the assessment of individuals with an intellectual disability , a pervasive developmental disorder , and other types of developmental delays .