cascade dezvoltatoare

Question 1

What is the Waterfall Analogy?

Answer 1

Development is an interconnected and cumulative process.

Question 2

What are the 3 principles of the cascade approach?

Answer 2

1. development reflects the use of multiple mechanisms
2. mechanisms of developmental change operate at many levels
3. the emergence of any behaviour (any milestone) represents one point in an ongoing developmental cascade

Question 3

What is a mechanism?

Answer 3

Understanding how something happens

Question 4

What are the 2 types of mechanisms?

Answer 4

Domain general
Domain specific

Question 5

What is domain general?

Answer 5

the same mechanisms are used to acquire many different kinds of information, and develop skills in multiple domains

Question 6

What is domain specific?

Answer 6

Specialised mental systems designed by evolution to facilitate learning just in a single important domain.

Question 7

Example of domain specific

Answer 7

In an experiment child was surprised by the fact that a car was able to pass through a solid wall. This is the idea of solidity and they know that objects cannot pass through solid things.

Similarly, the child was surprised to find a ball under another box which suggests the idea of continuity and that a child expects to find the ball where it was last seen.

Question 8

What is object permanence?

Answer 8

Knowing that objects exist even when you are not looking at them.
Infants are not born with this.

Question 9

What is perceptual narrowing?

Answer 9

The tuning of the infant brain to their own environment.

6 month olds can discriminate between both human and monkey faces

By 10 months we can only reliably distinguish between the humans