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Chapter 1 - Historical Views of Children and Childhood Flashcards

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Define theory:

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A theory is an organized set of ideas that are designed to explain and make predictions about development

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True or False: Development unfolds in a predictable way

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True: this is what makes it easy to determine what is essential, or not essential, in development

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Plato argued that _________, while Aristotle saw __________.

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Children are born with innate knowledge; knowledge as rooted in experience

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Locke asserts an infant is a “__________”, while Rousseau believed children are ___________.

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blank slate; born with an innate sense of justice and morality

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The contrasting views of Locke and Rousseau are seen during the age of:

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Enlightenment

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Detailed systematic observations of individual children were kept by:

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G. Stanley Hall

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Detailed systematic observations of individual children were kept by:

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G. Stanley Hall

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The first English language scientific journal in which scientists could publish findings from their child development research was founded by who?

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G. Stanley Hall

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What does ‘The Contents of Children’s Mind’ aim to do?

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It aims to use the scientific method to understand the source of the human mind’s development

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What are the 5 Theoretical Perspectives?

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The Biological Perspective, The Psychodynamic perspective, The Learning perspective, The Cognitive-developmental perspective and the Contextual perspective

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Explain the Biological Perspective

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Development is determined primarily by biological forces. Environmental forces can affect genes

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What are the two theories that come out of the Biological Perspective?

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The Maturational theory and the Ethological theory

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What is the Maturational theory?

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The maturational theory argues that development reflects the natural unfolding of a prearranged biological plan. The fetus develops in a systematic, observable way.

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What is the Ethological theory?

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The ethological theory sees many behaviours that young children have as adaptive because they have a survival value, which maximizes the survival of the child

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What are the two concepts to come out of the biological perspective?

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The critical period, and Imprinting

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What is the critical period?

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A time in which the child is ready and able to learn something. It is very important in developmental psychology because it is highly unlikely for a child to learn something if they miss the critical period

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What is imprinting?

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Imprinting is the forming of an emotional bond between the child and the first moving object it sees, which is usually the mother. Imprinting is critical

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What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?

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Development is determined by how a child resolves conflict at different ages

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What are the two major theories to come out of the Psychodynamic Perspective?

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Freud’s Psychosexual theory, and Erikson’s Psychosocial theory

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What is Freud’s Psychosexual Theory?

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Freud’s Three Components of Personality, Freud’s five stages of development. Experiences affect children’s development. if they don’t move from one stage to the next, they get stuck at one stage. Children experience the conflict between desire and what they should do.

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What are Freud’s three components of personality?

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The id, the ego, and the superego

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What are Freud’s 5 stages of development

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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital

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What is Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory

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Children are part of a community and a society. Erickson’s stages are defined by unique challenges. He sees that development is not only in children but throughout their whole life. He doesn’t go far from Freud’s theory but works on it. He argues that there is a combination of social and personal conflicts.

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What is the Learning Perspective?

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Early learning theories emphasized the importance of experience in development. Learning theorists suggested that children learn by observing others - Pavlov, B.F Skinner, Bandura

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Pavlov studied ___________ and B.F Skinner studied ______________.

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classical conditioning; operant conditioning

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What is operant conditioning?

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Reinforcement and punishment

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True or False: Negative Reinforcement and Punishment is the same thing

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False: Negative Reinforcement is taking something negative away to increase the likelihood of something happening, and punishment is applying something negative

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What is Bandura’s Theory?

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Bandura’s social cognitive theory holds that children actively interpret events and respond based on their perceptions

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According to the Social Cognitive theory, children develop a sense of ________ through experience that influences their behaviour

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self-efficacy

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What is the Cognitive-Developmental Perspective?

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In this perspective, development reflects children’s efforts to understand the world. As a child develops, they attempt to understand the world

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______ believes that children are seen as little scientists because they develop and revise their theories of the world with experience

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Piaget

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What is the difference between Assimilation and Accommodation? - IMPORTANT

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Assimilation: As a child is experiencing the world, they are taking in all the data and using their current knowledge to see how the world fits in with what they already know.
Accommodation: The child realizes that they must modify their existing knowledge base to accommodate new information.

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What are Piaget’s 4 stages of Cognitive Development?

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Sensorimotor, Pre-Operational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operational.

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Explain the Sensorimotor Stage

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Birth to 2 years - infants’ knowledge of the world is based on senses and motor skills. By the end of the period, they use mental representations

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Explain the Pre-Operational stage

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2 to 7 years - children learn how to use symbols, such as words and numbers to represent aspects of the world but relate to the world only through their own perspective

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Explain the concrete operational stage

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7 to 11 years - the child understands and applies logical operations to experiences, provided the experiences are focused on the here and now

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Explain the formal operational stage

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Adolescence and beyond - they think abstractly, and speculate on hypothetical situations, and reason deductively about what may be possible

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Explain the Contextual Perspective

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Development is determined by immediate and more distant environments, which typically influence each other. Culture comes together to influence development - cults convey to children the beliefs and customs of their culture

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What is Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory?

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Views development within a set of nested, interacting systems

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What are the interacting systems in the Ecological Systems theory?

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Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem, and Chronosystem

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What is the Continuity-Discontinuity issue?

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Development is not perfectly predictable, nor completely flexible

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What is the Nature-Nurture issue?

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They interact with each other to encourage development. the major goal of child development research is to understand how genes and the environment the child is raised in interact to determine the child’s development.

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What is the Active-passive issue?

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The environment can only go so far when it comes to development. The child’s personality will then affect the environment around them

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True or false: Parent child relationships are one-directional

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False: They are bi-directional; the child influences their parents just as much as the parents influence their children

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What are the 5 domains of development?

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  1. Physical growth, 2. Cognition, 3. Language, 4. Personality, 5. Social Relationships
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What is the Scientific method?

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  1. Formulate a question, 2. Form a hypothesis, 3. Test the hypothesis, 4. Draw a conclusion
46
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What are the goals of research?

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Describe, Explain, Predict, Influence

47
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What are the two types of systematic observation?

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Naturalistic, structured

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What is naturalistic observation?

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The research observes children in their natural environment

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What is structured observation?

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The researcher creates an environment to elicit a reaction

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What is observer bias?

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When you interpret your data in a certain way. You look at information from your study and interpret in your own way to support your hypothesis, even if the data does not support it.

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What is observer influence?

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Children change how they act because they know they are being watched. You are a new person, your presence may change how they interact.

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True or false: Measures should provide consistent results overtime and measure what they are meant to measure

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True: Measures should be both valid and reliable

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What is a negative correlation?

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When researchers do not consider a third variable. Two things may change systematically, but there is a third variable that is the actual correlation

54
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What is the correlation coefficient?

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-1.0 to +1.0

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What is quantitative research?

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Studies with data, graphs, and math

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Qualitative methods allow researchers to investigate children’s ______ and _______ about a topic of interest

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thoughts; feelings

57
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What is the problem with qualitative research?

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You cannot predict future studies

58
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What is a longitudinal study?

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A study in which the same children are tested across a span of many years, you look at the same individuals over a span of time

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What is a micro genetic study?

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Children are repeatedly tested over a short period of time - i.e. a couple weeks or a few days

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What is a cross-sectional study?

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Children at different ages are tested in the same year

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What is a longitudinal-sequential study?

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Children at different ages are tested across several years

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A meta analysis involves __________ to address a single issue

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many different studies

63
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What are the guidelines for ethical research in Canada?

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  1. Seek to do research that benefits humanity.
  2. Minimize risks to research participants.
  3. Describe the research to potential participants.
  4. Avoid Deceiving.
  5. Keep results confidential or anonymous
  6. give a debriefing after.

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