Chapter 1: Major Issues Of Child Development Flashcards
Passivity
Children play a passive role in their own development
Activity
Children play an active role in their development and choose their own environment
Nature
Development is a product of biological forces and inherited predispositions
Nurture
Development is a product of environmental forces and life experiences
Stability
Emerge early and persist due to hereditary or early experiences (consistent with nature emphasis)
Continuity
Process of gradually adding more of the same types of skills that were there to begin with
Plasticity
Children are inherently unstable– change is possible and likely if new experiences support it
Discontinuous
Process in which new ways of understanding and responding to the world emerge at specific times
Factors related resiliency in children
Personal characteristics
Warm parental relationship
Social support outside of immediate family
Community resources and opportunities
Bowlby’s Infant cargiver attachment theory
as children cry, laugh and smile it encourages caregiver to approach and meet the child’s needs. This helps develop a relationship between caregiver and child. influences attachment characteristics later in life.
Universal
apply to all people
Particularistic
specific to the culture, family and individual
