Chapter 2-13 terms Flashcards
___________ is the process by which axons become coated with myelin, a fatty substance that speeds up the transmission of nerve impulses between neurons
Myelination
Is a long, thick band of nerve fibers that connect the right and the left hemispheres of the brain
Corpus callosum
Refers to the specialization in certain functions by each side of the brain.
Laterization
Is the ability to postpone the immediate response to an idea or behavior
Impulse control
Is the tendency to stick to one thought or action for a long time. And young children, this is a normal product of immature brain functions
Preseveration
Part of the brains limbic system, the ______________ registers emotion, particular fear and anxiety
Amygdala
____________ is part of the brains limbic system that is a central processor of memory, especially memory for locations
Hippocampus
Is the practice of limiting the extent of injuries by anticipating, controlling and preventing dangerous activities.
Injury control/ harm reduction
Refers to actions that change overall background conditions to prevent some unwanted event or circumstances
Primary Prevention
Involves actions that avert harm in high-risk situations
Secondary Prevention
Involves actions taken after an adverse event occurs, aimed at reducing the harm or preventing disability
Tertiary Prevention
Is intentional harm to or avoidable endangerment if anyone under age 18
Child Maltreatment
Refers to deliberate actions that are harmful to a child’s physical, emotional, or sexual well-being.
Child abuse
Refers to failure to appropriately me a child’s basic physical, educational, or emotional needs
Child neglect
Child maltreatment that has been officially reported to authorities, investigated and verified is called
Substantiated Maltreatment
Child maltreatment that has been officially reported to the police or other authorities is
Reported maltreatment
Is in anxiety disorder triggered by exposure to an extreme Trumatic stress her. Symptoms of this include hyperactivity and hyper vigilance, sleeplessness so I didn’t care or anxiety, and confusion between fantasy and reality
Post Trumatic stress disorder PTSD
Is planning for the long-term care of a child who has experienced substantiated Maltreatment
Permanency planning
Is legally sanctioned, publicly supported arrangement in which children are removed from their biological parents and temporarily given to another adult to nurture
Foster care
It’s a form of foster care in which a relative of a maltreated child becomes the child’s approved caregiver
Kinship care
Is a legal procedure in which an adult or couple is granted the obligations and joys of being the parents of an unrelated child
Adoption
Piagets theory about thinking between the ages of two and six, mostly involves language and imagination. Children can not yet preform logical operations or logical principles
Pre-operational intelligence
Allows children to understand that words can be symbols that refer to things they cannot see
Symbolic thought
Is the believe that natural objects and phenomena are alive
Animism
Is the tendency of preoperational children to focus only on a single aspect of a situation or objects
Centration
Is Piaget’s term for a type of centration in which pre-operational children view the world exclusively from their own perspective
Egocentrism
Refers to the preoperational child’s tendency to focus only on a parent attributes and ignore all others
Focus on appearance
Preoperational thinking in which the young child sees the world as unchanging
Static reasoning
Is the characteristic of Preoperational thought in which the young child fails to recognize that a process can be reversed to Restore The original conditions of a situation
Irreversibility
Is the understanding that the amount of quantity of a substance or object is unaffected by changes in its appearance
Conservation
Vygotsky says each individual has this. Which represents the skills cognitive and physical that are within the potential of the learner but cannot be performed independently
Zone of proximal development Z PD
Tutors use this to structure children’s learning experiences in order to foster their emerging capabilities
Scaffolding
Is the comment tendency of 2 to 6-year-olds to imitate a double actions that are irrelevant and inefficient
Overimitation
Is the tendency of young children to attempt to construct theories to explain everything the experience
Theory-theory
Is an understanding of human mental processes that is of one’s own or another’s emotions believe intentions motives and thoughts
Theory of mind
Is the speedy and sometimes imprecise process by which children learn new words by tentatively connecting them to words and categories that they already understand
Fast mapping
Occurs when children apply rules or grammar when they should not. It is seen in English for example when children add us to the form the plural even in your regular places that form the plural in a different way
Overregulation
Refers to the practical adjusting of language according to the audience and contexts
Pragmatics
Is a person who is equally fluent in two languages
Balanced bilingual
Offers early childhood education based on the philosophy of Maria Montessori
Montessori schools
A theme is childhood program education that came from Italy and encourages each child’s creativity
Reggio Emilia
Is a federally funded early childhood interventionprogram for low income children
Headstart
__________________ are children who develop skills in two languages
Dual language learners DLL
Is the ability to control when and how emotions are expressed
Emotional regulation
Is the ability to regulate one’s actions and emotions
Hint* this person is making an effort
Effortful control
This is Ericksons crisis of early childhood that young children eagerly take on new skills and activities and feel guilty when they do not succeed at them
Initiative versus guilt
Refers to people’s understanding of who they are
Self concept
Is the internal goals or drives to accomplish something for the joy of doing it
Intrinsic motivation
Is the need for rewards from outside such as material possessions
Extrinsic motivation
Make-believe friends common among children between three and seven
Imaginary friends
Is an illness or disorder of the mind
Psychopathology
Young children who have this have trouble regulating emotions and uncontrollably lash out at other people or things
Externalizing problems
These children tend to be more fearful in with Ronn as a consequence of their tendencies to keep their emotions bottled up inside themselves
Internalizing problems
Is it physical play that often mimics aggression but involves no intent to harm
Rough and tumble play
Children act out rolls and themes and stories of their own creation allowing them to rehearse social roles, practice regulating their emotions, test their ability to convince others of their ideas, develop a self concept in a nonthreatening context
Sociodramatic play
Baumrinds term for A style of child rearing in which the parents show little affection or nutrients or their children, maturity demands are high and parents our communication is low
Authoritarian parenting
Someone who is in authoritarian demands unquestioning obedience and ask in a dictatorial way
Memory aid
Baumrinds term for a style of Child rearing in which the parents make few demands on their children, yet are nurturant and expecting and communicate well with their child
Permissive parenting
Baumrinds term for is that out of child rearing in which the parent set limits and enforce rules but are willing to listen to the child’s ideas and are flexible
Authoritative parenting
Baumrinds term for and approach to child rearing in which the parents are indifferent towards their children
Neglectful/uninvolved parenting
Biological differences between males and females
Sex differences
Cultural differences in the “roles” and behavior of males and females
Gender differences
In the psychoanalytic theory this is the third stage of psychosexual development, in which the penis becomes the focus of concern and pleasure
Phallic stage
Freud psycho social development theory where boys in the phallic stage develop feelings and sexual attraction to their mother and resentment of the father
Oedipus complex
In the psychoanalytic theory this is the judge mental part of personality that internalizes the moral standards of the parents
Superego
Freud’s phallic stage where girls develop a connection of feelings that center on sexual attraction to the father and resentment of the mother
Electra complex
In Freud’s theory this is a means of defending oneself concepts by taking on good behavior and attitudes of another person
Identification
In the cognitive theory this is the child understanding of sex differences
Gender schema
Is a persons understanding of other peoples feelings and concerns
Empathy
Is a persons feelings of dislike or even hatred for another person
Antipathy
A type of behavior that involves feelings and actions that are deliberately hurtful or distractive to another person
Antisocial behavior
A type of behavior that involves feelings and actions that are helpful and kind but without any obvious benefit
Prosocial behavior
Hurtful behavior that is intended to get or keep a possession or privilege that another person has
Instrumental aggression
Impulsive retaliation for some intentional or accidental act, verbal or physical by another person
Hint** in response to
Reactive aggression
Involves insults and other non-physical acts aimed at harming the social connection between the victim and other people
Relational aggression
And unprovoked, repeated the physical or verbal attack on another person
Bullying aggression