chapter 5

Question 1

Focuses on preschool and kindergarten (ages 3-6)

Answer 1

Early Childhood

Question 2

Turns to elementary school (ages 7-12)

Answer 2

Middle Childhood

Question 3

Tackles children’s families/school

Answer 3

Settings for development: Home, School, & Community

Question 4

Eriksons term for the early-childhood psychosocial task that involves exuberantly testing skills

Answer 4

Initiative

Question 5

Early childhood (3-6) critical stage in early development where a child navigates balance between taking initiative and feeling guilty.

Answer 5

Initiative vs Guilt

Question 6

During this stage children learn new skills and develop a sense of competence. Encouragement and support lead to a sense of industry, while lack of success can result in feelings of inferiority.

Answer 6

Industry vs inferiority

Question 7

Term for middle childhood psychosocial task involving bending to adult reality and needing to work for what we want

Answer 7

Industry

Question 8

Refers to muscle movements such as running, climbing, and hopping

Answer 8

Gross Motor Skills

Question 9

Small coordinated movements, such as buttoning a shirt, drawing faces, and writing one’s name.

Answer 9

Fine motor skills

Question 10

Children’s perceptions are captured by their immediate appearances. They believe that inanimate objects are alive .

Answer 10

Pre operations

Question 11

Piaget, the type of cognition characteristic of children aged 8-11, marked by the ability to reason about the world in logical adult ways.

Answer 11

Concrete operational thinking

Question 12

In piagets theory, the type of cognition characteristic of children aged 2-7, marked by an inability to step back from one’s immediate perceptions and think conceptually.

Answer 12

Pre operational thinking

Question 13

In Piagets framework, the type of cognition characteristic of children aged 8-11, marked by the ability to reason about the world in logical adult ways

Answer 13

Concrete Operational Thinking

Question 14

Piagetian tasks that involve changing the shape of substances to see whether children can go beyond the way that substance visually appears to understand that the amount remains the same

Answer 14

Conservation Tasks

Question 15

In Piagets conversion tasks, the concrete operational child’s knowledge that a specific change in the way a given substance looks can be reversed

Answer 15

Reversibility