Chapter 7 Flashcards
How does growth increase or decrease in preschool years conpared to infancy
Height and weight happen far more slowly. Child adds 5-8 cm and 2.7 kilos in weight each year
In preschool years what do children make steady progress on ?
Steady pogress in motor skills
What did researchers discover about children with high motor skills?
Better ability to control or inhibit their behaviour allowing for successful task achievement
Childrens motor activity increase or decreases with age ?
It increases linearly with age and tend to peack between 7-9 years of age
Whats the impressive gains a toung child makes as preschoolers?
Gross motor skills ( larger muslces)
Milestones or motor skills for 18-24 mos (gross)
Gross motor
Runs (20mos)
Walks well (24 mos)
Climbs stairs with both feet pushes and pull boxes unsrews lids
Gross motor skills 2-3 years
Runs easily, climbs on furniture without help, hauls and shoves big toys around obstacles
Fine motor skills are and gice example
Movements that develop the small muscles of the hands, also improve in these hears but not the same level of confidence. 3 year old can eat cherrios but 5 year olds can string beads on strings
Left hemisphere of the brain holds …
Logic, analysis, math, language
Right hemisphere of the brain holds …
Creativity , intuition , art/music, spatial perception
Whats corpus callosum ?
Structube that connects the right and left hemisphere of the cerebal cortex
Laterization is environmetal or biological ?
Its dictated through our genes
Reticular formation …
Regulates atrention and concentration
The hippocampus …
Transfer of information to long-term memory
What causes us to not remember much 1-3 years old
The maturation of the functional connections between the hippocampus and the cerebal cortex
Whats the phenomenon called for not remembering anything 1-3 years
Infantile amnesia
Hendedness happens when?
Before the first year
What does handedness mean
Primarily use the left or righr ahnd early in life
Sleep rates for 3-5 year okds
Vary between 10-13 hours of sleep
At What Age Are Children Able To Manipulate Symbols And Can Make Accurate Judgments About Others ?
5 or 6
What is seniotic symbolic function ?
The understanding that one object or behaviour can represent another pic of chair reps a real chair
Who discovered semiotic function ?
Paiaget
Once children reach semiotic (symbolic) function whats the next stage ?
Preoperational stage (sexond stage of cofnitive development
What ages do children experience the semiotic (sumbolic) function ?
18-24 mos
Cognitive changes what children experience at the beginning and at rhe end
At the beginning learn to accomplish goals
At the end they are manipulating symbols and can make accueate judgements about others thought
Vocaublary growth
By 1 = dozen words
2 1/2 = 600 words
5-6 = 15000 words
Fast mapping is
To categorically link new words to real world refeences
Grammar explosions
Adding ing Where going ?
Phonological awareness
Understnaind the sound or partens develops through nursery rhymes and games involving repetetive words
Operational effieiency is …
A neo piaget term that refers to the max number of schemes that can be prcessed in working memory at one time
piaget stages of cognitive development is characterized by symbolic representation and egocentrism
Preoperational
Flavell used a sponge painted to look like a rock to demonstrate that 4 and 5 year olds can or cannot …
Can distinguish between appearance and reality
According to neo-piaget theory, operational efficiency is …
The max number of schemes that can be put into short term storage space
