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Chapter 7 Flashcards

1
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How does growth increase or decrease in preschool years conpared to infancy

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Height and weight happen far more slowly. Child adds 5-8 cm and 2.7 kilos in weight each year

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In preschool years what do children make steady progress on ?

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Steady pogress in motor skills

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What did researchers discover about children with high motor skills?

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Better ability to control or inhibit their behaviour allowing for successful task achievement

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Childrens motor activity increase or decreases with age ?

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It increases linearly with age and tend to peack between 7-9 years of age

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Whats the impressive gains a toung child makes as preschoolers?

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Gross motor skills ( larger muslces)

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Milestones or motor skills for 18-24 mos (gross)

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Gross motor

Runs (20mos)
Walks well (24 mos)
Climbs stairs with both feet pushes and pull boxes unsrews lids

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Gross motor skills 2-3 years

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Runs easily, climbs on furniture without help, hauls and shoves big toys around obstacles

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Fine motor skills are and gice example

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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

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9
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Left hemisphere of the brain holds …

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Logic, analysis, math, language

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Right hemisphere of the brain holds …

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Creativity , intuition , art/music, spatial perception

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11
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Whats corpus callosum ?

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Structube that connects the right and left hemisphere of the cerebal cortex

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12
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Laterization is environmetal or biological ?

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Its dictated through our genes

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13
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Reticular formation …

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Regulates atrention and concentration

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14
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The hippocampus …

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Transfer of information to long-term memory

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15
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What causes us to not remember much 1-3 years old

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The maturation of the functional connections between the hippocampus and the cerebal cortex

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16
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Whats the phenomenon called for not remembering anything 1-3 years

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Infantile amnesia

17
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Hendedness happens when?

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Before the first year

18
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What does handedness mean

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Primarily use the left or righr ahnd early in life

19
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Sleep rates for 3-5 year okds

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Vary between 10-13 hours of sleep

20
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At What Age Are Children Able To Manipulate Symbols And Can Make Accurate Judgments About Others ?

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5 or 6

21
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What is seniotic symbolic function ?

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The understanding that one object or behaviour can represent another pic of chair reps a real chair

22
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Who discovered semiotic function ?

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Paiaget

23
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Once children reach semiotic (symbolic) function whats the next stage ?

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Preoperational stage (sexond stage of cofnitive development

24
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What ages do children experience the semiotic (sumbolic) function ?

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18-24 mos

25
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Cognitive changes what children experience at the beginning and at rhe end

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At the beginning learn to accomplish goals

At the end they are manipulating symbols and can make accueate judgements about others thought

26
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Vocaublary growth

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By 1 = dozen words
2 1/2 = 600 words
5-6 = 15000 words

27
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Fast mapping is

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To categorically link new words to real world refeences

28
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Grammar explosions

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Adding ing Where going ?

29
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Phonological awareness

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Understnaind the sound or partens develops through nursery rhymes and games involving repetetive words

30
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Operational effieiency is …

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A neo piaget term that refers to the max number of schemes that can be prcessed in working memory at one time

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piaget stages of cognitive development is characterized by symbolic representation and egocentrism

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Preoperational

32
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Flavell used a sponge painted to look like a rock to demonstrate that 4 and 5 year olds can or cannot …

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Can distinguish between appearance and reality

33
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According to neo-piaget theory, operational efficiency is …

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The max number of schemes that can be put into short term storage space

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