Chapter 7 - Early Childhood Flashcards

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Absence or deficiency of growth hormone produced by the
pituitary gland to stimulate the body to grow.

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Growth hormone deficiency

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Nerve cells are covered and insulated with a layer of fat cells

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Myelination

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Simple movements, such as hopping, jumping, and running back and forth, just for the sheer delight of performing these activities.

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Gross motor skills

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The ability to pick up the tiniest objects between their thumb and forefinger for some time, they are still somewhat clumsy at it.

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Fine motor skill

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A development that allows the child to move their eyes efficiently across a series of letters.

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Perceptual development

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Important for children’s development

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Sleep

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7
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Extreme daytime sleepiness

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Narcolepsy

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8
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Difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep

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Insomnia

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Where children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings, and symbolic thought goes beyond simple connections of sensory information and physical action; stable concepts are formed, mental reasoning emerges, egocentrism is present, and magical beliefs are constructed.

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Preoperational stage

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These are reversible mental actions that allow children to do mentally what they formerly did physically.

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Operations

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Piaget’s first substage of preoperational thought, in which the child gains the ability to mentally represent an object that is not present (between about 2 and 4 years of age).

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Symbolic function substage

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The inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and someone else’s perspective.

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Egocentrism

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Belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of action.

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Animism

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This is the second substage of preoperational thought, occurring between approximately 4 and 7 years of age. In this substage, children begin to use primitive reasoning and want to know the answers to all sorts of questions.

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The intuitive thought substage

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15
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Focusing attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all others.

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Centration

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In Piaget’s theory, awareness that altering an object’s or a substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties.

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Conservation

17
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Another developmental theory that focuses on children’s cognition

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Vygotsky’s theory

18
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The range of tasks that are too difficult for the child to master alone but can be learned with guidance and assistance from adults or more-skilled children.

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Zone of proximal development (ZPD)

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Limit of the ZPD is the level of skill reached by the child working independently.

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Lower limit

20
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Level of additional responsibility the child can accept with the assistance of an able instructor.

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Upper limit

21
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Changing the level of support

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Scaffolding

22
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An approach that emphasizes the social contexts of learning and asserts that knowledge is mutually built and constructed. Vygotsky’s theory reflects this approach.

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Social constructivist approach

23
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Focusing of mental resources on select information.

24
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Involves action planning, allocating attention to goals, error detection and compensation, monitoring progress on tasks, and dealing with novel or difficult circumstances.

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Executive attention

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Focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event, or other aspect of the environment.
Sustained attention
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The retention of information over time—is a central process in children’s cognitive development.
Memory
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An information that individuals can retain for up to 30 seconds if there is no rehearsal of the information.
Short-term memory
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An umbrella-like concept that consists of a number of higher level cognitive processes linked to the development of the brain’s prefrontal cortex
Executive function
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Refers to awareness of one’s own mental processes and the mental processes of others.
Theory of mind
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A process that helps to explain how young children learn the connection between a word and its referent so quickly.
Fast mapping
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Education that involves the whole child by considering both the child’s physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development and the child’s needs, interests, and learning styles.
Child-center kindergarten
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An educational philosophy in which children are given considerable freedom and spontaneity in choosing activities and are allowed to move from one activity to another as they desire.
Montessori approach
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Which is based on knowledge of the typical development of children within an age span (age-appropriateness), as well as the uniqueness of the child (individual-appropriateness).
Developmentally appropriate practice
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A government-funded program that is designed to provide children from low-income families with the opportunity to acquire the skills and experiences important for school success.
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