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Chapter 7 Physical & Cognitive Development in Early Childhood Flashcards

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Effect of children who exhibit higher motor activity levels

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Demonstrate a higher ability to control or inhibit their behavior allowing for successful task achievement.

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18-24 months old

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  • Runs, walks well, climbs stairs
  • Shows clear hand preference
  • Turns pages one at a time
  • picks up things without overbalancing
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2-3 Years

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  • Runs easily, climbs,

- Picks up small objects

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3-4 years

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  • Walks up stairs, skips on two feet, tricycle
  • Catches large ball, but paper with scissors
  • hold pencil
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4-5 years

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  • Walks up stairs one foot per step, stands, run tiptoe
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5-6 years

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skips on alternate feet

plays games well

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Brain and nervous system

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brain growth, synapse formation, myelination

Lateralization

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Lateralization

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  • functional specialization of the left and right brain hemispheres of the brain
  • corpus callosum: grows and matures most during this time
  • Genes provide mechanism for lateralization but experience shapes the pace
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Myelination of the reticular formation

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  • regulates attention and concentration
  • maturation of hippocampus, improvements of long term memory function across explains infantile amnesia
  • Handedness
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Handedness

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Preference for using one hand or the other. Develops between ages 2 and 6

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Cerebellum

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Controls balance and motor movements

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Corpus Callosum

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Connects left and right hemispheres of the brain

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Reticular formation

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Controls attention

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Infantile Amnesia

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cut off for earliest memories

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Imaginary friends

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  • frequent
  • knows the difference between real and not real
  • has cognitive and emotional benefits
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Preoperational Stage (2 - 6/7 years)

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become proficient in the use of symbols in thinking and communicating but sill have trouble thinking logically

  • egocentrism
  • centration
  • conservation
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Egocentrism

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belief that everyone sees and experiences the world the way he/she does
ex. pencil

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Centration

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thinks of the world at one variable at a time

ex. cat

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Conservation

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understanding that matter can change in appearance without changing in quantity

  • seriation
    ex. row test
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Piaget’s preoperational stage

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two substages:

  1. preconceptual (2-4 years)
  2. intuitive (4-7 years)
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Limitations and characteristics of preoperational thinking

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  • animalistic
  • transductive thinking or reasoning
  • egocentrism
  • appearance/ reality distinctions
  • perception bound thought
  • Irreversible thinking
  • Lacks hierarchical Classification
  • centration
  • focus on end state vs. transformations
  • horizontal decalage
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Theory of mind

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a set of ideas constructed by a individual to explain other people’s ideas, beliefs, desires, and behavior

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Information processing perspective

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  1. Short-term storage space (STSS)

2. Operational Efficiency

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Short-term storage space (STSS)

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the working memory

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Operational efficiency

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maximum number of schemes that can be processed in working memory at one time

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Encoding

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organizing information to be stored memory

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Storage

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Keeping information

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Retrival

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Getting information out of memory

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Metamemory

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knowledge about how memory works and he ability to control and reflect on one’s own memory function

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Metacognition

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knowledge on how the mind works and how the mid thinks and the ability to control and reflect on one’s own thought processes

  • problem solving
  • better performance on piaget’s tasks
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Vygotsky SocioCultural Theory

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emphasizes role of social factors in cognitive development; group learning is central to cognitive development

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(Vygotsky SocioCultural Theory)

Primitive period

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mental processes similar to animals

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(Vygotsky SocioCultural Theory)

Naive psychology period

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naive sentences

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Egocentric speech stage

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  • uses language as a guide to solves problems

- internalized by 6 -7 years

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Ingrowth Stage

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Logical thinking results from internalization of speech acquired from children and adults in a social world
- speech routines are acquired

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Fast-mapping

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ability to categorically link new words meaning then use the word often getting feedback to help them judge the accuracy of their hypothesis
hypothesis —> feedback

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Language: Grammar explosion

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  • Inflections
  • Questions and Negatives
  • overregulation
  • complex sentences
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Overregulation (Grammar explosion )

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Using rules when they don’t apply

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Complex Sentences

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Using conjunctions to combine two words

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Phonological awareness

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  • Understanding of the sound patterns of the language they are acquiring
  • Knowledge of the language’s system for representing sounds with letter
  • Can be learned in school through instruction
  • better Phonological awareness, better ability to read
  • primarily develops through word play
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Measuring Intelligence

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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ratio of metal age to chronological age also, a general form for any kind of score derived from an intelligence test

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Measuring Intelligence (IQ) Individual differences

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Evidence for heredity

Evidence for environment

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Reaction Range

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between upper and lower boundaries for traits such as intelligence, establishes by one’s genes; one’s environment determines where, within those limits, one will fall

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