Child Development Flashcards
Development
Systematic age-related changed in physical, cognitive, socio-emotional and moral functional across the life span.
Socialization
Process by which individuals acquire knowledge, skills and character traits
- socialization happens everywhere
- *children play an active role in their own socialization
Domains of Development (3)
1) Physical/biological
2) Cognitive
3) Emotional and social/psychosocial
Self-concept
An individual’s perception of his/her identity
- emerges as experiences of separateness from other occur
Erikson
Explained the personality development of individuals as the outcome of their interactions
- first to identify “life development”
Piaget
Watched his 3 children and came up with a cognitive development theory
Schemes
Actions or mental representations that organize knowledge
Assimilation
Incorporation of new information into existing knowledge
Accomodation
Adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences
Organization
The grouping and arranging of items and categories
Equilibration
Explains how children shift from one stage of thought to the next
Sensorimotor
0-2 years
- gain knowledge from physical interactions
Preoperational
2-7 years
- begin to use mental representation
Concrete Operational
7-11 years
- can now reason logically
Formal Operational
11 years - adulthood
- reason in more abstract, idealistic and logical ways
- *Not everyone reaches formal operation. You need:
- training
- context
