Child Development Flashcards
Who’s theory views children as scientists?
Piaget’s theory
Who’s theory views children as apprentices?
Vygotsky’s theory
Who proposed the theory of personality development?
Erikson
A child in sensorimotor stage of development learns about the world how?
Seeing, touching, feeling to explore environment
0-2 years
What is ‘object permanence’?
When a child realises an object is still there, and so continues looks for it.
Egocentrism, animism and transductive reasoning are examples of which stage of child development?
Pre-operational stage (2-7 years)
At which stage can a developing child perform logical operations in the presence of objects?
Concrete operation stage (7-11 years)
When a child can apply abstract reasoning, working out verbal statements in their head, they are in what stage of development?
Formal operation stage (11+)
Now they can think hypothetically and reason things
Which theory of child development has its roots in Darwin’s research, examining how behaviour is determined by a species’ need for survival?
Ethology
A child in the pre-conventional moral reasoning stage of development bases their judgement on what?
Consequences
A child in the conventional moral reasoning stage of development bases their judgement on what?
Whether act conforms to conventional standards of right and wrong
A child in the post-conventional moral reasoning stage of development bases their judgement on what?
On one’s personal values, not by conventional standards
