Child Development and Early Developmental Theories Flashcards

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Developmental stages implies

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  • Behaviours at a given stage are organised around a dominant theme
  • All children go through the same order environmental factors may speed up or slow down development
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Major developmental theories

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  1. Freud’s psychosexual stage
  2. Erikson’s psychosocial stage
  3. Piaget’d cognitive development stage
  4. Kohlberg’s moral understanding stage
  5. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems
  6. Behavioural theories
  7. Attachment theory
  8. Social learning
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According to Sigmund Freud personality is mostly established by the age of __

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5

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Freud believed that personality develops through

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a series of childhood stages during which the pleasure seeking energies of the child become focused on certain erogenous areas

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Freud describes ___ as the driving force behind behaviour

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psychosexual energy or libido

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Fixation

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a persistent focus on an earlier psychosexual stage

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Psychosexual stages of development

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Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, Genital

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Psychosexual stage development age

The OralStage -
The AnalStage -
The PhallicStage -
The LatentPeriod -
The GenitalStage -

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The OralStage 0-2 yrs
The AnalStage 2- 5 yrs
The PhallicStage 5 – 7yrs
The LatentPeriod 7 – 11 yrs
The GenitalStage 11 yrs and above

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in Erikson’s view, conflicts are

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centered on either developing a psychological quality or failing to develop that quality

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Basic Conflict to Event
Trust vs Mistrust -
Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt -
Initiative vs Guilt -
Industry vs Inferiority -
Identity vs Role confusion -
Intimacy vs Isolation -
Generativity vs Stagnation
Ego Integrity vs Despair

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Trust vs Mistrust - Feeding

Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt - Toilet Training

Initiative vs Guilt - Exploration

Industry vs Inferiority - School

Identity vs Role confusion - Social Relationship

Intimacy vs Isolation - Relationships

Generativity vs Stagnation - Worm and Parenthood

Ego Integrity vs Despair - Reflection of Life

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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

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  • Sensorimotor (0-2)
  • Preoperational (2-6)
  • Concrete operational (7-11)
  • Formal operational (12 and above)
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hallmark of preoperational stage

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language

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Levels of Kohlberg’s moral understanding stage theory

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  • preconventional
  • conventional
  • post conventional
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preconventional morality stages

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  1. obedience and punishment
  2. individual interest
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Stages of conventional morality

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  1. interpersonal
  2. authority
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stages of post conventional morality

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  1. social contract
  2. universal ethics
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Bronfenbrenner believed that

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a person’s development was affected by everything in their surrounding environment.

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Five environmental systems

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micro, meso, exo, macro and chrono

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microsystem

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This is the first, and closest, layer of the nested systems which encompasses an individual’shuman relationships, interpersonal interactions and most immediate surroundings.

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mesosystem

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encompasses the different interactions between the characters contained within the microsystem

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exosystem

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incorporates elements of the bio-ecological systems which do not directly affect the child, but may have an indirect influence.

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macro system

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encompasses cultural and societal beliefs, decisions and actions which influence an individual child’s development.

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Classical conditioning was discovered by

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Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov

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classical conditioning is

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a learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.

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extinction describes

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the gradual decline of a behavior when the CS(Conditioned Stimulus) is repeatedly presented without the US(Unconditioned Stimulus)

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operant conditioning is sometimes referred to as

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instrumental conditioning

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Presentation punishment type 1

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Weakening a behavior by presenting an aversive stimulus immediately after the behavior has occurred

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Shaping

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Reducing complex behaviors into a sequence of more simple behaviors

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attachment can be defined as

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a deep and enduring emotional bond between two people in which each seeks closeness and feels more secure when in the presence of theattachmentfigure

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attachment theory states that

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a strong emotional and physical attachment to at least one primary caregiver is critical to personal development.

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Distinguishing characteristics of attachment

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Proximity maintenance, Safe haven, Secure base and Separation distress

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Ainsworth three major styles of attachment

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secure, ambivalent-insecure, avoidant-insecure