Child Development Chapter 1 & 2 Flashcards

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5 Periods of Development (up to age 20)

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Prenatal, Infancy, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Adolescence

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Child Development vs Developmental Psychology Range

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Child Development - Conception to Adolescence

Developmental Psych - Conception to Death

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Four Issues/Debates

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  1. Continuous vs. Discontinuous
  2. One course or many
  3. Nature vs. Nurture
  4. Stable vs. Open to change
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  1. One course of development or many?
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One Course - Children everywhere follow same for stages.

Many Courses - Different cultures shape development differently

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  1. Nature vs. Nurture
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Nature focuses on biological givens

Nurture focuses on physical/social world

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  1. Stable vs. Open to Change
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Stability emphasizes heredity

Change emphasizes experience

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Medieval Times

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Preformantionism (Children are already formed adults)

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Preformationism

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Children were regarded as already formed adults. (Medieval times)

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Reformation Times

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Children were regarded as evil and stubborn.

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Enlightenment Times

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Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate) and Nobile Savege (Inborn Talents)

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Three Domains of Development

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Physical, Cognitive, Emotional/Social

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Tabula Rasa

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Child is born as a blank slate for society to shape.

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Noble Savege

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Child is born with inborn talents.

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Infancy Period

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Birth to 2 years old

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Scientific Times

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Evolutionary Theory

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Early Childhood

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2 to 6 years old

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Middle Childhood

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6 to 11 years old

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17
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Id

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Primative and Instinctive

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Ego

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Rational

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Super-Ego

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Conscious and Rational

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Classic Conditioning Theory

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Relationship between stimulus and response.

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Operant Conditioning Theory

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Reinforcement and Punishment

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  1. Continuous vs. Discontinuous Development
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Continuous is a gradual process like a sponge.

Discontinuous is a staged process like a plant.

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Four Stages of Devvelopment

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  1. Sensory-motor
  2. Pre-Operational
  3. Concrete-Operational
  4. Formal-Operational
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Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural theory

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Cognative development is culturally and socially molded from interaction

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4 Systems of Ecological System Theory

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Micro
Meso
Exo
Macro

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Meso-system

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The connections between Micro-systems.

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Exo-system

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Social settings that do not contain the child, but still affect experiences in immediate settings.

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Macro-system

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Cultural values, laws, and customs.

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Theory

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Set of statements that describe, explain, and predict behavior.

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Hypothesis

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Prediction drawn directly from a theory.

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Systematic Observation

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Naturalistic & structured observation

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Self-Reports

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Can be in the form of Interviews or Questionares

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Case-Study

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Study on a single child

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Ethnography and two of it’s issues

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The study of cultures other than ones own.

The bias of the investigator.
Findings that aren’t generalized beyond subject group.

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Two types of designs

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Correlational and Experimetal

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Adolescence

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11 to 20 years old

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Correlational Design

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Looking for relationships (cannot infer cause and effect)

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Experimental Design

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Looking for cause/effect relationships

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Variables

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Independent is manipulated.

Dependent is studied.

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Longitudinal study

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One group is monitored over time.

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Cross-sectional study

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Different groups are monitored

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Children’s 5 research rights

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Protection from harm
Informed consent
Privacy
Results
Beneficial treatment
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Who: Piaget

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Who: One course of development (with 4 stages)

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Who: Vygotsky

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Who: Different cultures shape development differently

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Who: John Lock

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Who: Tabula Rasa (blank slate)

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Who: Jean Rouseau

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Who: Noble Savage (inborn talents)

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Who: Darwin

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Who: Evolution

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Who: Freud

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Who: Id, Ego, SuperEgo

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Who: Watson

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Who: Classic Conditioning Theory (stimulant/response relationship)

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Who: Skinner

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Who: Operant Conditioning Theory (reinforcement/punishment)

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Who: Brofenbrenner

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Who: Ecological system theory (micro, messo, exo, macro system)

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Micro-system

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The innermost level of the child’s environment, such as immediate family, school, or playground.

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Prenatal Period

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Conception to Birth