Cognitive & Language Development Flashcards
Issues in developmental psychology ( 3 main debates)
Nature VS Nurture
Early VS Later Experience
Continuity VS Discontinuity
Explain Nature VS Nurture
The debate over the relative contribution of inheritance VS environment in development.
(Basically genetics VS environment)
Explain Early VS Later Experience
The relative importance of early experiences versus those that occur later in life
Are we affected more by events that occur in early childhood, or do later events play an equally important role ?
Explain Continuity VS Discontinuity
Does change occur smoothly overtime, or through a series of predetermined steps?
(Steps vs a path)
ADLs for children: FEEDING (among diff age groups)
18-24 months
24-30 months
3 years
4 years
5 years
ADLs for children: DRESSING (among diff age groups)
18-24 months
24-30 months
3 years
4 years
5 years
ADLs for children: BLADDER & BOWEL (among diff age groups)
18-24 months
24-30 months
3 years
Cognitive development: birth to 6 months
Cognitive development: 6 to 12 months
Cognitive development: 12 months
Cognitive development: 2 years
Cognitive development: 3 years
Cognitive development: 4 years
Cognitive development: 5 years
What is speech
Sounds used to transmit information or ideas
What are the speech domains?
Articulation
Resonance
Voice
Fluency /rhythm
What is language?
Understanding the sounds produced or heard; provides meaning to speech
What are the domains of language? (in the correct sequence)
Language development: birth to 6 months
Language development: 6 to 12 months
Language development: 12 to 24 months
Language development: 2 years
Language development: 3 years
Language development: 4 years
Language development: 5 years
What age is the following?
Respond to the sound of bell or rattle
Birth to 6 months
What age is the following?
Prefers patterns
Birth to six months
What age is the following?
Eyes follow a moving person
Birth to six months
What age is the following?
Visually prefers people to objects ; recognizes mother
Birth to six months
Which age is the following?
Associates behaviors and people
Birth to six months
Which age is the following?
Repeats action for own sake
Birth to six months
Which age is the following?
Vocalizes at mirror image
Birth to six months
Which age is the following?
Turns head to look for fallen objects
Birth to six months
Which age is the following?
Lengthy inspection of objects in the environment
Birth to six months
Which age is the following?
Reaches, inspects, and attends to objects and others
6 to 12 months
Which age is the following?
Imitation begins
6 to 12 months
Which age is the following?
Responds to name
6 to 12 months
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Waves bye-bye
6 to 12 months
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Deliberate choice of toy
6 to 12 months
Which age is the following?
Responds to “no—no”
6 to 12 months
Which age is the following?
Simple problem-solving: pulls bell to ring
6 to 12 months
Which age is the following?
Looks at pictures in books
6 to 12 months
Which age is the following?
Object permanence is present
6 to 12 months
What does object permanence mean?
If they don’t see it, then it doesn’t exist
That’s why peekaboo is so fascinating to them
What age is the following?
Imitates putting objects in a box
12 months
What age is the following?
Labels one object
(Ex: Giving name to a bottle or blanket or toy)
12 months
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Follows one-step directions (follow simple commands)
Ex: stand, sit, go, come, sleep, etc.
12 months
What age is the following?
Points to three body parts (hair, eyes, nose)
12 months
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Identifies pictures in a book
12 months
Which age is the following?
Points to parts of doll on requests
( ex: “where’s her eye?” )
12 months
Which age is the following?
Discriminates two common objects (cup, box)
12 months