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Physical Growth

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Adequate nutrition and exercise

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Alcohol & Drug Abuse

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Irreparable brain damage to unborn children and low birth weights are only a few causes of abnormal physical and emotional development

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Infants: 7 months

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Crawling

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Infants: 8 months

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Eating with hands (finger foods)

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Infants: 9 months

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Sit up (alone)

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Infants: 11 months

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stand up (alone)

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Infants: 12 months

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Body weight triples

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12-15 months to 2.5 years

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Toddlers (Walking, Feed Self, Self-Control, Learn through Play, expresses utilizing “no”, Toilet-training)

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Preschool

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Exit of Toddlerhood-Entry into Kindergarten

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Elementary

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6-10 in girls; 6-12 in boys

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Adolescence

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Begins at 10, girls/ Begins at 12, boys

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Behaviorism

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first significant theory of development

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John Watson

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1900s; originated the behaviorist movement

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Conditioned Response

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Child was “taught” to respond in a particular way to a stimulus that would not naturally elicit that response.

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Ivan Pavlov

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Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)

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Edward Thorndike

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1900s; developed own form of behaviorism: Instrumental Conditioning

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Law of exercise

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Conditioned response can be strengthened by repeating the response (practice)

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Law of effect

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Rewarded responses are strengthened while punished responses are weakened

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B.F. Skinner

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Most influential behaviorist; believed students learned when teachers gave immediate positive feedback

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Operant Conditioning

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studies how voluntary behavior could be shaped

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Positive Reinforcement

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(Reward)

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Negative Reinforcement

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Students escape punishment by repeating desired responses

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Extinction

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Undesired responses are not reinforced

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Punishment

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Undesired responses are punished

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Jean Piaget

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most prominent of cognitive psychologists

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Stage theory

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currently the most popular form of child development; helps you understand the general way students learn and develop concepts

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Sensorimotor

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(birth to 18 months)

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Preoperational

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(18 months to 7 years)

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Concrete Operational

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(7-12 years)

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Formal Operational

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(12+ years)

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Sigmund Freud

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Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939); believed that humans pass through 4 stages of psychosexual development: oral, anal, phallic, and genital and personality itself consists of the id, ego, and superego

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Erik Eriksen

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Built on Freud’s work and partitioned the life span into 8 psychosocial stages, 4 of which fall within the school years: Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs. Inferiority, Identity vs. Identity Confusion, Intimacy vs. Isolation

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Inititiative vs. Guilt

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Kindergarten: Children accepted and treated warmly tend to feel more comfortable; rejected children tend to become inhibited and guilty

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Industry vs. Inferiority

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Elementary Grades: Students who are accepted by their peers do well in school and are more successful than those who do not feel good about themselves

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Identity vs. Identity Confusion

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Grades 6-9: Students who establish an identity and a sense of direction and who develop gender, social, and occupational roles experience an easier transition into adulthood than those who do not establish these roles.

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Intimacy vs. Isolation

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Grades 10-12: Students who have passed successfully through the other stages will find it easier to establish a relationship with a member of the opposite sex while others may experience a difficult transition into adult life.

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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proposed three levels of moral development with two stages at each level: Preconventional Morality, Conventional Morality, and Postconventional Morality

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Preconventional Morality

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(preschool and primary grades)

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Conventional Morality

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(middle grades through high school)

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Postconventional Morality

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(high school and beyond)

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Albert Bandura

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leading social learning theorist

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modeling

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when children act the way the see others act, or they learn vicariously by observing others

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Nature vs. Nurture

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nature (heredity and genes) vs. nurture (environment and experience)

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American schools

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based upon teachings of Pestalozzi and Herbart

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Maria Montessori

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established her school, Casa Bambini, in 1908

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John Dewey

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established the first “progressive” school in the 1900s

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progressive education movement

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sought to build a curriculum around the child rather than around the subject matter

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essentialist movement

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teacher-centered classroom

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federal government

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-took a more active role in the schools since the Depression of the 1930s

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Public Law 94-142/99-457

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federal government’s first direct intervention in school instruction

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Public Law 98-199

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mandates transitional services for high school students

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Bruner/Process of Education

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urged student’s active involvement in the learning process.

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Skinner/behaviorism

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Skinner thought learning material should be broken down into small manageable steps; students taught step by step and rewarded for success

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Piaget

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posited that students go through stages as they develop concepts: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational

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