Development Flashcards
norms
Societies values and customs which a person in that society would be governed by
Moral development
Children’s growing understanding about right and wrong
Autonomous
Rules can be decided by the individual person
Heteronomous
Rules put into place by others
moral
are standards of behaviour of right and wrong
Incremental theory/motivational framework
believe that effort drives behavior and ability which can change
“Entity theory/motivational framework
believe the behavior or ability results from the persons nature
Resilient
“Refers to being able to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties
Person praise
It’s implies that a child possesses a fixed and positive quality
Process praise
It emphasizes a child’s effort strategies or actions
School readiness
How prepared you are to go to school to go and learn at school on a daily basis
self regulation
It means being able to control your emotions and behavior regarding one thing and do something else instead
working memory
Involves different processes that make use of information that comes in through our five senses
growth mindset
believing practice and effort can improve your abilities
fixed mindset
believeing your abilites are unchangeable or fixed
effort
when you try to do better using determination
ability
what someone is capable of doing
mindset
Set of beliefs someone has that guides house someone responds to or interprets a situation
Adaptation
Using assmilation and accommodation to make sense of the world
Equilibrium
When a child schemas can explain all the experience basically a state of mental balance
accomodation
When a schema has to be changed to deal with a new experience
assmilation
Incorporating new experiences into existing schemas
Centration
Focusing on one feature of a situation and ignoring other relevant features
decentration
The ability to take in multiple views of the situation
Conservation
It’s the ability to understand that some features of an object may change while others remain the same
morality
It’s the general principles about what is right and wrong including good behavior and bad behavior
operations
It’s how we reason and think about things
animism
It’s believing or objects that are not alive can behave as if they’re alive
Egocentricity
It’s when children are an able to see the world from any other view points but their own
Representational play
It’s a form of make-believe play
Symbolic representation
When a child can never present events in their mind and anticipate events
Object permanence
It’s the ability to appreciate things exist even when they cannot be seen
schema
schema is a type of mental structure that we use to help organize knowledge of the world
involuntary response
It’s a response to a stimulus so they are automatic such as reflexes
medulla
it connects the upper body to the spinal cord and controls automatic response
Cerebellum
An area of the brain near the brain stem that controls movements or muscle activities
posterior
back part of the brain
Anterior
front part of the brain
Hind brain
The lower part of the brain that includes the cerebrum pons and medulla oblongata
midbrain
The middle section of the brain forming part of the central nervous system
forebrain
the anterior part of the brain which includes the hemispheres and central brain structures
brain
the organ in your head made up of nerves that process information and control behaviour
