Developmental Flashcards
Compare and contrast a critical period and sensitive period.
A critical period is a limited period of time when exposure to certain environmental events is necessary for development to occur. A sensitive period is usually longer and is a period of time when its optimal (but not necessary) for certain environmental events to occur.
According to Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory, what is the microsystem?
The child’s immediate environment (parents, siblings, friends, and others at home, school, and church)
Mesosystem
interactions between elements of the microsystem
exosystem
elements of the environment that impact the child’s immediate environment (caretakers’ places of work, extended family, and community health services)
macrosystem
social and culture environments
chronosystem
events that occur in a person’s lifespan and impact development. Examples include parental divorce, birth of sibling, natural disaster
____occurs when children inherit genes from their parents that predispose them to have certain characteristics and are exposed to environments that support the development of those characteristics
Passive genotype-environment correlation
A sociable child reacts to others in ways that encourage them to respond to the child in socially reinforcing ways. What is this an example of?
evocative genotype-environment correlation
a child’s genetic make-up evokes certain kinds of reactions from people that reinforce the genetic makeup
What is active genotype environment correlation?
niche-picking and occurs when children seek experiences that “fit” their genetic predispositions
what kind of factors does epigenetics look at?
pattern of gene expression without altering the genetic code
According to Bouchard and Mcgue (1981), list highest heredibility combos to lowest combos for IQ (TOP five).
1) Identical Twins raised together
2) Identical Twins raised apart
3) Fraternal Twins reared together
4) Bio siblings raised together
5) Bio parent and child
When a child learns the word for dog, they start to call all four-legged animals dogs. What is this an example of?
Assimilation
a young child may have an established scheme in which he or she calls any large item with wheels a car. The child points at a large wheeled item with a box on the back and says “car!” The child’s father responds, “No, that’s a truck!” The child repeats, “Truck!” and proceeds to identify another similar vehicle in the same way, indicating that he or she_______ the scheme
accommodated.
During this stage of cognitive development, learning about the environment occurs through sensory input and motor actions. Birth-2 years
Sensorimotor Stage
What happens during the preoperational stage and how old are children going through it?
- 2-7 years old
- more sophisticate forms of make believe
- limited due to transductive reasoning and egocentricism
- -They can’t conserve. (think water glass example)
- -They can’t conserve because of centration(focus on only one aspect) and irreversibility.
This stage is characterized by being able to do basic math. They can conserve. Ages 7-12
Concrete operational
Describe the formal operational stage and age
- -12 years old-adulthood
- -hypothetical-deductive reasoning: can derive and test out hypotheses
- -propositional thought-evaluate logic of verbal statements
- -renewed egocentricism
Name the six substages of the sensorimotor stage
-reflective reactions
-primary circular reactions
-secondary circular reactions
-coordination of secondary circular reactions
-tertiary circular reactions
internalization of schemas
Reflective Reactions
Sensorimotor
(0-1 month)Responds to external stimuli with innate reflexes
Primary circular reactions (Sensorimotor)
(1-4 month)Repeats enjoyable actions involving his/her own body (e.g., sucks thumb, kicks legs)
Secondary circular reactions (Sensorimotor)
(4-8 months)Reproduces actions involving objects (e.g., shakes rattle to hear sound) and imitates familiar actions of others
Coordination of Secondary Circular Reactions
*(8-12 months)Intentionally combines secondary reactions to achieve goals (e.g., drops small toy in a cup and then picks up the cup) and imitates actions of others that aren’t in their repertoire
Tertiary Circular Reactions
12-18 months
When they deliberately experiment to discover consequences and find new ways to achieve goals.
Internalization of schemas
18-24 months
Develops mental representations of reality and solves some problems mentally.
This is when represenational thought occurs.