Final Exam Flashcards
Child growth and development consists of _______, _______, and _______, growth.
Physical, social, emotional
What segment of lifespan development does child development focus on?
Child development focuses from conception to adolescence: 0 - 20 years old
Dividing the years from birth to adulthood into into time periods is a _______.
Social construction
Prenatal period is the time between conception and birth, typically ___ weeks
38
According to Freud’s _______ theory, child development occurs in a series of stages focused on different pleasure areas of the body
Psychosexual
Age:
Infanthood (___ - ___)
Toddler (___-___)
Early Childhood (___-___)
Middle Childhood (___-___)
Comprise Childhood (___-___)
Adolescence (___-___)
Age:
Birth - 1
1 - 5
3 - 8
9 - 11
3 - 11
12 - 18+
What is the difference between nature and nurture?
Nature: physical and genetic factors affect a child’s development
Nurture: environmental factors affect a child’s development
What are some of the limitations/flaws of Piaget’s theory?
Overestimating adolescent aptitude (natural abilities)
Underestimating newborn potential
Disregards environmental factors on child development
What are the three independent components of personality in Freud’s Structural Paradigm?
Id - instinctive sexual aggressions (unconscious)
Ego - mediating between id and superego (conscious)
Superego - morals and conscience (preconscious)
What are the stages of Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychosexual development?
Oral: mouth - sucking, swallowing, etc.
Anal: anus - potty training
Phallic: sexual organ - masturbation
Latent: N/A - social
Genital: sexual organ - sexual intercourse
What are Erik Erikson’s stages of Psychosocial Development?
Trust v. Mistrust: birth - 18 months: hope
Autonomy v. Shame and Doubt: 18 months - 3 years: will
Initiative v. Guilt: 3 - 5 years: purpose
Industry v. Inferiority: 5 - 13 years: competency
Identity v. Confusion: 13 - 21 years: fidelity
Intimacy v. Isolation: 21 - 39 years: love
Generativity v. Stagnation: 40 - 65 years: care
Integrity v. Despair: 65+ years: wisdom
What does Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory say?
Learning is contingent (dependent) upon culture and varies amongst cultures. Vygotsky signifies that educators take into account the effect of cultures on the learning environment.
Dominant/recessive interactions are the most frequent type of allele-allele interaction. When one dominant allele crosses with a recessive allele, what is the allele of the offspring?
Dominant
What are the three stages of prenatal development?
Germinal: 0 - 2 weeks
Embryonic: 3 - 8 weeks
Fetal: 9 weeks - birth
The growth of your child is influenced by your child’s genes as well as other elements including a _______, _______, _______, and _______. Your child receives the nutrition and energy from healthy meals that they require to grow and thrive.
balanced diet, regular exercise, health, neighborhood
The desire to master _______, _______, and _______ and _______ abilities in newborns and toddlers persists as they get older.
movement, balance, fine and gross motor
_______, _______, _______, _______, _______, and _______ are all aspects of cognition. Our cognitive abilities assist us in organizing our information and applying it to new situations.
Language, creativity, thought, reasoning, problem-solving, memory
Social and Emotional development
A child’s ability to establish and maintain deep connections with both adults and other children is referred to as social development. The ability of a kid to express, identify, and manage his or her emotions as well as react appropriately to those of others is known as emotional development.
What are the 7 stages of human body growth?
Infant development
Toddler development
Preschooler development
Middle Childhood development
Adolescent development
Adult Development
8 Early Stages of Brain Development
Neurulation
Proliferation
Cell migration
Differentiation
Synaptogenesis
Synapse pruning
Myelination
Summary
What is gross motor and fine motor development?
Gross: involves larger body muscle movement
Fine: involves smaller body muscle movement
_______, _______, and _______ can encourage brain growth whereas _______ and _______ exposure can have long-term harmful effects on a child’s brain. An important public health objective is to guarantee that parents, caregivers, and early childhood care providers have the tools and abilities to offer _______, _______, _______, and _______.
Talking, reading, playing…stress, trauma…secure, stable, caring, stimulating care
According to Piaget’s theory, children advance through the phases of cognitive development through maturation, methods of discovery, and some social transmissions through _______ and _______.
Assimilation, accomodation
An approach to cognitive development studies called ______________ theory seeks to explain how information is stored in memory.
Information processing
As adults, it is difficult to conceive of life without a sense of “_______.”
self
Morality refers to standards that guide people’s judgments about what is _______ and _______, and about _______. It involves _______, _______, _______, and it is fundamental and important in our relationships with others.
right, wrong, justice,…cognition, affect, behavior
What is the importance of forming a secure attachment in infancy?
To develop a foundation for healthy parent-child relationships and social emotional adjustment. Style of parenting – responsive parenting – that can foster children’s secure attachment.
Are the changes of the brain during the middle years more dramatic than changes in the early years?
No
Why does body growth occur slowly during middle childhood ages?
It gives children time to adjust to their bodies and learn to use them more effectively.
Children of age 2-6/7 are considered _______ because they lack cognitive _______-actions that are carried out and reversed mentally
preoperational, operations
Emphasis on deeper, more enduring qualities over surface appearances
concrete operations
The understanding that quantities such as numbers, weight, volume, or area stay the same even when appearances are altered
conservation
According to Piaget, the ability to solve conservation problems depends on an understanding of three basic aspects of reasoning.
identity, compensation, and reversibility
If nothing is added or taken away, an item stays the same
identity
An apparent change in one direction can be compensated for by a change in a another direction
compensation
A child can mentally cancel out the change that has been made
reversibility
A child’s ability to focus on a single characteristic of objects in a set and group the objects according to the characteristic
classification
The process of making orderly arrangements from large to small or vice versa
seriation
The area between a child’s current development level and the level of development that a child could achieve with support from others
zone of proximal development (ZPD)
Designed to promote learning, but is not a traditional lecture or discussion
instructional conservation
The understandings and skills developed over generations that families need to function
funds of knowledge
Attention disorders and impulsive-hyperactivity disorders
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
The work space of the memory system where new information is combined with existing knowledge
working memory
Where well-learned knowledge is stored more permanently
long-term memory