Growth + development of children Flashcards
Metalinguistic awareness
School-aged child ( 6-12)
Demonstrates parallel play
Toddler (1-3)
Magical thinking
Preschooler ( 3-5 )
Educating parents about what to expect in development
Anticipatory guidance
Play telephone, finger paint, blocks, pots and pans, board books - appropriate toys for …
Toddler (1-3)
Closure of anterior fontanel
18 months
Paperback books, board games, action heroes, scrapbook, baseball cards - appropriate toys for…
School-age children (6-12)
Theory of psychosexual development
Freud
Theory of cognitive development
Piaget
Theory of psychosocial development
Erikson
Puppets, legos, simple card games, pretend food, crayons, dress-up clothes - appropriate toys for …
Preschoolers ( 3-5)
Concerned with body image
Adolescent
Return to an earlier developmental stage
Regression
Trunk to extremities growth
Proximodistal
Able to face forward in car seat
20 pounds and age 2
Distress over parent leaving
Separation anxiety
Increase in physical size
Growth
Head to toe growth
Cephalocaudal
Sequential process of gaining various skills and functions
Development
The way someone reacts to environment
Temperament
Mobiles, rattles, unbreakable mirrors, soft dolls, musical toys - appropriate toys for…
Infants (birth - 1)
Food high in iron
Watermelon
Places child at risk for accidental poisoning
Undeveloped taste discrimination
Able to use a booster
40 pounds - age 4
Avoid in children under 1 year
Honey ( botulism )
Precaution to reduce SIDS
“Back to sleep” position
Demonstrated by “peak a boo”
Object permanence
Trust vs Mistrust
Infant - Trust = Consistency
Infant - no head lag ; grasps rattle
5 months
Infant - crawls ; finger foods
9 months
Infant - walks ; feeds self; pokes + points with finger ; single words with meaning ; separation anxiety
12 months