Human Development Flashcards
Social development at 4-6 weeks?
Social smile at 6 weeks
Recognize mums face
Shows preference for human faces
When goes grasp reflex disappear?
3 months
When can a baby localize a sound source?
3 months
Which language task occurs at 6 months?
Double syllable sounds
When does stranger anxiety occur?
9-10 months
When can peek-a-boo be played?
9-10 months
When can a baby crawl?
9-10 months
When can a baby say 1-2 words?
1 year
When does separation anxiety occur?
1 year
When can a child walk alone?
18 months
When can a child use a spoon?
18 months
When can a child build a tower of 3-4 cubes?
18 months
When can a child make sentences?
2 years
When does a child show parallel play?
2 years
When is a child dry by day?
2 years
When does a child have imaginary companions?
3 years
When can a child copy a circle?
3 years
When can a child draw a man?
3 years
When can a child build a tower of 9 cubes?
3 years
When can a child copy a triangle?
5 years
When is a child fluent with grammar?
5 years
When can a child copy a diamond?
6 years
When can a child roll over?
6 months
Social development at 9 months?
Stranger anxiety followed by object permanence
Language development at 1 year?
One or two words
Key concepts of Piaget’s Organismic stage theory
Development occurs in stages with transition occurring due to interaction between child and environment.
Key concepts of Psychosocial stage theory?
Psychosocial developmental stages are characterized by conflicts but resolution is not mandatory for further development.
Key concepts of Vygotsky’s collaborative learning theory?
Development is not private - child acts as an apprentice in social surroundings. Parents/teachers carry out scaffolding to introduce familiarity for child to develop own expertise.
What is zone of proximal development in collaborative learning theory?
Functions not yet fully achieved but in process of pipeline whose development is aided by scaffolding.
Key concepts of Maturational growth theory (Gesell)?
Maturation of nervous system as principal driver of various aspects of human behavior.
What develops at oral stage?
Ego
What occurs in anal fixation?
OCD like pattern, ambivalence and sadomasochistic tendencies.
What is fear of retaliation in both boys and girls?
Boys - castration anxiety
Girls - loss of mothers love
What is the positive stress response in children?
Brief, mild response
Moderated by availability of carer
Growth-opportunity
What is tolerable stress response in children?
Exposure to non-normative experience e.g. death in family.
What is toxic stress response in children?
Strong, frequent or prolonged activation of body’s stress response in absence of protection from adults.
Disrupts brain circuitry
When does attachment behavior peak?
12-18 months
Phases of attachment according to Bowlby
Pre-attaching
Indiscriminate attachment
Clearcut attachment
>25 months - mother is independent
When does preattachment phase occur?
Birth to 8-12 weeks
When does indiscriminate attachment occur?
8-12 weeks to 6 months
When does clear-cut attachment occur?
6-24 months
Describe Type A attachment
Anxious avoidant. 15% Indifferent attitude to mother leaving/entering. Distressed when alone. Stranger can comfort child.
Describe Type B attachment
70%
Distressed when mother leaves.
Comforted by mother, not by stranger.
Describe Type C attachment
Anxious resistant.
15%
High level of distress, especially when mother leaves. Not comforted by mother and resistant to stranger.
What are the four patterns noted from the Adult attachment interview?
Secure autonomous
Dismissing of experiences
Entangled
Unresolved disorganized
What are Mahler’s stages?
Normal Autism (0-2 months)
Symbiosis (2-5 months)
Separation - individuation
What are the sub-phases of separation-individuation phase?
Differentiation (5-10m)
Practicing (10-18m)
Rapprochement (18-24m)
Object constancy (2-5 years)
What happens during differentiation?
What happens during differentiation?