Human Development Exam 2 Flashcards

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What is the Zone of Proximal Development

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  • Skills children can accomplish alone vs accomplished by an adult or competent peer
  • VYGOTSKY
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Scaffolding

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  • degree of assistance provided to the learner in the zone of proximal development.
  • increasing as learner’s skills develop
  • “bracing”
  • VYGOTSKY
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Pre-operational period

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  • Age 2-7 yrs, can represent the world symbolically
  • unable to decenter thinking
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Egocentrism

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  • Pre-operational
  • inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and another person’s
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Centration

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  • Focused on one aspect of a cognitive problem, while excluding another important aspect
    • egocentrism
    • collective monologues
    • conservative problems
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Collective Monologues

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  • a person talking and not paying attention to others
  • children playing together, but are in their own world not paying attention to one another
  • conversations don’t relate collectively
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Theory of Mind

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  • Ability to understand thinking processes in one’s self and others
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What is the appearance reality confusion

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  • Children believe change in apperacne changes the object itself
  • Imagination
  • Disney world, believe thay met donald duck
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9
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3 Mountain Problem

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  • how the mountain looks from the opposite person’s point of view.
  • Tests egocentrism
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10
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Conservation of Liquid Task from Pre-operational Child

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  • Same amount of liquid is poured in 2 different shapes
  • Child thinks they have different amounts
  • exclude other important aspectis
  • CENTRATION
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What is an example of appearance reality task?

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  • rock looks like a sponge
  • when child discovered he/she was wrong, claims he/she alwas knew it was a sponge instead of a rock
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12
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What helps children perform better on false-belief or appearance reality tasks?

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  • put into cultural context
  • use things that child knows more about
  • mountains—> colorado
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13
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What develops according to information processing approach?

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  • Memory, Attention, Strategies
  • Continuous
  • flipbook
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14
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How do we test cognitive inhibition in early childhood?

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  • disengaging/re-directing
  • Go/No-Go
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15
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Theory of Mind Test- Sally Anne

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  • Sally has a basket
  • Anne has a box
  • Sally places a marble in her basket
  • Sally leaves and anne places marble in her basket
  • Where will Sally look for her marble?
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Pro-social Behavior

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  • voluntary action to benefit others
    • sharing, helping, caregiving, showing compassion
  • not good until age 6
  • example- model it, provide kids the opportunity to participate
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17
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The ability to understand and respond helpfully to another person’s distress

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empathy

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18
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Learning the standards, values and knowledge of your society

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Socialization

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Self Concept

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  • phys & psych attribute that is unique to ea. individual
  • view of self in relation to others
    • attributes, abilites, values
  • WILLIAM JAMES
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Gender-Role Identity

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  • Babies look the same
  • MEDIA, flower headbands
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Gender Stability

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  • 5-6 yrs
  • Awareness that sex is constant over time
  • Less awarness when dressed in opposite sex clothing
  • KOHLBERG
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Gender Constancy

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  • gender does not change with activies or appearances
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Self Regulation

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  • The abilit to controls one’s emotional behavior and internal states
    • regulate emotions
    • physicology
    • thought
    • behavior
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Bandura’s view on gender development

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  • Social learning
  • modeling-imitating
  • pretend to mow the lawn like Dad
  • differential reinforcement
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Kohlberg’s view on Gender development

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  • Stage theorist
  • Discontinous/Cognitive Approach
    • basic sex role
    • gender stability
    • gender constancy
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26
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How is self regulation tested

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  • Marshmallow Test
  • Broken Toy Gift
  • Clean up Song
  • Attractive toy on shelf (don’t touch)
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27
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4 Categories of Social Play

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Vygotsky- learn by more skilled peers

  1. Solitary
  2. Parallel play- sharing materials
  3. Associative play- same toys & interacting (not the same goals
  4. Co-op- fantasy play. Role playing, goals.
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28
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What are the 4 Parenting Styles

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  1. Authoritative
  2. Authoritarian
  3. Permissive
  4. Rejecting
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What is Authoritative Parenting

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  • high warmth/high demand
  • high responsiveness
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Outcomes of Authoritative style

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  • independent
  • creative
  • self assured
  • socially skilled
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31
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What is authoritarian parenting?

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  • high demand
  • low response
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Outcomes of Authoritarian parenting

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  • dependent
  • passive
  • conforming
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33
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What is permissive parenting?

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  • low demand
  • high response
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Outcomes of Permissive Parenting

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  • irresponsible
  • conforming
  • immature
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What is disengaged parenting

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  • low demand
  • low response
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36
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Outcomes of Disengaged parents

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  • impulsive
  • behavior problems
  • early sex, drugs
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37
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How do pre-schoolers describe themselves?

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  • Very positive
  • Pre-operational
  • NO social comparison
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38
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Rules about structure & sequence of speech sounds. Need to hear sound distinctions.

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Phonology

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39
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The way concepts are expressed (vocab words). Word pairing and overall comprehension.

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Semantics-

watch sesame street with kids. talk to child a lot

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40
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the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language

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syntax

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41
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Strategies Used to be effective & culturally appropriate. When to be quiet, eye contact, personal space.

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Pragmatics

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42
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  • Soft murmuring sound
  • pre-language sounds
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cooing

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43
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At 6 months babies do this so they can hear themselves

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babbling

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44
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That high pitched voice your grandmother’s to articulate so baby understands. High pitched. Repeated words/phrases.

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infant directed speech

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45
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Where is broca’s area

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left frontal lobe specialied for language production

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46
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Wernicke’s Area

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  • left temporal lobe specialized for language production
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47
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A single word that represents whole sentences. Ex- “cup”= fill my cup

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Holophrase

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48
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2 Word phrases that strip connecting words (and, the) “More Cookie”

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telegraphic speech

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49
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Use word narrow mindedly. Ex- that’s not a dog, I have a real dog

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Underextension

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50
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A single label where adults would use many. Ex- milk, all men are daddys

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overextension

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51
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Forming quick associations, learning a new word ina structured social interaction. Adults need 10 exposures. 4 year old needs 1 exposure.

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Fast Mapping

52
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Applying gramatical rules even to words that are an exception to the rule. Ex- “mouses” instead of “mice”

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Overregularization

53
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The smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language. Ex- trans-plant-ed

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Morphemes

54
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Smallest sound cateogires that distinguis meanings. At 6 months children can hear distinctions, dicriminate native sound.

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Phonemes

55
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Language meaning + language context. How many words can you use?

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Receptive language

  • 13-14 months 100 words
  • 2 months 10 words
56
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According to Chomsky, innate feature of the brain that enables children to pereceive grammatical rules in the languge around them

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Language Acquisition Device

57
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grammatical forms used with newly coined words

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productive language

58
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What is the problem of reference

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  • Ambiguity of words
  • overextension/underextension
59
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What is the nativist position?

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Chomsky, children learn language at birth innate ability.

60
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What are problems with the nativist acquisition of LAD

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  • no LAD has been discovered in the brain
  • not a unique human trait
  • Behaviorist believe that babies learn from imitation and practice with parents
61
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Protein deficiency in childhood. Swollen belly. lethargy, irritability, hair thinning.

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Kwashiorker

62
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when the body wastes away from lack of nutrients

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marasmus

63
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7-11 yrs. Can comprehend more than one aspect at a time. Concrete- operational thinkier.

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Decentration

64
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Understanding relationship among things.

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Categorization

  • pre-ops can’t sort
65
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Ability to arrange things in a logical order. Shortest to longest, thinnest to thickest, etc.

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Seriation

66
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Ability to place objects in a logical order mentally

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transitive inference

67
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Understanding relationship between party and whole. Ex- Are there more tulips or more flowers?

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Class Inclusion

(pre-ops don’t get it)

68
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Working Memory

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ACTIVE short term memory. Temporary storage and manipulation of information

69
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Repeating same information over and over

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Rehearsal

70
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Placing things mentally into meaningful categories to help you remember

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organization

71
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The best strategy. Connecting bits of information and putting them together to help remember. Making a story

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Elaboration

72
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Awareness of one’s own thought processes. Understanding how memory works.

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Metacognition/Metamemory.

73
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Obesity

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  • having a BMI exceeding 21
  • 25% of children in the U.S.
74
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Body Mass Index

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a weight-to-height ratio

75
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Ability to focus attention on relevant information and disregard what is irrelevant

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selective attention

76
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entry points for raw information from all the senses. If we do not process this information further, it disappears.

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Sensory Register

77
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Continuing storage of information

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long-term memory

78
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Drives the whole system (e.g. the boss of working memory) and allocates data to the subsystems

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Central Executive

79
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How to promote healthy eating in children

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  1. Imitate adults and peers
  2. pleasant mealtime climate (not in front of TV)
  3. Introduce new foods without pressure (you can’t have this, its big-kid food)
80
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What are 3 contributing factors to childhood obesity

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  1. Stress
  2. TV
  3. Genes
81
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What are 2 consequences of childhood obesity

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  1. depression
  2. less likely to marry
82
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What would you recommend for intervention to childhood obesity

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  1. access to healthy foods- gardens at schools
  2. 60 min of activity ea. day
  3. social support
83
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3 Types of Attention Memory Strategies

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  1. Rehearsal
  2. Organization
  3. Elaboration
84
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4 components of information processing model

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  1. Attention memory strategy
  2. Sensory Register
  3. Working Memory
  4. Long-term Memory
85
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Hostile Attribution Bias

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  • he did it on purpose
  • aggressive child’s interpretation
  • aimed at hurting another
86
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Evaluation of one’s own behavior, ability, expertise and opinions by comparing them to others.

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Social Comparison

87
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An individual overall and specific positive/negative self evaluation

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self esteem

88
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children who are well liked by their peers (high # of nominations)

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popularity

89
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aimed at obtaining something because they want a toy.

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Instrumental Aggression

90
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physical aggression

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  • biting, hitting
  • boys more likely
91
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relational aggression

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  • spreading rumors
  • hurtin social status or reputation of another
  • girls more likely
92
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one sibling acts as parental figure. Usually a female and older.

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Caregiver Sibling Relationship

93
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Siblings treat each other like friends

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Buddy Sibling relationship

(gold standard)

94
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Critical Sibling Relationship

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high conflict, teasing, hostile. Happens more at divorce

95
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Use each other as a benchmark

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Rival Sibling Relationship

96
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Don’t have a lot to do with each other

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Causal Sibling Relationship

97
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Behavior includes being friendly, helpful, cooperative, considerate

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social skills

98
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How do middle childhood aged children describe themselves

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  • Both negative and positive
  • focus on abilities and interpersonal characteristics
  • Social Comparison
    • ex- sometimes I am a really good friend
99
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4 factors that relate to status with peers

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  1. High achievers
  2. Easy temperment
  3. attractive
  4. Parenting styles
100
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2 Types of rejected children

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  1. Aggression- violent
  2. withrawn- shy immature
101
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Sociometric

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Who do you like

102
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The neglected child…

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  • Temproray status.
  • By themselves.
  • No nomiations.
  • Ignored
103
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The controversial child…

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  • high positive and high negative
  • mixed nominations
104
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3 Correlates of Chronic peer rejection

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  1. emotional difficulties
  2. substance abuse
  3. Escape behaviors

(ability to socialize gets worse and worse because they lose the opportunity to get better)

105
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Trends in self esteem across lifespan

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  • The higest during centered phase (for women highest it will ever be)
  • Men decrease at retirement
  • Women decrease when husband dies
  • Women increase during child-bearing years
106
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What aspect of self-esteem is most highly correlated with global self esteem

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physical appearance

107
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3 Correlates of low self-esteem

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  1. Depression,
  2. delinquency
  3. poor social relationships
108
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Cycle of Low Self-Esteem

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  1. Low self esteem-low performance expectation -reduced effort (or high anxiety)-actual failure
109
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How might self-esteem be improved

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  1. increase emotional support
  2. coping skills
  3. increase competency (c-A student)
  4. Lower importance ratings
  5. increase effort, decrease anxiety
110
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Historical changes in U.S. families

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  • same sex marriage
  • single parents
  • later marriage
  • divorce
  • families not having as much time
111
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Negative impacts of divorce during childhood development

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  • School failure
  • substance abuse
  • delinquency
  • sexual behavior
112
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What are effects of re-marriage

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  • re-occurence of problems for girls.
    • new father become authoritative
  • for boys- new father like a friend
  • mother-daughter fierce fighting
113
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How to mitigate problems of divorce?

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  • joint custodoy
  • best living arrangement? Who you had best relationship with.
  • parents shouldn’t stay together for kids
114
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Intelligence

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  • abstract
  • things you learn over time
    • reasoning, solving problems
115
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Who designed the intelligence quotient

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Binet & Simon

116
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Intelligence Quotient

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  • Score of mental ability as assessed
  • calculated relative to other people at the same age
117
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What is IQ designed for

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predict whether or not you are likely to succeed in school

118
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3 Factors that contribute to test bias in IQ

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  1. language and language customs
  2. test content
  3. testing conditions

Culturally biased. Schools don’t care that its biased, cultures should adapt.

119
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flynn effect

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  • increase in the average test scores over time
  • have to make tests harder, because teachers are teaching the tests
120
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Crystallized Intelligence

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  • accumulated knowledge and skills
121
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Fluid knowledge

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  • the ability to see relationships
122
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Entity View of Ability

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  • the belief that ability is fixed and not improvable with effort/learning
123
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Incremental view of ability

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  • the belief that ability is something that can be improved
124
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Mastery Oriented Attributes

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  • success due to internal factors
  • incremental view
  • failure is due to low effort or external factors
  • Learning goals-through effort
125
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Learned Helplessness Attributes

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  • success due to external factors, luck
  • failure due to low ability
  • entity view
  • performance goals- positive over neg evaluations