Infancy Flashcards

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What is Erickson’s Trust vs. Mistrust?

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Allows for development of relationships with others

Warm, responsive care leads to sense of trust

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Erickson’s Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt

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Improved mental and motor skills allow for choice

Parental permission for reasonable choice without the use of shame

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Erickson’s Initiative vs. Guilt

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3-6

Make believe play

Ambition and responsibility

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4
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Industry vs. Inferiority

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6-11

School, work and evaluation

Peer relations and cooperation

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Identity vs Identity Diffusion

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Adolesence

Who am I?

Self-chosen values and goals

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Intimacy vs. Isolation

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Young adulthood

Establishment of intimate ties to others

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Generativity vs. Stagnation

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Middle Adulthood

Giving to the nex generation through caring for children, productive work

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8
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Ego Integrity vs. Despair

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Old age

Relfection on life and worth

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9
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What did Piaget focus on?

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Theory of cognitive development

Cognition changes quantitatively and qualitatively

Children create schemas – way of organizing things in metnal representations

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What is assimilation?

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Adds information to current schemas

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What is accommodation?

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Change schema to add information that previously did not fit

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Piaget’s Sensorimotor Stage

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Birth-2

Acquire schemas by acting on world and experiencing things with senses

Start by repeating chance behaviors

By 8-12 months, infants can make intentional behaviors

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Piaget’s Preoperational Stage

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2-7

Begin to use symbols to represent earlier discoveries

Make-believe play

Development of language

Thinking lacks logic –Animism, Egocentrism

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Piaget’s Concrete Operational thought

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7-11

Reasoning beomes logical

Conservation

Organize into classes, hierarchies

Not yet abstract, still need direct experience with the world

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Piaget’s Formal Operational Thought

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11 years on

Reason with symbols that don’t have to have meaning in and of themselves i.e. algebra

Can think of multiple solutions to the same problem

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16
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Infant Temprament

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Infants born with certain characteristics

Activity level, attention, self-regulation etc.

17
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What is goodness of fit?

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The parent-child interactions

E.g. laid back parent, and high-maintenance child

18
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What reflexes are infants born with?

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Some form basis of later motor skills

Survival value

Rooting, Moro

19
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How much to babies sleep?

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Typically between 16-18 hours a day

Sleep cycles become more organized as development occurs

REM sleep important for CNS

20
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How is an infant’s sense of touch?

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Most well developed at birth

21
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How is an infant’s sense of taste?

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Sweet, sour and bitter are distinguishable at birth

Salty comes later

22
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How is an infant’s sense of smell?

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Certain odors are preferred

Can distinguish mother’s milk

23
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Sense of balance?

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Postural control improves over the first year

Ability to use variety of sources of information
–proprioceptive, vestibular, optical flow

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Infant’s sense of hearing?

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Well developed at birth

Prefer complex vs. pure tones

4-7 months, sense of musical and speech phrasing

Prefer mom to other women, native to foreign language

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Sense of Vision?

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Least mature sense

Limited visual acuity, eye movements are slow and inaccurate

20/20 by 6 months

Color perception stable by about 4-5 months

26
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Describe infants social capabilities

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Newborns can imitate facial expressions

Social smile by 1-2 months

Intentional laughing at 3-4 months

Increased smile for familiar people at 6 months

27
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When do infants develop different smiles?

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10-12 months

28
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When should an infant be able to turn over, transfer items from hand to hand?

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4 months

29
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When can an infant sit without support?

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6-7 months

30
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When does teething occur?

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6-8 months

31
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When does fear of strangers, crawling occur?

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8-12 months

32
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When does an infant have their first words, start walking?

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12-15 months

33
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What are the phases of attachment?

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Pre-attachment - Birth to 6 weeks

Attachment in the making - 6 weeks to 6-8 months

Clear cut attachment - 6-8 months to 18 months - 2 years

Formation of reciprocal relationship - 2 years on

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What is secure attachment?

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Parent is a secure base that child can use to explore form

35
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What is avoidant attachment?

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Child is unresponsive to parent and is usually not distressed

36
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What is resistant attachment?

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Child seeks closeness, fails to explore, may appear mad or upset

37
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What is Disorganized/Disoriented attachment?

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Child shows the greatest insecurity, may appear confused, dazed, flat, odd postures