Infant Childhood Development

Question 1

What to ask ourselves about a child’s behaviour to see if it’s awry?

Answer 1

1. appropriate for age?

2. appropriate for context?

Question 2

is only bad behaviour concerning?

Answer 2

Unproblematic behaviour could indicate anxiety or fear of independence

Question 3

what are stage-salient issues?

Answer 3

tasks at each stage of development need to be mastered

Question 4

development occurs over multiple domains:

Answer 4

1. physical
2. cognitive
3. social + emotional

Question 5

Piaget’s stages what happens in concrete operational? age?

Answer 5

age 7-12

logical reasoning about events, ideas, stimuli

Question 6

Piaget’s stages what happens in formal operational? age?

Answer 6

age 12+ abstract and hypothetical reasoning

Question 7

Piaget’s stages what happens in preoperational stage? age?

Answer 7

age 2-7 representing world through language, symbols, internal representations of the world

Question 8

Piaget’s stages what happens in sensorimotor stage? age?

Answer 8

age 0-2 learn about world through exploration

Question 9

What is a child vulnerability to risk factors?

Answer 9

difficult temperament

Question 10

4 protective factors for kids against risk?

Answer 10

1. easy temperament
2. high intelligence
3. positive parenting
4. positive stable relationship with adult

Question 11

kids difficult with what kind of explanations?

Answer 11

logical ones

Question 12

preschoolers think how?

Answer 12

literal, concrete

magical thinking

Question 13

preschoolers and analogies?

Answer 13

hard for them to understand

Question 14

preschoolers like to be given?

Answer 14

choices

Question 15

how to preschoolers usually think they get sick?

Answer 15

contagion

Question 16

primary school how to they think they get sick? analogy understand?

Answer 16

start to understand beyond contagion
peers
simple analogies

Question 17

pediatric communication important how to use?

Answer 17

unambiguous language

reducing threat-related language

Question 18

eg. of honesty while promting coping

Answer 18

kids say it’s sore but I know you’re brave and think you can do it