Introduction to Child Development Flashcards
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What is Child Development
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The study of the patterns of growth, change, and stability that occur from conception through adolescence.
2
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What are the key contributors to Children’s Development?
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Culture, Socioeconomic Status, Gender, Caregivers
3
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What were the Historical Views on Children?
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Miniature adults, original sin, blank slates, innate goodness
4
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What are the domains of development? VS the stages of development
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Physical, cognitive, social, emotional
Prenatal, Infancy/toddlerhood, Pre-school/early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence
5
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Controversies
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Nature vs Nurture, Continuous vs Discontinuous change, Direction of effects are unidirectional/bidirectional/transactional, critical vs sensitive periods, early vs later experiences
