Midterm Flashcards
What three factors impact the development of humans?
- Sports
- Nutrition
- Attitude
How do genetics impact the overall development of humans?
Genes inherited from parents and passed down through generations influence our physical characteristics, intelligence, behavioural patterns, and personality traits.
How do prenatal experiences and possible exposure impact overall development?
Life in the womb based on mothers behaviour during pregnancy directly impacts growth and development of baby. Example: FASD - impacts higher cortical functioning brain regions, impact depends on the timing and amount of alcohol exposure
How does the environment and living experiences impact development?
Primary relationships and attachment, living environments, socio economic status, education, culture, religion, and ideology impact living experience and determine your development
Define attachment.
When a parent responds to a child who is frightened, ill, or hurt, in a consistent and sensitive way and makes them feel safe, secure, and protected.
What are the four steps to establishing secure attachment?
- Attachment system activates
- Primary caregiver responds
- Attachment system turns off
- Secure attachment is achieved
Name and describe the first step in establishing a secure attachment.
Attachment system activated - child becomes frightened, ill, or hurt.
Name and describe the second step in establishing a secure attachment.
Primary caregiver responds - A primary caregiver responds quickly and consistently in a sensitive manner that makes the child feel safe, secure, and protected
Name and describe the third step in establishing a secure attachment.
Attachment system turns off - Baby is comforted when caregiver responds and is able to resume exploring or play
Name and describe the fourth step in establishing a secure attachment.
Secure attachment achieved - Baby has secure attachment and is likely to go on and be a confident, emotionally stable adult who will do well in life and socially
What are the two elements of a sensitive response?
- Positioning
- Mood
What is a sensitive response?
When a caregiver responds with mood and positioning.
What mood is appropriate for a sensitive response?
- Warm response
- Kind tone and volume
- Gentle and assured
What positioning is appropriate for a sensitive response?
- At the child’s level
- In close proximity
- Face to face
- Establish eye contact
- Look at the baby’s face
What is temperament?
Temperament is a set of in-born traits that organize the child’s approach to the world and the general disposition of their characteristics.
What are the three basic temperaments?
- Easy/flexible child
- Difficult/feisty child
- Slow to warm/fearful child
Define the easy/flexible temperament.
Generally happy, rhythmic biological functioning, accepts new experiences, adapts to new situations, accepts frustration with little fuss
What strategies can you use when working with the easy/flexible temperament?
- Check in often
- Encourage them to communicate feelings and needs to others
- Encourage them to seek help when needed
Define the slow to warm/fearful temperament type.
Mild and quiet, slow to adapt to new situation, sleeps and eats more regularly than feisty child
What strategies would work with a slow to warm/fearful child?
- Provide them with additional preparation and support for new situations
- Set a predictable environment and stick to routines
- Be there to support them
Define the difficult/feisty temperament type.
Tend to be more irritable and harder to please, irregular biological rhythms, intense expressions of emotions
What strategies would you use to work with difficult/feisty temperament?
- Provide opportunities to make choices
- Engage in gross motor to burn excess energy
- Help them transition smoothly
- Describe their feelings
What are the 5 R’s of self regulation?
- Reframe
- Recognize
- Reduce
- Reflect
- Respond
Describe the first step of self regulation.
Reframe
- Pause
- Ask why and why now?
- Be aware of cognitive blinders
- Reevaluate the situation with soft eyes
Describe the second step of self regulation.
Recognize
- Look at the 5 domains of stressors and how they are interacting and exacerbating each other
What are the 5 domains of stressors?
- Biological
- Emotional
- Cognitive
- Pro social
- Social
What is the third step of self regulation?
Reduce
- Look for what in the environment can be changed or removed to reduce stress
What is the fourth step of self regulation?
- What worked? What didn’t
- Am I aware of what brought the child back to calm?
- Am I aware of my own calm?
What is the fifth step in self regulation?
- Develop strategies for self and the child to promote restoration and resilience
What is shark music?
Children’s feeling that trigger strong emotions. Past experiences that make us feel uncomfortable with and afraid of certain moods.
What is your shark music?
When someone or a child is ungrateful or not making use of something, or when I’ve done everything I can to respond to and help someone but they are unhappy and critical. This is based on previous experiences in my life.
How can you deal with your shark music when working as an ECE?
I can personally work on resolving my previous negative experiences, focus on what the child needs, and use self regulation strategies of my own so that I can be there to support the child
