Mod 5: Early Childhood Flashcards
Myelination Synapses
Allows electrical impulses to transmit quickly and effectively along nerve cells.Allows an exam to communicate with its myelin sheath
Pruning
The brain removing unnecessary synapses and strengthens appropriate ones, increasing the neural processes becoming quicker and more complex
Synaptogenesis
forming connections between neurons in the nervous system
Irreversibility
(promising something then not fulfilling it)
The young child’s difficultly mentally reversing a sequence of events
Theory of Mind
develops by age 4
the understanding that the mind holds people’s beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions. Understanding people think differently and have different preferences
Autism
resistant deficits in social communication and interaction across multiple contexts as well as restrictive behaviors and interests
Signs of Autism in toddlers (5)
- no babbling by 12 m
-no gesturing by 12 m - no single words by 16m
- no two word phrases by 24m
- loss of any language or social skills at any age
Preoperational stage
age 2-7
children learning to use language and think about the world symbolically helping to develop the foundations needed for the next stage
Egocentrism
tendency to think that everyone sees things in the same way as the child
animism
the belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities
artificial is
the belief that environmental characteristics can be attributed to human actions or interventions
Transduction reasoning
when a child fails to understand the true cause and effect relationships
syncretism
the tendency to think that two events occurring simultaneously had a causal relationship
Centration
the act of focusing all attention on one characteristic or dimension of a situation and disregarding others
pieces of cake vs size of pieces
Conservation
the awareness that altering a substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties
sandwhich cut in half