Potter (2019) pp. 343 - 357 Flashcards
Developmental Theories
The quantitative or measurable aspect of an individual’s increase in physical measurements.
Growth
A progressive and continuous process of change leading to increased skill and capacity to function.
Development
The word meaning ‘from head to toe’.
Cephalocaudal
The word meaning ‘from trunk to the extremities’.
Proximodistal
Difficult to measure in exact units.
Development
The characteristic psychological disposition with which the child is born, typically ranging from difficult to flexible.
Temperament
An organized, often observable, logical set of statements about a subject.
Theory
The explanatory components of each theory or the means by which the developmental tasks are achieved.
Mechanisms
These theories describe and explain how the physical body grows and changes.
Biophysical Developmental
Maternal diseases, drugs, X-rays, or other hazardous substances that interfere with the normal development of a fetus.
Teratogens
All of these theories give some credence to the roles of nature (genetics) and nurture (caregiving environment and resources).
Biophysical Developmental
Through extensive observations in the 1940s, he developed behavioural norms that serve as a primary source of information for childhood development today.
Gesell
Fundamental to his theory of development is the notion that the pattern of growth and development is directed by the activity of genes.
Gesell
He believed that environmental factors can support, change, and modify the pattern but do not generate the progressions of development.
Gesell
He proposed that the pattern of maturation follows a fixed developmental sequence in all humans and that critical periods exist in which the presence or absence of particular experiences makes a biological system functional or nonfunctional.
Gesell
Based some of his observations on the visual system.
Gesell
The biological internal regulatory mechanism that governs the emergence of all new skills and abilities that appear with advancing age.
Maturation
Involves an individual’s biological ability, physiological condition, and desire to learn more mature behaviour.
Maturation
An example of this is a child relinquishing crawling for walking because walking permits greater investigation of the environment and more learning. However, the child cannot walk until the biological ability and structures to perform the action (i.e., increased muscle cells and tone) have developed.
Maturation
The process by which cells and structures become modified and refine their characteristics.
Differentiation
True or false: development of activities and functions progresses from simple to complex.
True
A physical and emotional response style that affects a child’s interactions with others.
Temperament
It is the way a person adjusts to life experiences and it is thought to originate within the person’s genetic makeup.
Temperament
Their work defined the concept of temperament and they proposed that temperament is biologically derived.
Chess and Thomas
They described three common categories of temperament.
Chess and Thomas
This child is easygoing and even-tempered, regular and predictable in his or her habits, and open-minded, flexible and adaptable to change. Mood expressions are mild to moderately intense and typically positive.
Easy
This child is highly active, irritable, and irregular in habits. Negativity in interactions and withdrawal from other people is typical and the child requires a highly structured environment. He or she adapts slowly to new routines, new people, or new situations. Mood expressions are usually intense and primarily negative.
Difficult
This child typically reacts negatively and with mild intensity to new stimuli. He or she adapts slowly with repeated contact unless pressured and responds with mild but passive resistance to novelty or changes in routine.
Slow-to-Warm
These theories focus on reasoning and thinking processes, including the changes in how people perform intellectual operations.
Cognitive Developmental
These theories emphasize that although the developmental process originates with the person, it is greatly influenced by interactions between the person and the environment.
Cognitive Developmental
His theory of cognitive development addresses the development of children’s intellectual organization and how they think, reason, perceive, and make meaning of the physical world.
Piaget
His theory includes four periods, each of which subsumes a number of stages.
Piaget
He acknowledged that biological maturation plays a role in this developmental theory but believed that rates of development depend on the intellectual stimulation and challenge in the environment of the person.
Piaget
Found that children acquire knowledge through acting on the environment. In other words, the individual plays an active role in his or her development.
Piaget
The process of making sense of new information in comparison with what is already known.
Assimilation
The process of adapting ways of thinking to a new experience or new information.
Accommodation
Represents adaptation of the patient to new health challenges.
Assimilation & Accommodation
These theories are a subset of cognitive theory and describe the development of moral reasoning.
Moral Developmental
The ability of an individual to distinguish right from wrong and to develop ethical values on which to base his or her actions.
Moral Development
This maturity is the internalization of the principles-that is, the desire to weigh all of the relationships and circumstances before making a decision.
Moral
His theory of moral development presents three stages of morality: the premoral stage, the conventional stage, and the autonomous stage.
Piaget
In this stage of morality, the child feels no obligation to follow rules.
Premoral
In this stage of morality, children follow the rules set up by people in authority, such as their parents, teachers, clergy, or police.
Conventional
In this stage of morality, moral judgements are based on mutual respect for the rules. A person also considers the consequences of a moral decision and makes judgements that involve others.
Autonomous
He identified six stages of moral development occurring at three levels.
Kohlberg
He theorized that a child’s moral development does not advance if the child’s cognitive development does not also mature.
Kohlberg
She believed that men and women develop in parallel ways, with one not being superior to the other.
Gilligan