Understanding ECE Flashcards
Pattern of movement at conception and continues through lifespan of human being
Human development
Human dev Includes what?
Growth and decline
Deals with quantitative changes measurable
Growth
Deals with qualitative changes, unmeasurable
Development
Fully grown and developed physiolohical
Maturation
Principle of human dev number 1
Dev is relatively orderly
Inward outward
Proximodistal attern
Head to toe
Cephalocaudual
Principle of HD 2
Pattern of dev is likely similar
principles of HD 3
Dev also takes place gradually
Principles hd 4
Dev as a process is complex
Physical changes
Biological process
About knowledge thoughts and language
Cognitive processe
Focus on dealing people
Socio emotional
Approaches to hd… Believe individual shoes extensive changes from birth to adult.
Traditional approach
Approaches to hd…. Dev change takes place as it does during childhood to adulthood
Lifespan approach
Germanist psychologist
Paul baltes
Description of Paul baltes
German psychologist
Leading expert on life span dev and aging
Goes to process of changing
As long as we live there is a development
Dev is lifelong
Dynamic interaction like physical emotional and psychosocial dev
Dev is multidimensional
Dev is possible throughout lifespan
Dev is multidirectional
Characteristics are malliable or changeable
Dev is plastic
Individual change because the world is changing
Dev is contextual
Dev of certain traits cam be characterized as having the capacity for both an increase decrease in efficiency over the course of an individual’s life.
Dev is multidisciplinary
Child is inherently selfish and bad. Due to societies task
Original sin
Children were born good with intuitive understanding of right and wrong
Inherently good
Children’s are in blank slate waiting to be weiteen by his own experince
Tabula rasa
Biological
Nature
Influenced
Nurture
Exploring the world
Active
Need someone to influence him her
Passivity
Small steps
Continuity
Big steps
Discontinuity
