Unit 1 Flashcards
What is growth
Measurable
Variable
Physical
What is development
Aquisition
Sequence
Skills and abilities (Intellectual, Emotional and social)
What are the four stages of play
Soliatry play (birth-2 years)
Parallel play (2 + years)
Associate play (3-4 years)
Coorperative play ( 4+ years)
What is nature
Environmental factors
What is nuture
genetic
Piaget’s theory
Cognitive development theory:
Sensoromiter: birth-2
Preporational: 2-7
Concrete operational: 7-11
Formal operational - 12 +
Chomsky’s theory
Language Acquisition Device:
Part of the brain for language
Brain grows and matures so vocabulary increases
Active theory
Older people remain happiest if they use free time to engage in social activities and hobbies.
Stimulating brain slows and declines in short term memory
Less stress and healthy immune system
Social Disegagement Theory
Biological natural process of ageing, which is accepted by all.
Unconsciously withdrawl
Loss of independence and reliance
Preporational stage
Animism- children treat objects as if they’re alive
Reversibility- children can’t work backwards with there thinking
Dominant senses- conversation
Egocentrism- seeing the world from only their POV
Sensoromiter stage
Body schema- infants exist physically
object premaneance - newborn thinks objects dissapear
Formal operational
Adolescents develop thinking about abstract problems.
Able to think logically.
Concrete operational
conversation- now understood as long as it can be visible seen
Egocentric is overcome and they stop animism
Linguistic humour- they understand some jokes and enjoy games
What is assimilation
Take in new info or experiences and incooperate them into our existing ideas
What is schemas
Basic building block of intelligent behaviour
What is equilibration
The cognitive balancing of new info with old knowlege
what is accomodation
What occurs when new info or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas
Bowlby’s findings
Delinquency, depression, reduced intelligence, increased aggression, emotionless pyschopathy
Bandura’s Social Learning Theory
Bobo doll experiment - children observed teachers violence and mimicked their behaviour
findings - environmental nurture influences effects on social development
Gessel’s Maturatation Theory
Observed through concaved one way mirror, infants and children
Belived that individuals development was determined by their DNA
Ainsworth
A child with the anxious- avoidant insecure attachment style will avoid or ignore the caregiver, showing little emotion when the caregiver returns.
Ainsworth
A child who is securely attached to its main caregiver will play and explore while the caregiver is present.
Ainsworth
Disorganized was observed such as hunching the shoulders, putting hands behind the neck and tensely cocking the head
Ainsworth
Anxious/ resistant - showing distress even before seperation and clingy to confront
