Unit 1

Question 1

What is growth

Answer 1

Measurable
Variable
Physical

Question 2

What is development

Answer 2

Aquisition
Sequence
Skills and abilities (Intellectual, Emotional and social)

Question 3

What are the four stages of play

Answer 3

Soliatry play (birth-2 years)
Parallel play (2 + years)
Associate play (3-4 years)
Coorperative play ( 4+ years)

Question 4

What is nature

Answer 4

Environmental factors

Question 5

What is nuture

Answer 5

genetic

Question 6

Piaget’s theory

Answer 6

Cognitive development theory:
Sensoromiter: birth-2
Preporational: 2-7
Concrete operational: 7-11
Formal operational - 12 +

Question 7

Chomsky’s theory

Answer 7

Language Acquisition Device:
Part of the brain for language
Brain grows and matures so vocabulary increases

Question 8

Active theory

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Social Disegagement Theory

Answer 9

Biological natural process of ageing, which is accepted by all.
Unconsciously withdrawl
Loss of independence and reliance

Question 10

Preporational stage

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Sensoromiter stage

Answer 11

Body schema- infants exist physically
object premaneance - newborn thinks objects dissapear

Question 12

Formal operational

Answer 12

Adolescents develop thinking about abstract problems.
Able to think logically.

Question 13

Concrete operational

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is assimilation

Answer 14

Take in new info or experiences and incooperate them into our existing ideas

Question 15

What is schemas

Answer 15

Basic building block of intelligent behaviour

Question 16

What is equilibration

Answer 16

The cognitive balancing of new info with old knowlege

Question 17

what is accomodation

Answer 17

What occurs when new info or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas

Question 18

Bowlby’s findings

Answer 18

Delinquency, depression, reduced intelligence, increased aggression, emotionless pyschopathy

Question 19

Bandura’s Social Learning Theory

Answer 19

Bobo doll experiment - children observed teachers violence and mimicked their behaviour
findings - environmental nurture influences effects on social development

Question 20

Gessel’s Maturatation Theory

Answer 20

Observed through concaved one way mirror, infants and children
Belived that individuals development was determined by their DNA

Question 21

Ainsworth

Answer 21

A child with the anxious- avoidant insecure attachment style will avoid or ignore the caregiver, showing little emotion when the caregiver returns.

Question 22

Ainsworth

Answer 22

A child who is securely attached to its main caregiver will play and explore while the caregiver is present.

Question 23

Ainsworth

Answer 23

Disorganized was observed such as hunching the shoulders, putting hands behind the neck and tensely cocking the head

Question 24

Ainsworth

Answer 24

Anxious/ resistant - showing distress even before seperation and clingy to confront