Child Development Lectures 1 and 2 Flashcards
(28 cards)
Childhood Resilience
The ability to bounce back after tough times
Four factors that support childhood resilience
Family, Friends, Physical health, and disposition (FFPD)
average public school enrollment in US
526
Average number of children that attend public schools
50 million
Number of children that attend charter schools
3.4 million
Three core considerations of a teacher who strives to effectively appropriately teach young chlidren?
Commonality, individuality and idiosyncrasy, and Context in which we learn (CIIC)
Is human development continuous or discontinuous?
There are periods of progress, regression, and latency, which makes it discontinuous.
Erik Erikson stage 1
Trust vs Mistrust
Erik Erikson stage 2
Autonomy vs shame
Erik Erikson stage 3
Initiative vs guilt
Erik Erikson stage 4
Industry vs inferiority
Jean piaget stage 1
Sensorimotor (birth-2 years)
Jean piaget stage 2
Preoperational (2-7)
Information processing theory
thought of human brains as manipulating systems
Cognitive Neuroscience
combines psychology, medicine, biology, chemistry and neuroscience to explain how humans think, solve problems and adapt to new learning situations
Ethology
compares survival behavior of humans to animals
Sensitive period (critical period)
Optimal time for skills and behaviors to emerge. Humans are highly responsive during this time
What was Vygostky’s belief about learning?
He believed that you can’t learn by yourself and you need other people to learn
Zone of proximal development (bottom)
Independent learning and prior knowledge
Zone of proximal development (top)
beyond abilities or comprehension
Zone of proximal development (middle)
Learning with social support with an adult or peer
Bronfrenbrenner’s theory includes:
microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem
Microsystem
Things that directly affect us
Mesosystem
When two or more microsystems interact
