Defentions Flashcards
(21 cards)
Grasping reflexes
A infants cloning response to a touch on the palm of his or her hand.
Rooting reflex
An infants response in turning toward the source of touching that occurs anywhere around his or her mouth.
Maturation
The internally programmed growth of a child.!.!.!.!.!.!.!
Telegraphic speech
The kind of verbal utterances in which words are left out, but the meaning is usually clear.
Schema
A conceptual frame work a person uses to make sense of the world.!.!.!!.!.!
Assimilation
The process of fitting objects and experiences into one schemas.!.!.!.!.!!.!
Accommodation
The adjustment of ones schemas to include newly observed events and experiences.
Object permanence
A child’s realization that an object exists even when he or she cannot see or touch it.
Representational thought
The intellectual ability of a child the picture something in his or her mind.
Conservation
The principle that a given quantity does not change when it’s appearance is changed.
Egocentric
A young child’s inability to understand another persons perspective.!.!.!.!.!
Imprinting
Inherited tendencies or responses that are displayed by newborn animals when they encounter r new stimuli in their environment.
Critical period
A specific time in development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned.!.!.!.!.!.!..!
Authoritarian family
Parents attempt to control, shape, and evaluate the behaviour and attitudes of children in accordance with a set code of conduct.
Democratic and quthroative family
Children and adolescent participate in decisions affecting their lives.
Permissive/aliases-afire family
Children and adolescents have the final say;parents are less controlling and have a nonpunishing, accepting attitude toward children.
Socialization
The process of learning the rules of behaviour of the culture within an individual is born and will to live.!.!.!.!.!.!
Identification
The process by which a child adopts the values and principles of the same sex parent.
Sublimation
The process of redirecting sexual inpulses into leading tasks.
Role taking
Children’s play that involves assuming adult roles, thus enfolding the child to experience different pints of view.
Uninvolved
This type of parenting were typically egocentric in their child rearing and seemed uncommitted to their roles and quite distant from their children l.
