Human Development Exam 2 Flashcards
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What is the Zone of Proximal Development
- Skills children can accomplish alone vs accomplished by an adult or competent peer
- VYGOTSKY
Scaffolding
- degree of assistance provided to the learner in the zone of proximal development.
- increasing as learner’s skills develop
- “bracing”
- VYGOTSKY
Pre-operational period
- Age 2-7 yrs, can represent the world symbolically
- unable to decenter thinking
Egocentrism
- Pre-operational
- inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and another person’s
Centration
- Focused on one aspect of a cognitive problem, while excluding another important aspect
- egocentrism
- collective monologues
- conservative problems
Collective Monologues
- a person talking and not paying attention to others
- children playing together, but are in their own world not paying attention to one another
- conversations don’t relate collectively
Theory of Mind
- Ability to understand thinking processes in one’s self and others
What is the appearance reality confusion
- Children believe change in apperacne changes the object itself
- Imagination
- Disney world, believe thay met donald duck
3 Mountain Problem
- how the mountain looks from the opposite person’s point of view.
- Tests egocentrism
Conservation of Liquid Task from Pre-operational Child
- Same amount of liquid is poured in 2 different shapes
- Child thinks they have different amounts
- exclude other important aspectis
- CENTRATION
What is an example of appearance reality task?
- rock looks like a sponge
- when child discovered he/she was wrong, claims he/she alwas knew it was a sponge instead of a rock
What helps children perform better on false-belief or appearance reality tasks?
- put into cultural context
- use things that child knows more about
- mountains—> colorado
What develops according to information processing approach?
- Memory, Attention, Strategies
- Continuous
- flipbook
How do we test cognitive inhibition in early childhood?
- disengaging/re-directing
- Go/No-Go
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Theory of Mind Test- Sally Anne
- Sally has a basket
- Anne has a box
- Sally places a marble in her basket
- Sally leaves and anne places marble in her basket
- Where will Sally look for her marble?
Pro-social Behavior
- voluntary action to benefit others
- sharing, helping, caregiving, showing compassion
- not good until age 6
- example- model it, provide kids the opportunity to participate
The ability to understand and respond helpfully to another person’s distress
empathy
Learning the standards, values and knowledge of your society
Socialization
Self Concept
- phys & psych attribute that is unique to ea. individual
- view of self in relation to others
- attributes, abilites, values
- WILLIAM JAMES
Gender-Role Identity
- Babies look the same
- MEDIA, flower headbands
Gender Stability
- 5-6 yrs
- Awareness that sex is constant over time
- Less awarness when dressed in opposite sex clothing
- KOHLBERG
Gender Constancy
- gender does not change with activies or appearances
Self Regulation
- The abilit to controls one’s emotional behavior and internal states
- regulate emotions
- physicology
- thought
- behavior
Bandura’s view on gender development
- Social learning
- modeling-imitating
- pretend to mow the lawn like Dad
- differential reinforcement

