Sept 10. Ch 1

Question 0

What are the stages of childhood?

Answer 0

Prenatal

Infancy to toddlerhood

Young childhood

Middle childhood (6-11)

Adolescence

Question 1

What are the 3 domains of development?

Answer 1

Physical development

Cognitive development

Emotional & social development

Question 2

What is the difference between continuous development and discontinuous development?

Answer 2

Continuous development is commulative development. gradually adding more of the same type of skills that were aalready there.

e discontinuous development is when you learn new ways of understanding and responding to the world
Abilities emergent specific ages

Question 3

What are cognitive theories?

Answer 3

Theories which focus on how kids think, process and know information to do with their knowledge, memory and speed of processing.

Question 4

What are sociocultural theories?

Answer 4

Theories dealing with the importance of social, cultural and historical context.

for example kids going up in Vancouver today versus kids from 100 years ago versus kids in the Third World versus kids and a favela

Question 5

What are learning theories?

Answer 5

How children know and learn what is rewarded or watch they see others being rewarded for.

For example reinforcements versus punishments.

Question 6

What form of learning theory works better for adolescents? what form of learning theory works OK for children?

Answer 6

Reinforcements work better for adolescents. Punishment works okay for children.

Question 7

What are psychoanalytic theories? and which theorist is credited with much of the breakthroughs in this subject?

Answer 7

Freud. How childhood experiences are lodged in the unconscious. Child development affected by gratifying id impulses. Stages of child development that must be reached and resolved. Stages resolve around location of gratification.

Question 8

What is the evolutionary perspective?

Answer 8

We are products of thousands of years of natural selection.

Process = functional design

For example. Children can learn language easily but after puberty they lose this ability.

Question 9

How do adaptations develop?

Answer 9

For example finding fruit. Vegetation is green. Berries and fruit are often read. Adaptation in visual system is the ability to seethe color red so that fruit can be identified.

Why do sharks have also teeth and humans have a different shape?