Test 1 Flashcards
(31 cards)
Related to vision, the process of the human eye changing shape that maintains a clear retinal image in the presence of varying light conditions.
Accommodation
According to Piaget , a facet of adaptation in which humans attempts to interpret new experiences based on their present interpretation of the world.
Assimilation
The development or growth of the human being from the top of the body, the head, downward toward the “tail”, or the feet. Literally meaning “from the head to the tail.”
Cephalocaudal
The ability to arrange a set of items by certain characteristics like length.
Seriation
A perspective recognizing that factors other than age have effects on intellectual change across time, i.e., situational factors.
Contextual Perspective
Factual information or an awareness of something like an event, an object, or even an idea.
Declarative knowledge
A process of learning and social development which occurs as we interact with one another and become familiar with social worlds”
Socialization
Using knowledge and awareness of developmental change to tailor programs to meet the needs of children, rather than expecting children to adjust to the demands of a specific program.
Developmentally appropriate
An activity that is usually enjoyable and that the participant cherishes. It is a major socializing force and crucial to learning the rules of society.
Play
The progression from gross, immature movement to precise, well-controlled, intentional movement as segments of the body develop a unique duty or specialization in a movement.
Differentiation
Movement governed primarily by the small muscles or muscle groups.
Fine movement
Movement primarily controlled by the large muscles or muscle groups.
Gross movement
The quantitative and structural (physical) increases that occur with age.
Growth
Memory that is unintentional, automatic, or without awareness.
Implicit memory
Piaget’s term for cognitive development, which enables the replacement of “thinking with the body” by thinking with the mind.
Sentimental functioning
An ability to employ various muscle systems simultaneously; a synonym for coordination.
Intergration
Qualitative and functional changes that occur across time
Maturation
A proposed cycle during adulthood depicting the gradual disengagement from physical activities, causing declines in motor ability and physical declines—including percent fat increases, muscular atrophy, and energy level reductions—resulting in a cyclical decrease in physical activity.
Exercise aging
An investigational approach to motor development that emphasizes the movement itself (technique) over attention to the movement’s outcome.
Process approach
Cognitive development
Social dev
Language
Physical
4 domains of development
Clark and Metcalfe’s representation (metaphor) of human motor development that combines a description of the expected changes in motor development across the lifespan with explanations for how these changes may ensue. Change in movement behavior across the lifespan is represented as an ascent (progression) or descent (regression) up a mountain.
Mountain of motor dev
reflexes, primary circular reactions, secondary circular reactions, coordination of reactions, tertiary circular reactions, and early representational thought.
Sensorimotor substages
Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development, which spans the first two years of life, in which knowing and thinking emerge as a result of action that occurs via bodily movement.s
Sensorimoto stage
Piaget’s second major stage, beginning at around 2 years and spanning the next 5 years in which the child becomes more imaginative in play and recognizes that everyone views the world from a slightly different perspective. Language development is one of the most important characteristics of this stage.
Preoperational stage
