Test #2 Flashcards

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Animism

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The belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of action

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Egocentrism

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Cannot distinguish one’s own perspective from someone else

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2
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Conservation

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Altering a substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties

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3
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Scaffolding

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Changing the level of support during a teaching session

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4
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Privates peach

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Use of language for self-regulation

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5
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Gross motor skills

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  • Large muscle activity

* arms legs

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Fine motor skills

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  • Finely tuned movements

* fingers

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7
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How do children in early childhood represent the world around them?

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Words, images, drawings

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8
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Early childhood cognition is dominated with what?

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Egocentrism and magical beliefs

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9
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Magical beliefs

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Disconnect between cause and effect.

Cookies must be in cookie box

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10
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Types of abuse

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  • Physical
  • neglect (physical, education,emotional)
  • Sexual
  • Emotional
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11
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Self-regulation

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Improves through first year, self talk helps

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12
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Self-conscious emotions

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Require self-awareness or a sense of "me"
•jealousy
•empathy
•embarrassment
•Pride
•Shame
Not before 6 months but within 2 years
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13
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Parenting styles

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  • Authoritarian
  • Authoritative
  • Neglectful
  • Indulgent
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14
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Processing social cues

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Social referencing

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15
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Schemes

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Actions or mental representations that organize knowledge

  • behavioral (sucking, grasping)
  • mental (Orange, orange)
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16
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Assimilation

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Occurs when children use their existing schemes to deal with new information

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17
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Accommodation

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Occurs when children adjust their schemes to take new information and experiences into account

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18
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Object permanence

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The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched.

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19
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Eyesight at birth

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Newborn 20/240

6 months 20/40

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20
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Habituation

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Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations

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21
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Goodness of fit

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The match between a child’s temperament and the environmental demands the child must cope with

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22
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Temperament

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Individual differences in behavioral styles, emotions, and characteristic ways or responding
•easy
•difficult
•slow to warm up
•unclassified
23
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Emotions

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Feeling or affect, that occurs when a person is in a state or an interaction that is important to him or her, especially to his or her well-being

24
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Three types of cries

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  • Basic cry
  • anger cry
  • pain cry
25
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Attachment

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A close emotional bond between two people

26
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Smile

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  • Reflex smile

* social smile

27
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Perception

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The interpretation of what is sensed

28
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Imitation

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Imitative abilities are biologically based and are characterized by flexibility and adaptability

29
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ZPD

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(Zone of proximal development)

Range of tasks that are too difficult for the child alone but that can be learned with guidance

30
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Gender roles

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Sets of expectations that prescribe how females or males should think, act, and feel

31
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Gender identity

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The sense of being male or female

32
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Reflexes

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Built in reactions to stimuli; automatic and inborn

33
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SIDS

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Sudden infant death syndrome

  • highest cause of infant death in U.S
  • highest risk is 2-4 months
34
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Cephlocaucal

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Sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs from the top downward

35
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Proxiomodistal

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Sequence in which growth starts in the center of the body and moves toward the extremities

36
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Stranger anxiety

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  • Fear or weariness of strangers

* starts at 6 months, intensifies at 9 months, decrease at 12 months

37
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Repeated experience

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Wires and retires the brain

38
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Broca’s and Wernicke’s area

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Broca= language production

Wernicke= language comprehension

39
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Sequence of talking

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Birth= crying
2-4= cooing
5= understand first word
6= babbling begins
7-11= from universal linguist to language specific listener
8-12= gestures, comprehension of words
13= first word spoken
18= vocab spurts
18-24= two word, rapid expansion of understanding words
40
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Frontal lobe

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  • Voluntary movement
  • thinking
  • personality
  • intentionality or purpose
41
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Occipital lobe

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Function in vision

42
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Temporal lobe

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  • Hearing
  • language
  • processing
  • memory
43
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Parietal lobe

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  • Spatial location
  • attention
  • motor control
44
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Basic cry

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Rhythmic pattern with brief silence, short breath of air.There is a pause then the main cry

45
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Anger cry:

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More Air Force through vocal cords

46
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Pain cry:

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Sudden long cry followed by breath holding

47
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Easy child:

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40%

Positive mood,adapts easily,establishes routine

48
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Difficult child:

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10%

  • Reacts negatively
  • cries frequently
  • irregular routines
  • slow accept change
49
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Slow to warm up:

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15%

  • Low activity level
  • Low intensity
  • Somewhat negative
50
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Unclassified:

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35%

Display varying types or did not fit

51
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Authoritarian

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Parents demand obedience and respect

52
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Authoritative

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Encourages children to be independent while placing limits and controls on action

53
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Neglectful

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Parent is very uninvolved in child’s life

54
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Indulgent

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Parents highly involved but place few demands or controls on the child