test 2 deck 2

Question 1

Early childhood physical development

Answer 1

CNS develops, steer/peddle tricycle, throwing/catching a ball, jumping/hopping/skipping

Question 2

middle childhood physical development

Answer 2

refinement of motor skills, gain in flexibility/agility/balance, efficiency in information processing, physical growth slows

Question 3

drawing at 1 year

Answer 3

random scribbles and lines

Question 4

drawing at 2 years

Answer 4

rough circles, horizontal/vertical lines, loops/spirals

Question 5

drawing at 3-4 years

Answer 5

shapes taking form (triangles/circles/squares) TUV letter shapes then full letters

Question 6

drawing 5 years

Answer 6

adult pencil grip has formed

Question 7

drawing 6-7 years

Answer 7

child has their own style of drawing, representative and realistic, no depth cues yet

Question 8

middle childhood drawing skills

Answer 8

increase in organization and depth cues . ability to draw 2D shapes and relate objects to one another

Question 9

writing preschool age

Answer 9

mostly scribbles, no discrimination between drawing and writing

Question 10

writing age 4

Answer 10

beginning to look like printing

Question 11

writing age 4-6

Answer 11

children now are starting to realize that the letters and scribbles mean language

Question 12

writing age 5

Answer 12

proper pencil grip and can hold a constant pencil angle

Question 13

mirror images of letters

Answer 13

very hard to discriminate the image and the writing until children start reading

Question 14

middle childhood writing

Answer 14

major gains in uppercase letters first then lowercase letters later.

Question 15

self help skills

Answer 15

dress and undress themselves (4-5) using a fork to eat (4) using a knife with softer foods (5)

Question 16

physical activity

Answer 16

helps mental health and motor skills as well as cognitive and social skills to get along with others

Question 17

Recess

Answer 17

shown to decrease disruptions in class, source of informal child organized games, improves academic performance

Question 18

rough and tumble play

Answer 18

friendly/playful chasing. more common in boys. used to establish dominance heierarchy

Question 19

haptic perception

Answer 19

touch is first felt in 2 moths utero.

Question 20

skin to skin contact

Answer 20

elicits baby behavior (rooting, suching, looking for nipple, staying calm, staying warm, maintaining blood sugar

Question 21

smell perception

Answer 21

smell is very keen and improves lots within the first 3 days of being born

Question 22

distinguishing smells

Answer 22

newborns can tell the scent of their mother from other women withing 3 days of being born

Question 23

newborn sound discrimination

Answer 23

newborns can tell what their mothers voice sounds like compared to other women (but cannot tell their fathers) and prefer it

Question 24

pattern perception

Answer 24

newborns prefer a pattern over plain stimuli

Question 25

Gibson and Gibsons ecological approach

Answer 25

interactionist approach, we perceive things as a whole then need to learn to decide what the situation gives/affords us

Question 26

environmental/learning theory of perceptual development

Answer 26

emphasis on needs of experience to organize complex perceptions from simple sensations

Question 27

biological theory of perceptual development

Answer 27

there are innate aspects of perception that allow babies to perceive the world

Question 28

invariant features

Answer 28

features of environment that remain stable

Question 29

locomotion

Answer 29

movement of person walking through space(walking or crawling)

Question 30

prehension

Answer 30

ability to grasp/manipulate objects with he hands, using them as tools

Question 31

postural development

Answer 31

control of the body