Understanding Child Development

Question 1

Human development is a pattern of movement that begins at______and continues through the________of a well human being

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Conception and lifespan

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Human development is also includes

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Growth and decline

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Human development can be

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Positive or negative

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Is the process of becoming fully grown and developed and involves physiological and behavioral aspect of an individual

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Maturation

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Development refers to behavioral changes and functionabilities and skills does developmental changes are qualitative that is not easily measured

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Development

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Is the quantitative measurable changes in physical size of the body and its parts

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Growth

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The development is from head to toe and from top to bottom

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Cephalocaud pattern

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He lives that individual will show extensive change from birth to adolescently littke or no change in adulthood and decline in the late old age

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Traditional approach

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The development from inward to upward

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Proximodistal pattern

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Believes that even in adult food developmental change takes place as it does during childhood

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Life-span approach

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German psychologist a leading export on lifespan development and aging develop one of the approaches to studying development called the lifespan perspective

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Paul baltes

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With growth and change beginning at conception and throughout childhood and adolescence and in some respect during adult and old age

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The lifespan perspective

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Involves the dynamic interaction of factors like physically emotional and psychosocial development

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Development is multidimensional

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Development of certain traits can be characterized as having the capacity for both an increase and decrease in efficacy over the course of an individual’s life

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Development is multi-disciplinary

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Individuals are changing beings in a changing world

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Development is contextual

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Development is possible throughout the lifespan

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Development is multidirectional

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Characteristic or malleable or changeable

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Development is plastic

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Children as inherently selfish and bad believing that it was society that’s to control their selfish and aggressive emphasis and to teach them to behave in positive ways

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Original sin

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Maintain that the infant is a tabula rasa or a blank slate waiting to be written on by his or her own experience

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Tabula Rasa

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Includes learning experiences child reading methods societal changes and culture

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Nurture

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Refers to heredity and biological disposition

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Nature

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Argue the children were innately good that they were born with an initiative understanding of right and wrong and that they would develop a positive directions as long as a side society did not interfere with their natural sentences

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Inherently good

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Orchestrate their own development by exploring the world

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Active

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Being who are largely products or forces beyond their control usually environmental influences

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Nurture

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Theorists picture the course of development as more like a series of stair stops each of which elevate the individual to a new level of functioning

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Discontinuity

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The extent to which developmental changes are common to everyone

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Universal

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Different from person to person

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Context specific

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Biological processes involved change in the child's body it underlie the development of the brain gains in height changes in motor skills and puberty's hormonal changes

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The process

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Involve changes in the motion and changes in personality

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Social emotional process

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InvolveThe child's thinking intelligence and language

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Cognitive processes

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Theorists view human development as a process that of course in small steps without sudden change

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Continuity

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A set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based

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Theory

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Focus on explaining how children change and grow over the course of childhood this developmental theory center on various aspects of growth including social emotional and cognitive development

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Children development theorist

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An idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain facts or events

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Theory

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The process of changing and appropriately reacting as one grows and develops

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Maturation theory

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The first series to systematically study the changes of development in the first researcher to demonstrate that a child's development age may be different from his or her chronological age

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Arnold Gesell

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Propose that developmental changes for automatically in an orderly and predictable sequence with the biological clock affecting the rate of maturation of individuals

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Arnold Gesell

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He explained how there is the same sequence in order of the development but the rate of growth varies from one child to another this depends on the internal and external factor influencing children

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Arnold Gesell

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Parenting styles Family background Health conditions Cultural influences Interaction with peers and adults

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External

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Learning styles Temperament Personality Genetics Physical and mental growth

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Internal

Question 41

Giselle observed that maturation of development always unfolds in fix sequences and embryos heart is always the first organ to develop then the central nervous system The brain and the spinal cord followed by the??

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Peripheral organs