Chapter 1 Learning About Children- Key Terms

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Typical Behaviors

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Ways of acting or responding that are common at each stage of childhood.

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Caregivers

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Parents, guardians, and others responsible for caring for children.

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Stimulation

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Activities that arouse a baby's sense of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.

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Sequence

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A step-by-step pattern

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Heredity

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The biological transfer of certain inherited characteristics from earlier generations.

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Environment

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People, places, and things that surround ans influence a person, including family, home, school, and community.

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Human life Cycle

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Stages of human development that present different challenges to be met or skills to be acquired.

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Developmental Tasks

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Challenges that must be met or skills to be acquired during different stages of life.

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Self-esteem

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Self-worth, or the value people place on themselves.

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Subjective

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Relying on personal opinions and feelings, rather than facts, to judge events.

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Objective

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Using facts, not personal feelings and prejudices, to describe events or things.

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Running Record

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A method of writing observations in which the observer writes down everything observed about a child or group for a set period of time.

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Anecdotal Record

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An observer's reports of a child's actions, usually concentrating on a specific behavior or area of development.

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Frequency Count

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A tally of how often a certain behavior occurs.

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Baseline

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A count of behaviors an observer makes before any steps are taken to try to change the behavior

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Developmental Checklist

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A list of skills children should master or behaviors that should exhibit at a certain age.

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Interpretation

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In observing children, the analysis an observer forms and expresses about what was observed.

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Confidentiality

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Protection of another person's privacy by limiting access to personal information.