Child Development Chapters 1-3

Front 1

Cognitive stage theory

Back 1

Jean Piaget

Front 2

Psychosocial Theory

Back 2

Erik Erikson

Front 3

Children are noble savages

Back 3

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Front 4

Children's defense fund

Back 4

Marian Wright Edelman

Front 5

Bioecological Theory

Back 5

Urie Bronfenbrenner

Front 6

Tabula Rasa-"Blank Slate"

Back 6

John Locke

Front 7

Sociocultural Theory

Back 7

Lev Vygotsky

Front 8

Operant Conditioning

Back 8

B.F.Skinner

Front 9

Parent-Child Attachment

Back 9

John Bowlby

Front 10

Classical Conditioning

Back 10

Pavlov and Watson

Front 11

Social Learning Theory

Back 11

Albert Bandura

Front 12

Psychosexual Theory of Development

Back 12

Sigmund Freud

Front 13

The behavior patterns, beliefs and all other products of a group that are passed from generation to generation

Back 13

Culture

Front 14

The pattern of changes that begins at conception and continues through the life cycle

Back 14

Human development

Front 15

Change in number or amount

Back 15

Quantitative change

Front 16

Modifiability of performance

Back 16

Plasticity

Front 17

A specific time when a given even, or its absence, has the greatest impact on development

Back 17

critical periods

Front 18

giving someone something he/she finds desirable

Back 18

positive reinforcement

Front 19

taking away something that someone does not like

Back 19

negative reinforcement

Front 20

The difference between what can do alone and him help

Back 20

Zone of proximal development

Front 21

Temporary support to help a child master a task

Back 21

Scaffolding

Front 22

Unfolding of natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes, including readiness to master new ability

Back 22

Maturation

Front 23

Characteristics of an event that occurs in a similar way for most people in a group

Back 23

Normative influences

Front 24

Development is shaped by unconscious forces

Back 24

contextual

Front 25

_______is a coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain and predict data

Back 25

theory

Front 26

_____emphasizes the predictable role of the environment in causing observable behavior.

Back 26

behaviorism

Front 27

the _________ model views development as a passive, predictable respons to stimuli.

Back 27

mechanistic

Front 28

In the ________ perspective, thought processes are central to development

Back 28

cognitive

Front 29

___________ is an 8 stage theory involving the socially and culturally influenced process of the development of the ego or self

Back 29

Psychosocial

Front 30

Observing and analyzing the mental processes involved in perceiving and handling information

Back 30

information processing

Front 31

according to the ______ theory, behaviors are learned by observing and imitating models.

Back 31

social learning

Front 32

Through the ______ theory, Vygotsky, studied how contextual factors affect children's development

Back 32

sociocultural

Front 33

The _______perspective focuses on biological and evolutionary bases of behavior

Back 33

ethological

Front 34

Consensus has emerged on 6 fundamental points in the study of child development

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1. Children are remarkable resilient
2. Continuity between early and late development
3. History and culture strongly influence development

Front 35

Name 2 of the 3 "Periods of Development" we study in this class

Back 35

1. Prenatal
2. Infancy and toddlerhood

Front 36

The complete set of instructions fro making an organism; contains the master blueprint fro all cellular structures and activities for the lifespan of the organism

Back 36

Genome

Front 37

A single cell formed through fertilization

Back 37

zygote

Front 38

the process by which cells divide resulting in each having half the genetic material of the parent cell

Back 38

meiosis

Front 39

the units of hereditary information, short segments composed of DNA

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genes

Front 40

a complex molecule, shaped like a double helix, that contains genetic information

Back 40

DNA

Front 41

the process by which each chromosome in the cell's nucleus duplicates itself

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Mitosis

Front 42

threadlike structures comprised of thousands of genes that come in 23 pairs one member of each coming from each parent

Back 42

chromosome

Front 43

testes/sperm in males; ovaries/eggs in females

Back 43

gametes

Front 44

egg and sperm are combined in a laboratory dish and resulting fertilized embryo is transfered into woman's uterus

Back 44

IVF

Front 45

injection of sperm into woman's cervix

Back 45

artificial insemination

Front 46

change and stability in personality, emotional life, and social relationships

Back 46

cognitive development