• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/111

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

111 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back

Phonology

Structure and sequence of speech sounds.

Semantics

Vocabulary and word combinations

Grammar

Syntax: arrangement of words in a sentence


Morphology: use of grammatical markers (he=male, tense, etc.)

Pragmatics

Communication


Conversing appropriately and effectively. (Understanding gestures, tone, and context).

Behaviorist Perspective on Language Development

Skinner: language is acquired through operant conditioning (consequences) and imitation.

Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

The innate ability to formulate and understand sentences once the child has learned a sufficient amount of vocabulary.

Protodeclarative

When a baby points to something and then looks at others to see if they noticed.

Protoimperative

When the baby gets someone else to do something they want by pointing or making noises

Underextension

Applying words too narrowly (That's not a cat. Our cat is at home. That must be a dog)

Learning a second language...

Is best accomplished when taught at the youngest age possible alongside learning a first language. Avoid confusing the languages by providing different contexts.

Overextension

Applying a word too broadly (all transportation vehicles are cars)

Overregularization

Trying to understand how to apply morphology correctly (I has two foots; my car breaked)

Fast-mapping

Connecting a new word with an underlying concept after just one brief encounter.

Referential Style

Vocabulary refers to objects to communicate

Expressive Style

Using more social formulas and pronouns; more observational

Syntactic Bootstrapping

Discovering word meanings by observing how words are used according to syntax

Semantic Bootstrapping

Using word meanings to figure out sentence structure by grouping words together

Telegraphic Speech

Two-word utterances from 1.5 to 2.5 year olds that still get the point across even though they are vague. (More cookie)

Recast

Restructuring inaccurate speech into a correct form so the child can learn

Expansion

Elaborating on a child's speech to increase its complexity (shiny, blue and white marble)

Turnabout

Speaker comments and adds a request to get the partner to respond again

Shading

Gradually initiates a change of topic by modifying the focus of the discussion

Illocutionary Intent

Understanding what the Speaker means to say even if it form of utterance is not perfectly consistent with it

Referential Communication Skills

Producing clear verbal messages and recognizing when we receive unclear messages so we can ask for more info and elaboration.

Metalinguistic Awareness

The ability to think about language as a system

Word Coinages

Filling in for words they have not learned by combining words they do know (plant-man=gardener)

Metaphors

Children will use metaphors to express themselves and their feelings (stomachache feels like the bees stung it)

Joint Attention

When the child takes notice in the same objects as their caregivers based mostly on visual gaze signals. From here, they learn new vocabulary as they prompt caregivers to explain.

Stranger Anxiety

Occurs in a child when an unfamiliar adult picks them up in a new setting.

Emotional Self-Regulation

Adjusting our emotional state to a comfortable level of intensity so we can accomplish our goals.

Self-Conscious Emotions

Involves injury to or enhancement of our sense of self. (Guilt, envy, shame, embarassment, pride, etc.)

Emotional Display Rules

Specify when, where, and how it is appropriate to express emotions.

Social Referencing

Relying on another person's emotional reaction to appraise an uncertain situation.

Prosocial/altruistic Behavior

When a child acts in a way that benefits another person without any expected reward for doing so.

Empathy

To detect different emotions, to take on another's emotional perspective, to respond emotionally in a similar way.

Sympathy

Feelings of concern or sorrow for another's plight

Social Smile

Parent's communication evokes a broad grin (6-10 weeks)

Temperament

Reactivity: refers to quickness and intensity of emotional arousal, attention and motor action.


Self-regulation: refers to strategies that modify that reactivity

Attachment

Strong, affectionate tie we share with special people that leads us to experience pleasure and joy when we interact with them

Different Child Temperaments

Easy: (40%) quickly establishes regular routines, adapts easily and is cheerful


Difficult: (10%) irregular routines, slow to accept new experiences, tends to react negatively and intensely.


Slow-to-warm-up: (15%) inactive, mild reactions to environmental stimuli, negative mood, adjusts slowly.

Ainsworth's Strange Situation

Observes the quality of attachment between child and caregiver.


Child explores an unfamiliar playroom with and without the caregiver; researchers identify secure attachment patterns.

Ainsworth: Secure Attachment

Infants use parent as a secure base. Prefer parent over stranger. When parent returns to playroom, infant immediately seeks contact and crying us reduced immediately. (60%)

Ainsworth: Avoidant Attachment

Unresponsive to parent when parent is present; treat strangers the same way. (15%)

Ainsworth: Resistant Attachment

Before separation, infants seek closeness to parent and often fail to explore. Clingy to parent. Distressed when the parent leaves. Resistive behavior. Not easily comforted even when parent returns. (10%)

Ainsworth: Disorganized Attachment

Greatest insecurity. Infants express confused, contradictory behavior. Behavior does not reflect the typical response they should be expressing (approaches parent but in a depressed sort of way rather than relieved and excited). (15%)

Sensitive Caregiving

Responding promptly, consistently, and appropriately to infants and holding them tenderly and carefully.

Interactional Synchrony

Caregiver responds to infant signals in a well-timed, rhythmic, appropriate fashion. "Emotional dance".


Creates emotional trust

Interactional Styles: Father

Devoted more to playful interaction. Highly arousing physical play allows for infants to regulate emotions in intensely arousing situations and take on active, unpredictable contexts with confidence.

Interaction Styles: Mother

Nurture and are generally the ultimate caregiver. Engage in conventional games (peek-a-boo).

Managing Fears in Early Childhood

Shifting attention away from the sources of frustration.


Social referencing--parents provide a good example of how to handle feelings and situations for children to observe and imitate.


Adult-child conversations geared to help the child express their fears and foster self-regulation.

Preschoolers who were securely attached as babies were...

Higher in self-esteem, social skills, and EMPATHY than their insecurely attached counterparts.

Rhesus Monkeys

Parent-infant attachment relies on comfort more than hunger.

Parenting Techniques Correlated to Shyness

Insecure attachment

Social Cognition

How children come to understand their multifaceted social world. Interpretting experience

Self-recognition

Identifying oneself as a physically unique being

Categorical Self

Classifying themself and others on a basis of perpetually distinct attributes and behaviors (baby, girl, etc.)

Enduring Self

Viewing themself as persisting over time.

Inner Self

Being aware of private thoughts and imaginings.

Self-concept

The set of attributes, abilities, attitudes, and values that an individual believes and defines as who he or she is.

I-self

Introspects

Me-self

Observes intropsection

Remembered Self

Autobiographical memory constructed of past conversations

Self-esteem

Judgements based on one's worth and the feelings associated with those judgements.

Generalized Other

A blend of what we imagine important people in our lives think of us, crucial to developing a self-concept based in personality traits.

How preschoolers describe themselves

Describe observable characteristics such as their name, physical appearance, possessions and everyday behaviors.

Rouge Test

Represents self-recognition


Placing a red dot on the child's face and then placing them in front of a mirror to see if they notice and try to wipe it off

Belief-desire theory and false beliefs

?

Person Perception

The way individuals size up the attributes of people with whom they are familiar.

Perspective Taking

The capacity to imagine what others may be thinking and feeling.

Social Comparison

Evaluations of one's own appearance, abilities, and behavior in relation to others.

Recursive Thought

To reason simultaneously about what two or more people are thinking.

Achievement Motivation

Pressing forward!

Learned Helplessness

The view that success is due to external factors while failure is due to low ability.

Attribution Retraining

Encouragement to get children past learned helplessness so they can understand the importance of overcoming failure through effort.

Child-rearing practices that influence self-esteem

Warm and accepting parents provide reasonable expectations for mature behavior, engagement in positive problem solving, and allow for children to feel accepted and worthwhile.

Categories of causes of own and other's behavior

?

Factors related to mastery-oriented attributions

Through improved reasoning skills and frequent evaluative feedback, children gradually become able to distinguish ability, effort, and external factors.l I'm explaining their performance.

Children with an incremental view of ability vs. Children who develop learned helplessness

Incremental view of ability: when children view themselves as being capable to do anything as long as they put in the effort; attribute failure to factors that can be changed and controlled.


Learned helplessness: attribute their failures, not their successes, to ability.

Parenting beliefs/practices of parents of learned-helplessness children

They usually believe that their child is incapable and must work much harder than others to suceed. Will say, "it's okay if you quit. Looks like you can't do it anyway."


Trait statements encourage children to adopt an entity view of ability, leading them to question their competence in the face of setbacks.

Differentiate between Marcia's four identity statuses: identity achievement, identity foreclosure, identity diffusion, and moratorium

?

Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory: Moral Development

Morality emerges when children adopt the same-sex parent's characteristics and identify with them. Hostility once aimed at same-sex parent is then aimed at themself.


Let your superego be your guide.


Let your children fear you (don't)


Inductive Discipline: Child Behavior

When parents point out other children's bad behavior and noting that child's distress and making clear that the child caused it in order to help their child notice others' feelings.

Physical Punishment and Child Outcomes

Frequent punishment promoted only immediate compliance, not lasting changes in behavior.


Serious mental health problems develop under harsh punishment.

Negative Effects of Punishment in Child Discipline

Weak internalization of moral values, depression, aggression, antisocial behavior, and poor academic performance emerge in childhood.


Depression, alcohol abuse, and criminality develop in adolescence.


Partner and Child abuse develops in adulthood.

Realism in young children's moral understanding

?

Distributive Justice

?

Ideal Reciprocity

"Do unto unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Social Conventions

Customs determined solely by consensus.

Limitations of Kohlberg's Theory

Conception of moral maturity, its applicability, and appropriateness according to children's moral reasoning.

Key contributors to gains in moral reasoning

Moral behavior is influenced by the emotions of empathy, sympathy, and guilt; individual differences in temperament; and a long history of cultural experiences and intuitions.

Moral Imperatives

Social rules and expectations that protect people's rights and welfare.

Social Conventions

?

Matters of Personal Choice

Concerns that do not violate rights or others' welfare and are up to the individual.

Elliot Turiel: Moral and social-conventional distinctions

Turiel believes that children reflect on their everyday social interactions to distinguish between which transgression is greater--moral violations or violations of social conventions. (Moral is greater)

Aggression: Proactive/instrumental

Acting to fulfill a need or desire and unemotionally attack a person to achieve their goal.

Aggression: reactive/hostile

An angry, defensive response to provocation or a blocked goal; intends to hurt another person

Aggression: physical

Harms others through injury injury to themselves or their property.

Aggression: Relational

Damages a peer's relationships through social exclusion, malicious gossip, or friendship manipulation.

Sex differences in aggressive behavior

Girls: relational aggression


Boys: mostly physical

Social-cognitive deficits and distortions related to aggressive behavior

Overly high-self esteem (arrogance)


Highly manipulative


Believe there are more benefits and fewer costs for engaging in destructive acts.


Can't empathize


Can't see their aggressive actions (or themselves) as wrong

Early onset vs late onset routes to adolescent delinquency

Early onset: decline in aggression over time, hyperactive, violent-prone; more serious


Late onset: their conduct problems arise from typical adolescent novelty seeking and effectiveness to peer influence.

Kohlberg's stages of moral development.

Preconventional Level: morality is externally controlled. Children accept the rules of authority figures and judge actions by their consequences.


Conventional Level: conformity to social rules is viewed as important, but not for reasons of self-interest. Rather, they believe that maintaining the current social system ensures positive human relationships.


Postconventional: define morality in terms of abstract principles and values that apply to all situations and societies.

Gilligan's morality of care perspective

Believes that femine morality emphasizes an "ethnic of care" that Kohlberg's system devalues.

Identity Achievement

after a period of exploration, the child commits themselves to self-chosen values and goals.

Identity Foreclosure

without engaging in exploration, the child commits themself to ready-made values and goals chosen for them by authority figures.

Identity Diffusion

Do not engage in exploration and are not committed to values and goals.

Identity Moratorium

Exploring, but not yet committed to, self-chosen values and goals.

Piaget's Moral Theory

?

Phonemes

?

Kohlberg's Theqory in depth (paotconventional especially)

?

Heternomous vs autonomous

?