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cephalocaudal trend |
babies gain control of the upper part of their body before the bottom |
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proximodistal trend |
developmental path of babies where they gain control of their torso first and then extremities |
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longitudinal vs cross sectional study |
ex, studying one group of kids from 1 to 8
vs. studying 8 groups each at ages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc |
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cohort effects |
effects of peer group ("it's a generational thing") |
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Jerome Kagan |
temperment and character develop and change over time and experience |
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strange situation procedure |
see how babies react to various separation and reunion episodes to assess attachment |
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secure attachment |
mom is a secure base |
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anxious/ambivilant attachment |
when mom is there the kid is a little anxious, but when she leaves it's bad until she returns. basically, the kid doesn't like to admit that he likes his mom but really she's helpful |
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avoidant attachment |
the kid just doesn't seem to like mom very much |
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Erikson's stage theory (8) |
8 crisis of development |
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Jean Piaget |
studied cognative development |
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assimilation and accommodation cognition |
ability to interpret new informatino within existing mental frameworks without changing them or the ability to change existing mental frameworks with new information |
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4 stages of cognitive development |
sensorimotor (2), preoperational (2-7), concrete operational (7-11), formal oporational (11 onward) |
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sensorimotor period |
object permanence |
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preoperational period |
conservation, centration, irreversability, egocentrism |
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conservation thought |
awareness that physical quantities remain constant despite apparent change in quality |
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centration |
problem solving tunnel vision- tall glass of water looking like more than the wide glass of water |
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irreversibility |
kids can't imagine the reverse or undoing of a process |
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egocentrism |
kids can't really share another person's point of view |
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animism |
all things are living |
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Contrete Operational period |
more than one way to look at things and the child can hold multiple things in their mind at once |
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formal operational period |
deep thoughts mannnq |