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Lec 82 Child Development Flashcards

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What is growth?

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increase in tissue through size or number of cells

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What is maturation?

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sequential emergence of specific pre-determined capacities

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What is development?

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progression of functions and skills resulting from interaction between individual and their environment

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What is development vs growth?

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growth = child getting bigger in size
development = how child able to do more complex things as he gets older
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What are the 4 domains of development?

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  • motor [gross and fine]
  • language
  • cognitive
  • social/emotional
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At newborn what:

  • motor
  • cognitive
  • language
  • social/emotional
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motor: basic reflexes [rooting, sucking, palmar, moro, plantar], limited purposeful movement
cognitive: sensorimotor = sense things
language: just crying, cannot localize sound

social/emotional:
- temperament = basically genetic

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At 6 mo what:

  • motor
  • cognitive
  • language
  • social/emotional
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motor: manipulating objects, grasping, purposeful movement, reach for objects, transfer object from hand to hand, sit on your own, roll over
cognitive: sensorimotor, not yet object permanence, has some working memory
language: coo by 2-4 mo, babble by 5-6 mo

social/emotional: looks at you but ignores you

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At 1 yr what:

  • motor
  • cognitive
  • language
  • social/emotional
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motor: most kids walking
cognitive: object permanence
language: say mama, dada, + one other word

social/emotional: can follow commands, achieved trust vs mistrust, has moved from differentiation to practicing, has separation anxiety

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At 2 yr what:

  • motor
  • cognitive
  • language
  • social/emotional
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motor: run, climb stairs, copy a line
cognitive: preoperational
language: 2 word phrases, about 250 words = synaptic density in wernicke/broca

social/emotional: say “no”, toilet training begins, anal stage/ shame/doubt, parallel play [play next to each other but not collaboratively]

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At 3 yr what:

  • motor
  • cognitive
  • language
  • social/emotional
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motor: ride tricycle [3 yrs = 3 wheels], copy a circle, toilet tratined
cognitive: preoperational
language: speaks sentences, grammar, knows full name

social/emotional: gender identity usually solidified, will not play cooperatively yet, object constancy, initiative vs guilt stage, freuds phallic phase

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At latency period [age 6-11] what:

  • motor
  • cognitive
  • language
  • social/emotional
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latency = less active psychosexual development

motor: not much new
cognitive: brain 90% of adult volume, by age 7 myelination complete but pruning in PFC continues, capable of paying attention, self-regulation, consideration of others, concrete operational thought, greater empathy/altruism, less egocentrism
language: not much new

social/emotional: sex preference often established

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At adolescence what:

  • motor
  • cognitive
  • language
  • social/emotional
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motor:
cognitive: capacity for abstraction, see from another’s point of view, hypotheticals, probabilities, moral reasoning, universal ethical principles

language:

social/emotional: self identity, knowing who you are/where you fit in

physical growth, puberty [females 9-11, males 2 yrs later]

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When is baby able to coo by? babble?

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coo = 2-4 mo
babble = 5-6 mo
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What are piaget’s 4 stages?

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  1. sensorimotor [age 0 -2]
  2. preoperational [age 3-6]
  3. concrete operations [age 7-12]
  4. formal operations [age 13+]
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What characterizes piaget’s sensorimotor stage?

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age 0-2

- exploring environment through sensing things and learning how to manipulate their bodies

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What characterizes piaget’s preoperational stage?

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age 3-6 =preschool

  • has language without logic
  • magical thinking
  • animism [anything that moves is alive]
  • con concept real vs imaginary
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What characterizes piaget’s concreate operations stage?

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age 7-12

onset of logical thought

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What characterizes piaget’s formal operations stage?

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age 13+

still has logic but now capable of abstract thought, imagining possibilities, hypotheticals

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What are thomas and chess different types of temperament?

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easy = 80% = pretty able to be soothed/predictable

difficult = 10% = greater challenge to soother

slow to warm = 10% = at first seem difficult but when you spend time with them they become easy

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What are margaret mahler’s stages of attachment?

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  1. normal autism
  2. symbiosis = by 2 mo
  3. differentiation = 4-5 mo
  4. practicing = by 1 yr
  5. Reapprochement = 1-2 yrs
  6. object constancy = 2-5 yrs
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What is normal autism?

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during 1st few wks baby is in own world

does not interact much with the outside world = not aware of others

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What is symbiosis?

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  • by 2 mo

baby fused with mom, has no sense that body is separate from mom

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What is differentiation?

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by 4-5 mo

  • starts to separate from mom, look around, discover outside world, attention wanders, finds fingers/toes
  • develops transient stranger anxiety
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What is practicing?

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  • at 1 yr
    walk, goes away from mom and ends up alone, hallmark of separation
  • conflicting desire to be independent and need for mothering/closeness
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What is rapprochement?
between ages 1-2 yrs | child goes out into the world, feels anxious, and comes back to check in with mom
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What is object constancy?
2-5 yrs child internalizes mother as stale and reliable so can tolerate separation develop sense that mother internalized no matter where kid goes, even in mom's absence
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What are bolby and ainsworth attachment styles?
secure = reach object constancy, cry when parent leaves but tolerate and happy to see parent when returns insecure = avoidant, disengaged, may treat mother/strangers equally, pathologically shy or ambivalent
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What are freud's psychosexual stages?
1. oral = 0-1 yrs, babies suck on things 2. anal = 1-3 yrs, goes along with toilet training, preoccupied with bathroom, focus on controlling bowel movements 3. genital = 3-5 yrs, interested in babies, opposite sex, playing with genitals
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What does a newborn need?
cognitive = ordinary stimuli language = to hear, be talked to social/emotional = basic needs [eating/sleeping/holding], basic trust
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What are Erikson's 8 conflicts in life?
1. trust vs mistrust - infancy, will my needs be met? 2. autonomy vs shame/doubt - toddlerhood, want to do things for themselves, shame if can't do it on their own 3. initiative vs guilt - preschool, doing more elaborate things that involve planning feels good if goes well, guilt if doesn't work out 4. industry vs inferiority - school age, preoccupied with what they are good at and playing to their strengths 5. identity vs role confusion - adolescence, who am I? 6. intimacy vs isolation - young adulthood, who am I going to be with? 7. generativity vs stagnation - middle age, am I being productive? 8. integrity vs despair - old age, can I feel good about my life and what I have accomplished
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When does social smile begin?
age 2 months
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When can babies first sit up?
6 months
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When does object permanence begin? what is it?
begins at 8 mo = begins to know even if something is out of sight, it is still there [before 8 mo --> if out of view, baby forgets it exists] - baby really likes idea of peekaboo at that stage
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What happens to memory development over first 3-6 mo?
3 mo = recognition memory, hippocampal growth spurt 6mo = working memory = can hold idea in mind, increased activity in PFC
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When does stranger anxiety start?
occurs at age 8 mo with object permanence = starts to know who the caregivers are, gets whimpery if someone new tries to pick him up
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When does separation anxiety start? what is it?
occurs at age 10 mo = if caregiver left room baby would cry hysterically oxytocin involved in bonding/attachment occurs across cultures
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When do kids start to play cooperatively?
age 4
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What are the parts of concrete logical thought?
- classification - seriation - reversibility - conservation = even when shape of objects change they still maintain other constant characteristics
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What is theory of moral development?
pre-conventional morality = until age 10: egocentric = what are consequences for me? does it satisfy my own needs? conventional = after 10 = measured against society, desire to support stereotypically good behavior in eyes of society post conventionally = most people never reach this, utilitarianism prevails and adults guided by universal moral principles
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What are the 3 types of parenting?
- authoritarian - authoritative - permissive
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