growth - correct answer ✔✔physical changes in the person from conception through maturity
development - correct answer ✔✔changes in skills or capabilities
child development - correct answer ✔✔understanding constancy and change from conception through
adolescence
three domains of child development - correct answer ✔✔- physical: changes in body size, proportions,
appearances, functioning of body systems, perceptual and motor capacities, physical health
- cognitive: changes in attention, memory, academic/everyday knowledge, problem solving, creativity,
language
- socio-emotional: changes in emotion regulation, emotional/social communication, self-understanding,
knowledge about others, interpersonal skills, friendships, reasoning
periods of development - correct answer ✔✔- prenatal: conception to birth
- infancy: birth to two years
- early: 2 to 6 years
- middle: 6 to 11 years
- adolescence: 11 to 18 years
- adult: 18 to 25 years
theory - correct answer ✔✔organize existing info to describe how children develop, serves as a sound
basis for practical action
quantitative - correct answer ✔✔series of small changes, process of gradually adding more of the same
types of skills that were there to begin with
, qualitative - correct answer ✔✔series of sudden changes, process in which new ways of understanding
and responding to the world emerge at specific times
does development follow the same sequence or vary across contexts? - correct answer ✔✔some think
that children follow the same sequence, other believe that unique combos of personal/environmental
circumstances result in different paths
John Locke (17th century) - correct answer ✔✔- tabula rosa (blank slate)
- nuture
- parents = important, children = passive
Jean Rosseau (18th century) - correct answer ✔✔- adults receptive to child's needs
- innate timeline for development
- genes > environment
Charles Darwin (19th century) - correct answer ✔✔natural selection
normative period - correct answer ✔✔- G. Stanley Hall: child study movement
- Arnold Gesell: tell parents what to expect
psychodynamic - correct answer ✔✔- interaction between internal conflicts/environment
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