General Child Development I
A person undergoing the period of development from infancy to puberty
Who is a child?
Standards by which the progress of a child's development can be measured
What are developmental norms?
The idea that children are empty vessels that need to be filled up with information
What is tabula rasa/blank slate image of the child?
(Cankaya et al., 2025)
What is an APA in-text citation?
Involves observing children's behaviour at different time intervals
What is time sampling?
"The orderly appearance, over time, of physical structures, psychological traits, behaviours, and ways of adapting to the demands of life"
What is development?
A crucial time when a particular type of growth must happen for normal development to occur, otherwise harm can occur
What is a critical period?
View of the child wherein childhood is not considered a separate phase but rather a small adult
What is a miniature adult image of the child?
Cankaya, O., Martin, M., & Haugen, D. (2025). The Relationship Between Children’s Indoor Loose Parts Play and Cognitive Development: A Systematic Review. Journal of Intelligence, 13(5), 52.
What is an APA reference?
Observations that use a specific list of items, using yes or no responses
What is a checklist?
Changes in type, kind, or quality (e.g., language development)
What are qualitative changes in development?
A time when a certain type of development is most likely to occur, although it may still happen later with more difficulty
What is sensitive period?
View of the child as a practice ground for adulthood
What is the adult-in-training image?
An educational philosophy from Italy that conceptualizes children as co-constructors, engaged in society, and capable
What is Reggio Emilia?
A video camera approach that captures everything happening for one child using present tense
What is a running record observation?
Changes in amount, size, or quality (e.g., vocabulary growth)
What are quantitative changes in development?
Belief that development involves gradual and ongoing changes across the life span
What is continuous development?
View of the child as a something to be used or consumed
What is the child as commodity image of the child?
A curriculum framework intended to guide the significant work of early learning and child care educators with young children in Alberta
What is Flight?
A snapshot approach recalled in past tense that is short and could include observations about more than one child
What is an anecdotal observation?
Belief that development involves distinct and separate stages with different kinds of behaviour occuring in each stage
What is discountinuous development?
Debate about whether the environment or biology influences development
What is the nature-nurture debate?
View of the child as capable, competent, and social actor
What is the agentic image of the child?
The national early childhood curriculum framework for New Zealand created by Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities
What is Te Whariki?
Preparing, collecting data, interpreting, writing, reflecting/analysis
What are the stages of observation and documentation?