Basics of Child Development (Ch. 1)
This field studies constancy and change from conception through adolescence.
What is Child development ?
This theorist believed children are born as a “blank slate.”
Who is John Locke?
Children ages 6–8 typically grow this many inches per year.
What is 2 to 3 inches?
By age 6, the brain is approximately this percent of adult size.
What is 95%?
Piaget’s concrete operational stage occurs between these ages.
What are ages 7 to 11?
These are the three broad domains of development.
physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development
This theorist believed children are naturally good and develop through stages.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
By age 9, this gender tends to weigh more and be taller.
Who are girls?
This brain structure connects the left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This ability allows children to understand that quantity stays the same despite appearance changes.
What is conservation?
This domain includes changes in emotions, personality, and relationships.
What is socioemotional development?
This theory emphasizes conflicts between biological drives and social expectations.
What is the psychoanalytic perspective?
This term describes changes in body size across generations.
What are secular trends in physical growth?
This brain area is responsible for emotions and matures earlier than reasoning areas.
What is the amygdala?
This skill involves ordering items by length or weight.
What is seriation?
This developmental period occurs from birth to 2 years.
What is infancy and toddlerhood?
This theorist proposed operant conditioning using rewards and punishments.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This dental condition occurs when upper and lower teeth do not meet properly.
What is malocclusion?
This condition is the most common chronic illness causing school absences.
What is asthma?
This memory strategy involves grouping related items together.
What is organization?
Development is best described as this type of process because it continues across the lifespan.
What is a lifelong process?
This cognitive theorist proposed four stages of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Between ages 6–12, children lose these teeth.
What are primary (baby) teeth?
This is the most effective treatment for bedwetting based on conditioning.
What is a urine alarm?
This term refers to the ability to think about what others are thinking about.
What is recursive thought?