Theories
Set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behaviour. They help to give meaning to what we see and experience.
Theory
The Understanding of objects that continue to exist when out of sight is called?
Object Permanence
What are fine motor skills
skills refer to small movements in the hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips and tongue.
Which system is not part of the ecological systems theory Microsystem Macrosystem, Minosystem Mesosystem, Exosystem
Referring to how and when children learn to interact with caregivers, peers, adults, etc.
Social
This theorist emphasized two related principles, natural selection and survival of the fittest.
Charles Darwin
it assists us to determine the distance to or from an object.
depth perception
What are gross motor skills
Gross motor skills consist of using your larger muscles to form a task. Ex: legs, arms, shoulders, biceps, etc.
children are born into this system, and it influences the child directly.
Microsystem
Referring to growth and ability to use muscles subcategories (Fine and Gross)
Physical
When we selectively attend to one activity, we tend to ignore other stimulation.
Information processing theory
Internal depictions of information that the mind can manipulate are called?
Cognitive Development
Rewards/Reinforcement vs Punishment
Operant Conditioning
connections of elements that directly surround the child.
Mesosystem
Referring to the development of understanding and communicating language.
Language
According to Vygotsky, Children’s learning takes place in the ______?
Zone of Proximal Development
After a baby’s attention to anew stimulus declines, the infant is demonstrating what?
Habituation.
What does Piaget's Cognitive theory mean?
When we develop information processing, memory, learning, language, etc
all other cultures that influence a child
Macrosystem
Referring to how and when of the development of information processing, memory, perception, learning language, etc.
Cognitive
According to Piaget, magical thinking is common during the preschool years because young children________?
Younger children egocentrically assign human purpose to physical events.
To choose to stop being a study at any time, to be given time to read the consent form, to be given time to ask questions, and told who to contact with said questions.
The rights to a research participant.
How many brain cells is a baby born with
100 billion with few synapses
links between social system that don’t directly involve the child.
Exosystem
Referring to the capacity of understanding, feeling, expressing, and managing emotions.
Emotional