Pre-reading Assignment
Infant/Toddler Development
Preschool Development
School-Aged Child Development
Adolescent Development
100
Development begins before conception, since the genetic basis for any individual's development is present in the reproductive cells fo that individual's parents, and development continues until death
What is Development is an Ongoing Process?
100
The earliest enduring social and emotional relationships very young children develop with significant people in their lives.
What is infant attachment?
100
The domain characterized by fairly constant weight and height gains, brain grouwth reaching approximately 4/5 of adult size, loss of the swayed back and protruding abdomen, and inability to sit still for long periods of time.
What is the pre-school physical domain?
100
Characterized by slow and steady growth, active energetic and perpetual motion, development and coordiantion of complex gross-motor and perceptual-motor skills (movement reltated skills such as hand-eye coordination or body-eye coordination) & fine motor skill refinement.
What is school-age child physical development?
100
This adolescent domain of development may be particularly difficult for immigrant and refugee adolescents who are striving to fit in with Canadian culture at school, while parents expect adherence to traditional cultural norms regarding behaviour and allegiance to family.
What is adolescent social development?
200
Early developmental tasks form the foundation for the development of later, more complicated tasks
What is Development is Cumulative?
200
Bleeding around the brain and pooling blood in the brain of a baby may result in learning, physical and visual difficulties, blindness, hearing impairment, speech disabilities, cerebral palsy, seizures, behaviour disorders, cognitive impairment and death when this happens.
What is shaking a baby?
200
Absent, delayed or hard to understand speech, an unusually short attention span, a lack of interest in objects and an inability to concentrate.
What are possible effects of maltreatment on a pre-school child's cognitive development?
200
These guide behaviour in school-age children and provide them with structure and security.
What are rules?
200
The principal task of emotional development during adolescence.
What is the development of an individual identity?
300
The environmental factor that affects developmental outcomes for a child and includes the degree and type of stimulation available to the child.
What is Learning Environment?
300
Inabilty to learn to regulate their own emotions, fear and anxiety, survival mechanisms, "frozen watchfulness" or "frozen altertness," withdrawal, listless, apathetic, depressed and unresponsive to the environment.
What are possible consequences of abuse and neglect on emotional development in infant/toddlers?
300
The term used to describe the nature of pre-school age children's thought processes where their awareness and understanding is limited to their own immediate experience. This is not the same thing as being "selfish" or "thoughtless," or mean that they only think about themselves.
What is egocentric thought?
300
The development of this task in the emotional domain of a school-aged child, this is largely dependant upon the child's ability to perform and produce and if they feel that they have failed, are likely to have feelings of inferiority.
What is Self-esteem?
300
Consequence of an adolescent failing to achieve autonomy, initiative and industry.
What is inability to develop a stable, positive identity?
400
The environmental factor that affects developmental outcomes for a child and includes the nature of the child's interpersonal relationships and the degree of nurturance available.
What is Emotional Environment?
400
A term used to describe a wide variety of conditions in which infants fail to achieve age-appropriate weight and height levels. Some, but not all are a result of neglect.
What is Failure to Thrive?
400
In most preschool children, the child recognizes the superior power of an authority and confirms to rules (is obedient) simply to avoid punishment.
What is "punishment/obedience" perspective?
400
The moral development of most children under the age of eleven which is largely rules-driven. Children understand that rules can be useful in promoting "self-interested exchanges." Specifically, children obey the rules in order to get what they want.
What is pre-conventional moral development?
400
Adolescents are often able to understand that moral principles have social unity: rules exist for the betterment of society and the benefit of its members. This perspective has two stages: 1) Golden Rule & 2) Law and Order.
What is conventional moral thought?
500
Developmental tasks are typically divided into four categories referred to as these domains.
What are physical, cognitive, social & emotional domains?
500
A phrase coined to refer to the pervasive effects of chronic child abuse of young children.
What is Complex Trauma?
500
Refer to an excessively fearful or stressful response to a perceived threat either in the present environment or anticipated for the future, so much so that it interferes with a child or young person's everyday activities.
What is Anxiety Disorder?
500
A school-age child's ability (by age 10-11) to listen to each other's points of view and discuss them. They become increasingly aware of, and able to consider, the needs and feelings of others. When their views are in conflict, they can identify solutions that consider what both chidlren want.
What is perspective taking?
500
Piaget's name for the stage of cognition emerges during adolescence and includes the aspects of hypothetical and logical thinking, ability to think about thought, insight and the emergence of systematic problem solving.
What is formal operations?
M
e
n
u