Early Childhood Theorists
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100
This man believed that children were born a "tabula rasa."
Who is John Locke
100
In this type of delivery the doctor will cut through the abdomen and uterus to remove the baby.
What is a C-section?
100
The number of chromosomes a normal human cell contains.
What is 46?
100
This filters what is passed between mother and fetus.
What is the placenta?
100
This is an example of what theory? Sarah jumps every time a balloon pops. Now before popping a balloon, Sarah's friends say 1, 2, 3 POP! Pretty soon Sarah jumps at hearing the work POP.
What is classical conditioning?
200
He is the originator of the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
These are false labor contractions that can begin as early as the 6th month of pregnancy.
What Braxton-Hicks contractions?
200
If a child receives a dominant allele for brown hair and a recessive allele for blonde hair, the child will have this color hair.
What is brown.
200
This is the hollowed out area in the blastocyst from which the nervous system develops.
What is the neural tube?
200
Jean Piaget believed that children went through these stages of cognitive development.
What are Sensorimotor, Preoperational, concrete operational, and Formal operational.
300
Freud believed that this is the aspect of our personality that is present at birth and is unconscious.
What is the Id?
300
The term for the fetus' head emerging from the birth canal.
What is crowning?
300
Down's Syndrome is a condition characterized by this abnormality.
What is a third chromosome on the 21st pair.
300
These two terms describe that the fetus develops from the top down and from the center to the outer.
What are Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal?
300
According to Vygotsky, this is the range of tasks that a child can carry out with the help of someone who is more skilled.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
400
Bronfenbrenner described these 5 systems going from narrowest to widest.
What are microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem?
400
When the baby is born the APGAR scale is preformed, which looks at these 5 elements.
What are appearance, pulse, grimace, activity level, and respiratory effort?
400
The procedure to test fluid from the "sac" containing the fetus.
What is amniocentesis?
400
This is the period during which the embryo is particularly vulnerable to certain teratogens.
What is the critical period?
400
He believed that children adapt to the environment by assimilating new events to existing mental structures.
Who is Jean Piaget?
500
Erikson believed there each person goes through these 8 stages of development.
What are trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. identity diffusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs self absorption, integrity vs. despair
500
Approximately 4 out 5 women report having the baby blues. Research shows that it is so common because this occurs.
What are hormonal changes that follow delivery?
500
A zygote that divides into two cells that separate so that each subsequently develops into an individual with the same genetic makeup.
What is monozygotic twins?
500
All the fetal organs have developed by this point in the pregnancy.
What is by the end of the first trimester?
500
He believed that children internalize sociocultural dialogues in developing problem-solving skills.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
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