Theories
This important feature of social experience involves adjusting a teaching interaction to fit a child's current level of performance
Scaffolding
Once children exhibit theory of mind, they show they are able to do this...thinking about thinking
Metacognition
This type of parenting is indulgent, parents are warm but do not have control and leave the child to figure out decisions
Permissive parenting
This is children's active effort to build "literacy" knowledge through informal experiences
Emergent literacy
This condition can emerge in middle childhood when children have a greater than 20% increase in body weight
Obesity
As Piaget would say, this cognitive quality of early childhood PREVENTS children from understanding other people's perspectives
Egocentrism
As children enter early childhood, they begin to develop this - the set of beliefs that defines who they are
Self-concept
This style of parenting involves high acceptance and involvement with a warm and sensitive approach
Authoritative parenting
This awareness is the ability to reflect on and manipulate sound structures of spoken language
Phonological awareness
This gland plays an important role in growth as it relaease two types of hormones
Pituitary gland
A theory that combines environment and children cognition to shape their gender-role development
Gender schema theory
Actions that beneft another person without any expected reward for oneself
Prosocial (altruistic) behavior
The development of strategies that will prevent or solve disagreements and benefit the self and others
Social problem solving
Vgotsky's perspective of this phenonmenon of children talking to themselves
Private speech
This hormone affects the development of almost all body tissues
Growth hormone (GH)
This three part theory of intelligence includes a balance of interacting skills to support one's goals in life
Triarchiac theory of successful intelligence
When children adopt someone's positive or negative views about them and start to live up to them
Self-fulfilling prophecies
In middle childhood, children need guidance in this type of learning which requires small groups of classmates working toward common goals
Cooperative learning
The approach to language learning that focuses on the basic rules for translating symbols to sounds
Phonics approach
Extreme emotional deprivation can lead to this growth disorder that can happen between the ages of 2-15
Psychosocial dwarfism
This appears when children try out various strategies and figure out what works best when given a challenging problem
Overlapping waves theory
This occurs as children undergo the process of constantly monitoring their progress toward a goal, outcomes, and redirecting efforts.
Cognitive self-regulation
This occurs when an adult makes the child aware of feelings by pointing out the effects of the child's behavior on others
Induction
The ability to think about language as a system. Shown strongly in middle childhood
Metalinguistic awareness
This guides hand preference (right handedness or left handedness)
Dominant cerebral hemisphere