Cognitive Development
Biosocial Develoment
Fine Motor
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Gross Motor
Definitions
THEORISTS
100
During this period of development an infant uses senses and motor abilities to understand the world.
What is sensorimotor?
100
The learned ability to move some part of the body.
What is motor skill?
100
Running
What is gross motor?
100
All persons born within a few years of one another whose shared age means they will "travel" through life together.
What is a cohort?
100
His theory of development centers around three stages during development in the first 6 years and is characterized by sexual pleasure focused on a particular part of the body.
Who is Freud?
200
During this period of development the child thinks about abstractions and hypothetical concepts and begins to reason analytically, not just emotionally.
What is formal operational?
200
The physical ability involving large body movements (such as walking and jumping).
What is gross motor skills?
200
Sliding
What is gross motor?
200
Intentional harm to or avoidable endangerment of anyone under 18 years of age.
What is child maltreatment?
200
This theorist was a follower of Freud and described eight developmental stages with each being characterized by challenging developmental crisis and polar opposites at each stage.
Who is Erikson?
300
During this period of cognitive development children understand and apply logical operations, or principals; interpret experiences objectively and rationally because their thinking is limited to what they can personally see, hear, touch, and experience.
What is concrete operational?
300
Hands, fingers, and eyes are involved with this small body movement.
What is fine motor skills?
300
Using a pencil
What is fine motor?
300
a characteristic of thinking that leads children to focus on themselves at the exclusion of others.
What is egocentrism?
300
This theorist is considered the "patriarch" of cognitive theory. He emphasized the structure and development of thought processes.
Who is Piaget?
400
During this period of cognitive development the imagination flourishes and language becomes a significant means of self-expression and of influence of others.
What is preoperational?
400
This gross motor skill progresses from reflexive, hesitant, and adult-supported to fully coordinated and unassisted.
What is walking?
400
Hopping on one foot
What is gross motor?
400
a style of parenting where the parents always try to be in control and exert their control on their children.
What is authoritarian?
400
He was the founder of Sociocultural Theory and his ideas on the role of culture and history revolutionized education and the study of development.
Who is Vygotsky?
500
As children develop cognitively, at what age do ethics, politics, and social and moral issues become fascinating and take on a broader and more theoretical approach with regard to experience?
What is 12 years to adulthood?
500
During this biosocial developmental age, children often play joyfully, "fully and totally immersed." The physical activity allow these children to enjoy these skills for a lifetime.
What is school age or middle childhood?
500
Dressing ones self, including tying shoes
What is fine motor?
500
All the skills, knowledge, and concepts that a person is close to acquiring but cannot yet master without help.
What is zone of proximal development (ZPD)?
500
This theorist argued that if psychology was to be a science, psychologists should examine only what they could see and measure: behavior, not thoughts and hidden urges. These ideas led to him being one of the earliest influential behaviorists.
Who is John Watson?
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