Chapter 6: Toddlerhood
The start of toddlerhood is marked by ______, withdrawing a baby from breastfeeding.
What is weaning?
Children typically grow 2-3 inches a year during early childhood. However, poor nutrition and disease can lead to ______
What is stunting?
Middle childhood is seen as a more stable and less sensitive period ("waiting room") than adolescence and early life. However, this is a problematic view, especially as the age of ______ has continued to decrease universally over time.
What is puberty?
What is the name(s) of Professor Forbes' baby cousins that were highly featured in our lecture slides?
What is Malcolm or Alex?
The four attachment types developed by Ainsworth are: secure, avoid, _______, and disorganized.
What is anxious?
According to Piaget, kids in early childhood tend to struggle with classification, or the idea that objects can be part of more than one _______.
What is group (or category)?
During middle childhood, kids tend to choose friends through selective association, i.e., they prefer friends who are _____ to them.
What is similar?
Multilingual children tend to score ______ cognitively than monolingual children
What is higher?
The Babies Docuseries episode entitled Toddlers demonstrated that toddlers tend to be ______ to others, even when inconvenienced (e.g., interrupting their playtime)
What is helpful/prosocial/altruistic?
In addition to expanding grammar and vocabulary, early childhood is when children begin to demonstrate an understanding of ______ or the social rules of language.
What is pragmatics?
During middle childhood, children usually develop the ability to arrange things in a logical order. This is called ______
What is seriation?
This is the level of assistance provided to children when expanding their learning. It is also a physical structure used in construction work.
What is scaffolding?
____ ________ is a term to describe a child's ability to remember a word after only hearing it once.
What is fast mapping?
Parenting styles in majority culture are defined by two dimensions: ________ and __________.
What is demandingness and responsiveness?
What is control and warmth?
According to the textbook and the article by Hassler and colleagues on consistency of gender identity during middle childhood, _____ tend to decrease in stereotypical preferences over time.
What is girls?
What is Broca's area (language production)?
What is Wernicke's area (language comprehension)?The _____ __ _____ _____ is the difference between skills or tasks that children can accomplish alone and those they are capable of if guided by an adult or more competent peer, according to Vygotsky.
What is the zone of proximal development?
Substantial myelination occurs within the ____ ______, the bundle of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres, during early childhood.
What is the corpus callosum?
During middle childhood, the use of mnemonics becomes more common. Remembering PEMDAS (please excuse my dear aunt Sally) for order of operations in math is an example of which mnemonic?
What is elaboration?
In practice, this policy would help close later developmental gaps in academic/cognitive achievement, kindergarten preparedness, AND support parents of all economic backgrounds.
What is universal childcare?