Attachment
This emotional bond between a child and caregiver influences future relationships.
What is attachment?
A child’s understanding of who they are, including abilities and preferences.
What is self-concept?
This parenting style is warm but has very few rules or expectations.
What is permissive parenting?
The early skills that develop before children formally learn to read and write.
What is emergent literacy?
A federally funded preschool program that supports children and families from low-income backgrounds.
What is Head Start?
This aspect of language focuses on the sounds of speech and includes the study of phonemes.
What is phonology?
A teacher helps a student sound out words while reading, but gradually reduces assistance as the student improves. This teaching strategy is best described as _____________________.
What is scaffolding?
This attachment style develops when caregivers are warm, consistent, and responsive.
What is secure attachment?
The ability to manage emotions and behavior appropriately.
What is emotional self-regulation?
This parenting style is high in warmth and structure and is associated with the best outcomes for children.
What is authoritative parenting?
Learning a new word after hearing it only once.
What is fast mapping?
This type of play is self-directed and chosen by the child.
What is free play?
This aspect of language studies the smallest units of meaning, including prefixes, suffixes, and base words.
What is morphology?
Cognitive flexibility, self-control, and working memory are components of __________________________.
What is Executive Functioning?
This attachment style may develop when caregivers are inconsistent, causing the child to become clingy and anxious.
What is anxious-ambivalent attachment?
Feeling concern for another person’s distress.
What is sympathy?
This parenting style emphasizes obedience and strict rules with little explanation.
What is authoritarian parenting?
The ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words.
What is phonemic awareness?
This type of play involves children playing side-by-side with similar materials but little interaction.
What is parallel play?
This aspect of language focuses on the rules for how words are arranged to form sentences (grammar).
What is syntax?
Children with this attachment style often appear independent and avoid seeking comfort from caregivers.
What is avoidant attachment?
Feeling what another person feels and putting yourself in their position.
What is empathy?
This parenting style involves little warmth and little supervision.
What is uninvolved parenting?
The language-learning principle where children assume an object has only one name.
What is mutual exclusivity?
This type of play involves children working together toward a shared activity or goal.
What is cooperative play?
This aspect of language refers to understanding the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.
What is semantics?
This concept describes how early caregiver interactions shape a child’s expectations about relationships.
What is an internal working model?
This emotion focuses on feeling about who you are, not what you did.
What is shame?
These three features are used to describe parenting styles.
What are warmth, control, and freedom-granting?
Understanding that the last number counted represents the total amount.
What is cardinality?
High-quality preschool programs often improve these three areas of development.
What are language, social skills, and executive function?
This aspect of language focuses on how language is used differently depending on social context or situation.
What is pragmatics?
A child insists that the moon follows them everywhere they walk. Thisis an example of ________________ thinking (think Piaget).
What is preoperational?