General Questions & Vocab
What age range is "school age" for our class?
6 - 18 years old.
While typically displayed as a pyramid, this theory suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to more advanced needs.
(Maslow's) Hierarchy of Needs
A child starting to become more comfortable introducing themselves to people describes what area of development?
What is social development?
Parenting style with many limits and rules without input from child. Low warmth, high control. Children may rebel and later experience guilt, depression or anger, be obedient, distrustful, withdrawn and not a high achiever.
What is authoritarian parenting?
Communication style in which individuals express their feelings and opinions and advocate for their needs in a way that violates the rights of others.
What is the aggressive communication style?
What is the difference between growth and development?
Growth- increase in size
Development; increase in skill
In this theory an association is made between a behavior and a reward or consequence for that behavior.
Operant Conditioning (By B.F. Skinner)
A child understanding that they must ask permission before going outside to play because it is against the rules to do so without asking is what area of development?
What is moral development?
Parenting style that is high warmth and lenient.
What is permissive parenting?
A person demonstrating this form of communication is able to articulate and express their ideas, needs, and feelings in a way that is honest and direct.
What is the assertive communication style?
Definition: A sense of oneself as a unique individual
What is personal identity?
This theorist says there is a qualitative change in how children think as they gradually process through four stages.
Who is Jean Piaget? (Theory of Cognitive Development)
Sleep is important to physical development. How much is needed per night ages 5-12?
10-12 hours.
Parenting style that allows child to make their own rules and choices and learn from those consequences.
What is permissive parenting?
A person demonstrating this form of communication will have trouble expressing their thoughts or feelings, and feel as if their needs do not matter.
What is the passive communication style?
Definition: A feeling of meeting most challenges and being successful.
What is: A sense of competence?
This is the stage where children become capable of performing increasingly complex tasks. As a result, they strive to master new skills. You will need to overcome feeling competent and meeting most challenges
What is Industry vs. Inferiority? (By Erik Erikson)
With intellectual development, what part of the brain controls emotional reactions?
What is the amygdala?
In this parenting style children must learn to provide for themselves, emotionally withdrawn, feel fear and anxiety, increased risk of substance abuse.
What is uninvolved (neglectful) parenting?
Conflict style when you cooperate to a high-degree, and it may be at your own expense, and actually work against your own goals, objectives, and desired outcomes.
What is the accommodator conflict style?
A person who is trained to recognize and report signs of abuse
What is a mandated reporter?
This stage is characterized by an individuals’ understanding of universal ethical principles. These are abstract and ill-defined, but might include: the preservation of life at all costs, and the importance of human dignity. Such as the debate we studied about the husband with the ill wife needing medication.
What is the Post conventional stage of Moral Reasoning? (By Lawrence Kohlberg)
With intellectual development, what part of the brain controls planning, organizing, prioritizing and other complex thought processes
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Children of this parenting style tend to be confident about making decisions
What is authoritative (assertive-democratic) parenting?
Feeling left out by friends would be a common conflict for what age?
8 years old.