Physical Development
Hitting a baseball with a bat is an example of
What is gross motor skill?
Sadie is a four-year-old child. Her parents, preschool teacher, and favorite toys are all a part of her:
What is microsystem?
A child's immediate relationships and activities are all a part of her microsystem. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model (nested systems including a microsystem) is a frame to map the many interacting social contexts that affect development.
Students who are successful at a task may experience gains in self-esteem, but these gains may not appear unless the task
What is valued?
Eight-year-old Damien forgets to thank a classmate when she lends him her ruler. This behavior falls in
What is the conventional domain?
Regan's grandparents on both sides emigrated from Ireland to the United States. She describes her ethnicity as "white" and feels connected to what she considers American culture and values but not particularly to the culture and values of Ireland. This is true even though she knows a lot about Irish history and traditions from her family. This best describes the outcome of her ethnic identity exploration
What is Assimilated?
Regan identifies with the majority culture of her country and does not identify with the culture associated with her ethnic background.
Sylvia's physical development is typical for her age. She walks smoothly without toddling and is even beginning to run, though she sometimes falls down. She can throw a ball a short distance but has trouble catching it. This shows that Sylvias age is around
What is 2 or 3-years old?
She is no longer a toddler. Between ages 2 and about 4 or 5, preschoolers' muscles grow stronger, their brains develop to better integrate information about movements, their balance improves, and their center of gravity moves lower, so they are able to run, jump, climb, and hop.
Television cartoons and video games are considered to be part of the
What is exosystem?
The exosystem includes all the social settings that affect the child, even though the child is not a direct member of these systems.
Mr. Donovan teaches high school students. According to Erikson, this is the developmental task that most of Mr. Donovan's high school students are trying to resolve
What is Identity versus role confusion?
Adolescence is the time when students are trying different identities and trying to find out where they belong. Peer belonging and personal identity are very important to students at this age.
Shelly does not break the rules because she is afraid of being punished. She is in this stage
What is the preconventional morality stage?
Students who are in the preconventional morality stage are concerned with consequences for behavior and fear of being caught. They may break rules if they think they will not be caught.
Hoover Elementary got a huge grant for Smart Boards due to changes in ESSA legislation. This Bronfenbrenner ecosystem is where these changes take place
What is macrosystem?
In its most recent edition, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association added binge eating as a disorder. this is different then bullimia because it does not involve
What is purging?
This is a is a serious problem, about which teachers need to be aware and something teachers are required by law to report suspected incidents of
What is child abuse?
conflict resolution in the early years sets the stage for accomplishments in later stages this exemplifies Erikson's
What is psychosocial theory of development?
The idea that people have an emotional response in response to a dilemma that they then try to explain or defend is suggested by
What is Haidt's research on moral foundations?
Haidt argued that people have an immediate instinctive reaction about what is right and wrong, and then we "reason" to justify our choice. Justifying our choices maintains our position in our group, which helped humans survive over centuries.
identity is the central conflict in these years
What is adolescent?
Girls who mature or experience puberty early or later then their peers may develop some associated emotional problem behaviors
What is earlier?
Spreading a vicious rumor about a classmate is an example of this type of aggression
What is relational aggression?
Garrett is a senior in high school. Garrett's dad has been encouraging him to go to college and major in business. His mom believes he would make a great lawyer. His AP history teacher, just like his mom, is encouraging him to pursue law. Garrett is the star on the tennis team and has thought about a career in tennis. He has been pulled in so many directions that he just wants to go to college and wait to figure out his future direction. This is Garrett's current status of identity construction
What is Moratorium?
Garrett is in moratorium—suspension of choices because of struggle.
During a class Halloween party, a fifth-grade teacher asks Jacob to pass out the cookies that a mother of one of the students has provided. Jacob gives each child and his teacher one cookie apiece and finds that there are two cookies left over. "I think these extra cookies should go to James and Clementine," he says, "because they came to school early today to help decorate for the party." This concept best describes Jacob's approach
What is Distributive justice?
Distributive justice deals with beliefs about how to divide materials or privileges fairly among members of a group. It follows a sequence of development from equality to merit to benevolence.
Tommy pushes kids and grabs them to get the toy he wants. He is exemplifying this kind of aggression
What is instrumental?
Children who come from this background are more likely to be obese
What is low-income?
A clash occurs between an adolescent's parents and peer culture regarding hair styles and fashion, this is who has the most influence
Who is the peers?
Robert is a sixth grader who believes, "I may as well not be African American because I feel like everyone else and I treat all people the same." According to Cross's model of racial identity, Robert is in this stage
What is Pre-encounter stage?
Pre-encounter, which is the first stage of this five-stage model of racial identity, describes how students may feel neutral or ignore issues of race and racial identity.
Having always wanted to be a teacher, never considering a different career, and having family members that are also teachers is an example of being in this type of identity status
What is Foreclosure?