Nature vs. Nurture
Development Vocab
PIES
Observing Children
Random
100
The environment is all of the conditions and situations that surround and affect a child. (True/False)
What is True
100
Someone who takes care of children.
What is Caregiver
100
Intellectual development is another term for cognitive development. (true/false)
What is true
100
Relying on personal feelings and opinions, instead of facts, to judge an event
What is Subjective Observation
100
The top level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs includes needs to survive such as air, water, food, and clothing. (True/False)
What is False
200
Genes cannot be changed after birth.
What is False
200
The scientific study of children from conception to adolescence.
What is Child Development
200
The changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height
What is physical development
200
An optimal time when a person can learn a new task.
What is Teachable Moment
200
The stage of development ranging from conception until birth
What is Prenatal Development
300
Sections of the DNA molecule found in a person’s cells that determined an individual’s traits
What is Genes
300
A gradual process through which humans change from birth to adulthood.
What is Individual Life Cycle
300
The changes in the way a person's relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, and gender identity
What is Social-emotional development
300
The type of observation used when trying to change an unwanted behavior
What is Frequency Count
300
the primary level on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
What is physical
400
All of the traits passed to a child from blood relatives.
What is Heredity
400
A way of acting or responding that is common at each stage of childhood
What is Typical Behaviors
400
The way people change and grow in how they think over the stages of life
What is Intellectual development
400
A record of everything observed for a set period
What is Running Record
400
What is the stage of development ranging from birth to one month of age?
What is Infant
500
Chemicals that can change genes on and off.
What is Epigenome
500
What is the term for when a child preforms like an older child?
What is Developmental Acceleration
500
Actions involving thinking and knowing.
What is Cognition
500
A list of skills children should master, or behaviors they should exhibit at a certain age
What is Developmental Checklist
500
Which of Maslow's levels deals with the process of realizing one's own potential?
What is self-actualization