Child Growth and Development
Refers to the specific body changes and increases in the child's size, such as a child's height, weight, head circumference, and BMI.
What is Growth?
Ways to remember Piagets Theory
What is 4 letters... 4 Stages?
it influences a child through the inheritance of physical characteristics and temperament from birth parents at the time of conception.
What is Heredity?
The important factor in evaluating a child's progress.
What is sequence?
The most positive attributes of society. Acts of kindness benefits all persons, the giver and the receiver.
What is Prosocial Behavior?
Children develop in relatively the same way
What is Developmental Sequence is Similar for All?
What are the five levels of Maslows Theory?
2. Comfort and Safety
3. Social
4. Self-Esteem
5. Self- Actualization
what is contributing factors?
It requires childcare professionals to be alert to opportunity to encourage and praise children who demonstarting persistence.
What is Approaches to Learning?
People who are self-disciplined are aware of appropriate behaviors and their effect on others.
What is Self Discipline?
A set of facts analyzed in relation between one another and used to explain a phenomena.
What is Theory?
Erikson describes emotional development as a series of 8 stages, called ____, which must be "resolved" before proceeding to the next____.
What is Conflict?
There are approximately ___ billion brain cells at birth, but there is minimal "wiring" between them.
What is 100?
Forming ____ with peers is an important part of child growth and development.
What is friendship?
Children learn during the activity by doing.
What is Active learning?
children continue to add new behavior and skills as they perfect abilities to walk, to write or draw, and to speak.
What is Development is Continuous?
Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of cognitive development focuses on the connections between ____ and the ____ in which they interact.
What is people and Culture?
What is childhood obesity?
Creating a ____ environment with plenty of art, books, vocabulary strips, maps, and posters, and alphabet signs.
What is print-rich?
Making decisions about the education and the well-being of children based on three important sources.
What is DAP?
An increase in complexity, a change from relatively simple to more complicated.
What is Development?
Whos theory focuses on the child's independence in order to engage them in a developmentally appropriate learning environment.
Who is Maria Montessori?
A federal law requires childcare programs to comply with specific accessibility guidelines to support children with developmental disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Basic understanding of themselves and their family members before expanding to their peers and other people.
What age group listens to a guest speaker?
What is Preschool 3 to 5 years?