Infants
Toddlers
Preschool
Early School Age
Interaction Styles
100

According to Erikson’s Stages of Human Development, this crisis is addressed in infants.

What is Trust vs. Mistrust

100

According to Erikson’s Stages of Human Development, this is the positive outcome achieved during the toddler stage.

What is a strong will

100

According to Erikson’s Stages of Human Development, this is the crisis that is addressed in the preschool stage.

What is Initiative vs. Guilt

100

According to Erikson’s Stages of Human Development, this is the positive achievement to be met during this stage.

What is a feeling of competence

100

In this interaction style, adults communicate in demands.

What is Authoritarian style

200

Actions that are unplanned, devoid of forethought.

What are Unconscious reactions

200

The ability to understand or have concern for someone other than oneself, marked by identification with and understanding of another’s situation, feelings, and motives

What is empathy

200

An abstract symbol is a person, place, or thing that comes to represent another idea or concept; in general, anything that stands for something else. 

What is an abstract symbol

200

Cooperative interaction of two or more people who are trying to achieve a common goal. 

What is collaborative

200

In this interaction style, adults may be nonrestrictive in an indulgent child-centered way or in a negligent, uninvolved way.

What is Permissive style

300

A response developed through the use of all the senses; an association of things seen, felt, heard, tasted, and smelled with other meaningful sensations or events.

What is Unconscious conditioning

300

Learning to understand and function appropriately in one’s social environment; learning how to effectively interact with others.

What is social growth

300

Reflecting the feelings expressed by another by restating back what you perceived that person to say and feel.

What is mirroring

300

One’s motivation to work constructively, to be diligent and productive.

What is industry

300

This interaction style is characterized by respect, fairness, warmth, open communication, reasoning, consistency, and involvement.

What is Authoritative style

400

Providing an example, being a role model. In positive child guidance, the adult is the primary role model.

What is Modeling 

400

A person’s self-reliance, independence, and self-sufficiency. One’s capacity to make decisions and act on them.

What is autonomy

400

A group of individuals who share similar educational principles, who work toward common goals, whose activities are linked, and whose collaborative efforts create a synchronized energy in which the power of the group is more effective than that of any one individual. 

What is a community of learners

400

The feeling of being incapable, having a pervasive sense of inadequacy and experiencing a tendency toward self diminishment.

What is inferiority

400

Many positive character traits correlated with this style such as; creativity, persistence, and original thinking.

What is Authoritative style

500

The rhythmic lilting speech that is believed to be essential for infants to acquire language.

What is Motherese

500

Objects that help toddlers cope with being little and powerless in a big, fast, and scary world.

What is Objects for cyclical self-stimulation or cuddlies

500

A type of playing that utilizes the child’s ability to grasp abstract concepts which helps preschoolers express their feelings.

What is dramatic play

500

Early school age children can no longer be controlled by physical restraint, instead we must for and rely on this.

What is the child’s inner control

500

Children treated with this interaction style are often hamed most of all and develop aggressive or destructive behavior patterns.

What is Permissive style