Physical Development
A gland in the brain that releases hormones that induce physical growth?
What is the pituitary gland?
This type of play is what allows children to advance their cognitive skills and allows them to practice and strengthen their mental representation.
What is make-believe play?
A term used when children are able to develop a set of attributes, abilities, attitudes, and values that an individual believes defines who they are.
What is self-concept?
Contributes to school readiness and academic performance
What is Early childhood social maturity?
This theory involves the process of cognitive development from birth to adolescence. During the stage of early childhood, children see an increase in symbolic thinking according to this theory.
What is a bad way of getting children to eat healthy foods?
Bribing them with an extra amount of another food after they eat the healthy item.
During early childhood, children develop this skill which allows them to view symbolic objects as both an object in its own right and a symbol.
What is dual representation?
Develops towards age 4. Able to have self judgements about themselves. With this concept children rate their abilities higher than reality. Also parents criticization can lead to low motivation.
What is self esteem?
Parents influencing their child's relations and through their child's-rearing practices.
What is peer sociability?
This theory explains that children enhance their thinking and ability to control their own behavior and acquire values, beliefs, and problem-solving strategies through social interactions within themselves and others.
What is Vygotsky's Sociocultural theory?
While in the stage of early childhood, there is a term that represents the skills a child develops. During this stage the skills of running, jumping, hopping, skipping, galloping, and drawing. What is that term?
What are Motor Skills?
Concept in which adults responses restructure children's grammatically inaccurate speech into correct form. This is connected to the language development of a child.
What is a recast?
The ability to respond to ongoing demands of experience with different emotions in a tolerable manner. Children are able to react emotionally. Develops by ages 3 to 4.
What is emotional self-regulation?
A type of discipline in where an adult helps make the child aware of feelings by pointing out the effects of the child's misbehavior on others.
What is induction?
Moral behavior learned through modeling
What is Social learning theory?
Term for a side of the cerebral cortex responsible for skilled motor actions and important abilities. Also determines which side of brain controls what actions in children. Determines left or right handed.
What is a dominant cerebral hemisphere?
This concept is developed in a child and it includes working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control.
What is executive function?
Feelings that involve injury to or enhancement of their sense of self. Develops around age 3. Type of emotions. Emotions include guilt, shame, embarrassment, and pride.
What are self-conscious emotions?
This concept is a child's concerns of choice of friends, hairstyle, and leisure activities, that do not violate rights and are up to the individual.
What are matters of personal choice?
Combines features of social learning
What is Gender Schema Theory?
This hormone is necessary for the brain to develop and if a child lacks this hormone they will be intellectually disabled. It releases thyroxine.
What is thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)?
Process of connecting new words with their underlying concepts after only a brief encounter. This is also the way children learn new vocabulary quickly.
What is fast mapping?
This emotion gains an understanding for why someone may feel a certain way. It also involves the process of stepping in someone else's shoes and motivates prosocial behavior. Children that struggle with emotion regulation lack this emotion.
What is empathy?
Although ethnic groups effectively combining parental warmth with high levels of control, harsh and excessive control impairs
What is academic and social competence?
The psychological conflict of early childhood, which is resolved positively through play experiences that foster a healthy sense of initiative and through development of a superego, or conscience, that is not overly strict and guilt-ridden.
What is Erikson's theory of initiative versus guilt?