Development
What is Gross Motor Development?
Specialized nerve cells in the brain that send and receive messages
What are neurons?
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory focuses on these aspects of growth.
What are Social/Emotional?
Mentally organizing what you perceive and CHANGING existing schemata.
What is adaptation?
This theory believes that children learn through social and cultural exploration, and these types of activities.
What are Hands-On?
Learning to relate to others
What is Social Development?
Links between neurons
What are synapses?
In Erikson's Psychosocial Theory, each stage involves a ___________ which must be _________.
What are Conflict and Resolved?
Taking in new information and ADDING it to what you already know.
What is Assimilation?
This theory believes that this plays an important role in cognitive development.
What is Language?
A component of Physical Development, this consists of the improvement of skills using SMALL muscles.
What is Fine Motor Development?
The sequence of biological changes in children.
What is maturation?
In stage I, from Birth to 18 months, the conflict is between ________ and __________.
What is Trust and Mistrust?
Mental representations or concepts
What is Schemata?
The term for the distance between the hardest thing a child can do on their own and the hardest thing a child can do with help. In this area, instruction and learning take place.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
Learning to identify and manage feelings
What is Emotional Development?
What is the Proximodistal Principle?
In Stage 2, from 18 months to 3 years, the child wants to be independent and needs clear, consistent limits. This conflict is between ______ and ______.
What is Autonomy and Shame/Doubt?
Taking in new information and ADJUSTING what you already know to fit it.
What is Accommodation?
The term for help from a knowledgeable peer or adult, to build on existing knowledge
What is Scaffolding?
Processes people use to gain knowledge including language, thought, reasoning, problem solving, imagination (also known as Intellectual Development)
What is Cognitive Development?
The principle that development tends to proceed from the head down (first gain control of head, then arms, then legs)
What is the Cephalocaudal Principle?
In stage 3, between 3 and 6 years, the child needs to develop a sense of purpose. The conflict at this stage is ________ versus _________.
What is Initiative and Guilt?
The three main stages and associated age ranges.
What is Sensorimotor (Birth - 2 years), Preoperational (2-7 years) and Concrete Operational (7-11 years)
This theory believes that children learn through these two types of exploration.
What are Cultural and Social?