Principles of Caregiving
What is it called when an adult is involving a child in caregiving tasks and letting them know what is going to happen next?
A respectful interaction?
The focus of this is attachments and relationships
An infant-toddler educational curriculum
What is the basis of a play based curriculum?
Giving children choice and helping them pursue their interests
What is a method for promoting attachment?
creating a system of primary caregivers
What is perception?
the ability to take in sensory information and organize it
The three R's that promote the child's cooperative behavior and a partnership between child and caregiver
Respectful, responsive and reciprocal interactions
This is NOT infant stimulation, watered down preschool or babysitting
Infant toddler education
What are the elements of play?
open-ended exploration, self-direction, freedom to move and choices
What is the selective elimination of unnecessary synapses called?
Pruning
What is the slowest sense to develop?
vision
What is it called when the caregiver makes themselves available and is responding rather initiating
Wants nothing quality time
Name two of the roles of adults in the infant-toddler curriculum that the text states.
1. determining optimum stress levels
2. providing attention
3. providing feedback
4. modeling
What is the problem of the match?
setting up an environment that is familiar yet appropriately challenging
This is a filament extending from a nerve cell from which neural impulses are transmitted?
Axons
A few hours after birth, infants vision can see this?
human faces from 8-10 inches away
When a caregiver pays attention to what the child initiates and respond to it
Responsive caregiving
What are two types of caregiver presence?
Active and receptive
What is a happening?
experiences that broaden the idea of what infants and toddlers engage in and learn from
What is clear attachment?
seeking active closeness with the adult
This benefits infants and toddlers the most?
live human voices directed to them personally
A series of back and forth exchanges where each one is dependent on the one that came before
Reciprocal interaction?
What is a response to a behavior that strengthens the likelihood of its being repeated?
Positive reinforcement
What is scaffolding?
Providing assistance when a child is frustrated and about to give up
What is pre-attachment?
indiscriminate reactions
If a child has a sensory impairment, this can have an important impact on the child's development
early intervention?