Infancy: The First Year of Life
What term describes growth and development beginning at the center of the body and progressing outward to the extremities?
What is Proximodistal Development?
Which Paigetian concept describes ability to understand that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight?
What is object permanence?
The age at which children have developed motor skills that allow them to run (to an extent).
What is 18 months?
While Verbal and Relational aggression tend to increase in early childhood, this kind typically decreases.
What is Physical Aggression?
In Colorado, these are the three main groups who are legally required to be mandated reporters.
Who are medical professionals, mental health professionals, and school employees?
This macronutrient needs to be at high levels in an infant’s diet
What is fat?
The process of incorporating new information into existing schemes without changing them.
What is Assimilation?
These deficiencies may limit physical development of children in developing countries.
What are protein, iron, and iodine deficiencies?
Increasing in early childhood, bullying and other forms of non-physical aggression are examples of this.
What is Relational Aggression?
This kind of neglect occurs when a parent or caregiver fails to enroll their child in school and/or does not adequately homeschool them.
What is Educational Neglect?
This is the primary cause of death in infants in developed countries. (bonus: give an example)
SIDS
The cognitive developmental stage that takes place between 2 and 7 years and involves representing the world in words and images.
What is preoperational?
This process in the brain forms lipid sheaths around axons, which speeds up transmission of signals from one neuron to another.
What is myelination?
This kind of parental attachment style appears when a parent/caregiver is emotionally unavailable.
What is Anxious-Avoidant?
This kind of neglect occurs when a parent or caregiver fails to provide basic living essentials or care to their child.
What is physical neglect?
You are reading to your infant cousin when the family dog enters the room. The infant looks away from you and solely pays attention to the dog, even when you are still reading. What quality of temperament is this?
What is distractibility?
Piaget’s stages of cognitive development
What are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational?
3 key features of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory
What is private speech, scaffolding, and the zone of proximal development (explain!)?
In the “Strange Experiment,” if a child is willing to explore a new space when they have a caregiver nearby, it is an example of this attachment.
What is secure attachment?
Failing to call 911 or take a sick child to the doctor in an emergency is an example of this kind of neglect.
What is Medical Neglect?
In the brain, what is the gap called where two neurons meet?
What is a synapse?
Aspects of sensorimotor substage 6
What is symbolic thought and deferred imitation?
Baumrind’s 4 types of parenting styles and their characteristic combination of warmth/limit setting.
What is Authoritative (high responsiveness, high demandingness; Permissive (high responsiveness, low demandingness); Authoritarian (low responsiveness, high demandingness); Disengaged (low responsiveness, low demandingness)?
This virtue, common in Asian and collectivist cultures, emphasizes respect, care, and obedience to parents and elders.
What is Filial Piety?
These are the 3 major long-term protective factors against child maltreatment.
What are nurturant care in childhood, positive relationship with partner, and self-awareness?