Hodgepodge
This is Piaget's concept when children use current schemes to interpret the external world.
What is assimilation?
This explains how temperament and environment can together produce a favorable outcome. You might look for this when searching for quality child care for your child.
What is goodness-of-fit?
Extreme social deprivation can lead to this. It is a growth disorder characterized by very short stature, immature skeletal age, and serious adjustment problems.
What is psychosocial dwarfism?
This is another one of Piaget's concepts, this refers to the idea that certain characteristics, or attributes, of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes.
What is the law of conservation?
According to Evan Kidd, children who grow up with these are more creative, develop a stronger theory of mind, and are better storytellers.
What are imaginary friends?
This refers to the inability to retrieve events that happened to you before the age of 3 year old.
What is infantile amnesia?
This is a special form of communication in which caregiver responds to infant signals in a well-timed, rhythmic, appropriate fashion.
What is interactional synchrony? Also accepted "serve and return."
____ is released during sleeping hours, contributing to body growth.
What is growth hormone (GH)?
Vygotsky's term for children's self-directed speech.
What is private speech?
The is the name of the study where researchers looked at the reunification behavior between mother and child after the child was left alone with someone they didn't know.
What is the Strange Situation?
This refers to the cognitive operations that enable us to achieve our goals in cognitively challenging situations? It includes the ability to control attention, suppress impulses, coordinate working memory, and flexibility in thought and behavior.
What is Executive Functioning?
This behavior begins at 8 to 10 months, when infants actively seek emotional information from a trusted person in an uncertain situation.
What is social referencing?
This is a large bundle of fibers that connect the two cerebral hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This refers to adjusting the support offered during a teaching session to fit the child's current level of performance.
What is scaffolding?
This is the type of parenting style where parent's are least responsive to their children. An extreme form of this type of parenting could lead to evidence of neglect.
What is Uninvolved parenting?
Around the age of 2 months, babies begin to make these vowel-like noises.. oooo aaaaaa uuuuuu.
What is cooing?
According to Thomas and Chess study on temperament, 65% of children fell into these 3 types of temperament. They are?
What is easy child, difficult child, and slow to warm up child?
This is the stage of the cognitive development theory that spans from 2 to 7 years. It has the most obvious change for children in this stage is the extraordinary increase in representation, or symbolic, activity.
What is the preoperational stage?
By age 3 1/2 to 4, most children grasp this mathematical principle--that the last number in counting a sequence indicates the quantity of items in the set.
What is cardinality?
This is a limited form of social participation in which a child plays near other children with similar materials but does not interact with them.
What is parallel play?
These are two word utterances that toddlers will use. "Mommy bye-bye" "Daddy Up."
What is telegraphic speech?
This becomes the guide for all future close relationships. Your parents brought it with them from their families and it may have influenced how they raised you. (Week 7)
What is internal working model?
This is one Piaget's concepts, the failure to distinguish the symbolic viewpoints of others from one's own. Mine! Mine! Mine!
What is egocentrism?
This is the federal program that began in 1965 to combat the War on Poverty. It provides low income families with a year or two of preschool and other comprehensive services.
What is Head Start?
This is when children engage in separate activities but exchange toys and comment on one another's behavior.
What is associative play?