Theory
This theoretical perspective emphasizes studying an individual's life from birth to death.
What is the Life Course Perspective?
A psychological disorder often associated with exposure to a traumatic event?
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This type of play clearly defines rules and encourages cooperation.
What is Friendly Rule-based Play?
This is usually considered the best kind of parenting style, in which parents are warm and sensitive to their child's needs, but still remain firm in their expectations and standards of behavior.
What is Authoritative Parenting?
Motor development includes these 2 types of skills that encompasses a child's ability to control their body movement.
What are Fine and Gross Motor Skills?
According to Erikson, this stage of development occurs during middle childhood.
What is Industry vs. Inferiority?
Common signs of this may include poor hygiene, school absenteeism or poor performance, withdrawal, or aggression.
What is Neglect?
Aggressive behavior with the intent to harm others.
What is Hostile Aggression?
Neglectful and authoritarian parenting styles, which are often characterized by low responsiveness, may lead to this type of attachment in children.
What is Insecure Attachment?
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
What is Empathy?
In Kohlberg's theory of moral development, individuals in this stage follow rules to avoid punishment.
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
Risk factors during this time may include smoking, being a female under the age of 18, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
What is Pregnancy?
This type of play involves children taking on roles and creating imaginary scenarios.
What is Sociodramatic Play?
Transitions can become these critical moments when an individual makes a significant decision that shapes their future.
What are Turning Points?
Automatic, innate responses to certain stimuli.
What are Reflexes?
Piaget states that this stage of development is characterized by egocentrism and a lack of logical reasoning.
What is the Preoperational stage?
The opposite of risk factors, some of these may include parental support, social connections, emotional intelligence, and economic opportunities.
What are Protective Factors?
This is used by a child to help them transition from one emotional state to another.
What is a Transitional Object?
Parents and families play a critical role in supporting this in middle childhood, defined as developing an overall sense of effectiveness and capability.
What is Self-Competence?
This type of reasoning includes a child's tendency to connect two events that occur in close succession, even though there is no logical relationship.
What is Transductive Reasoning?
This theorist criticized Kohlberg's theory of moral development because it did not adequately pay attention to gender differences, emotional and social intelligence, and girls' "ethic of care."
One of the biggest risks for children's growth and development, this can affect a child's cognitive and language skills, and it is also related to higher incidents of mental health issues, low self-esteem, and food insecurity.
What is Poverty?
This is essential for children's development and well-being and can help develop cognitive skills, imagination, social skills, and emotional expression.
What is Play?
This influences the emotional bond between an infant and their caregiver.
What is Attachment Style?
Choosing to use this is a highly personal choice that may be influenced by peer influence, partner's preferences, privacy concerns, education, cultural norms, and convenience.
What is Contraceptive Use?