Principles of Development
True or False: Development is unpredictable and does not follow a visible patter.
False
Height and weight
Which stage of intellectual development do only 30-40% of adults demonstrate.
Formal-Operational
Define parallel play
Playing alongside each other but not with each other.
What is thought to be the critical period for learning language?
7-12
Describe how development is continuous and life long.
It is continuous because it involves gradual and accumulative changes that occur over time.
True or false: Motor development continuously increases from birth to death, although the rate of this increase varies.
List Piaget's four stages in order:
1. Sensory motor
2. preoperational
3. concrete-operational
4. formal-operational
Emotion can be influenced by stage of life. Which stage of life do you think you experience fear the most often? why?
ex. By 8 month start to develop fear of strangers.
ex. Highschool might start to fear social situations/status
Why can't we teach other animals our verbal language?
They lack the physical structure.
2nd Principle: Individuals first develop a _____ response.
How does motor development relate to social and/ or emotional development?
Helps make social contacts: learning to walk and run allows an individual to increase the number of situations they encounter.
Making facial expressions (using muscle control) allows others to understand your emotional state
If I decided to be apart of a human rights protest regardless of the consequence or the law, which stage of development best shows my decision.
Stage 6: universal point of view that all humans should have rights.
Which emotions appear within the first three months of being born?
Excitement, distress, delight
List two ways it is thought that we acquire language?
1. Through reward
2. Biologically/ innately
The fourth principle of development
Each stage has unique features
Give an example of how society changes perception of physical development (ex. how it effects body image)
Which stage of moral development involve making a decision that will benefit you in some way.
Stage 2, but you can argue 1&3.
Give an example of how the social and emotional development of a person intertwined. (hint: role of the elderly)
Society might think elders duties are fulfilled, leading them to feel useless, which might cause feelings of anger or depression
What is the name for the sounds babies make (vowel and consonants sounds)
babbling or cooing
Give an example of why early development may be more important than later development.
Any crucial behaviour learned during early years: walking, talking, facial recognition
Explain how motor development and physical development are related.
Physical development provides the foundation for motor development: Need to grow legs before you can walk.
Measuring moral: give a scenario that could be used to measure moral development.
ex. a wife man has cancer but the drugs are too expensive for the couple to afford. The man steals the drugs to save his wife.
How does social development look after high school and into your 20's? (what influences might you encounter)
-Start to work with a boss (learn to be an employee)
-Might start to consider marriage
-Friends with more specific similar interests
What evidence is there that we are innately born with language?
1. Similar sounds across culture.
2. Children go through a similar order in learning the meaning of words then developing rules.