Brain
History
Theories
Child Development
Play
100

Part of neuron that sends electrical signals from the cell body; send info OUT from cell body

Axon

100

One-room public school serving individuals from all social classes.

Common School

100

Kohlberg's Thoery of Moral Development has how many stages

6

100
  • skills involving large muscles of the body

  • Include:Walking, Running, Jumping, Balancing, Coordination

Gross Motor Skills

100

During this stage of play, children will often play alone, with toys different from those of others, and be uninterested or unaware of what others around them are doing.

Solitary Play

200

Very narrow gap between neurons where two neurons exchange a signal between one’s axon and the other’s dendrite

synapse

200

One of first women doctors in Italy. opened her first school, "Casa Dei Bambini," after being given the opportunity to help underprivileged children in San Lorenzo.

Maria Montessori

200

This stage of Erikson's Psychosocial development occurs in early adulthood when we are attempting to form lasting relationships

Intimacy v Isolation

200

the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making

Cognitive Development

200

This occurs when children play side-by-side from one another, but there is a lack of group involvement amongst them. They will typically be playing with similar toys and often times mimic one another.

Parallel Play

300

mass made entirely out of nervous tissue

Controls the flow of messages between the brain and the rest of the body

Brain Stem

300

Known as the father of the common school -

  • Instrumental in public education reform

  • Advocated statewide curriculum, financing schools by property tax

Horace Mann

300
  • Stresses conscious mental processes

  • Cognitive processes are influenced by
    biological maturation

  • Four stages of cognitive development

Piaget's Thoery of Cognitive Development

300

Process by which a child learns to interact with others around him/her

Social Development

300

when a child observes others playing but does not join the play. They will frequently engage in other forms of social interactions such as conversations to learn more about the game or play that is going on.

Onlooker Play

400

process visual info from eyes

makes sense of visual information so that we are able to understand it

Occipital Lobe

400

Teacher training college, primarily to train elementary teachers for common schools.

Normal School

400
  • Process by which pre-existing knowledge is altered in order to fit new info

  • New schema may be created in this process

  • Happens when existing knowledge is not accurate

Accommodation

400

the ability to recognize, express, and manage feelings at different stages of life and to have empathy for the feelings of others

Emotional Development

400

At this stage, children will begin to play together, but not focused towards a common goal. A child will be more interested in playing with other children around them than the individual toys they play with.

Associative Play

500

Lobe responsible for problem solving,  
short-term memory, language, judgement, impulse control, and social  behavior

Frontal Lobe

500

opened the first formal kindergarten in America in 1860, based on the work of Frederick Froebel in Germany.

Elizabeth Peabody

500

Stage of PIaget's thoery when a child can:

  • Think abstractly & reason about 

    hypothetical problems

  • Think more about moral, philosophical,

    ethical, social, & political iss

Formal Operational

500

4 domains each child develops in at the same time

Social, Emotional, Cognitive, Physical

500

 where play finally becomes organized into groups and teamwork is seen.  Children are now interested in both the people that they are playing with as well as the activity at hand.  The group is more formalized with a leader, as well as other assigned roles, and play organizes around accomplishing group goals or specific tasks

Cooperative Play