Child Developmental Theorists
Developmental Frames of Reference and Theories
OTPF
Neonatal Development
Early Childhood Development
100

Which theorist created a theory focusing on the hierarchy of human needs? The levels include physiological needs, safety, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization

Who is Maslow, also called Maslow's hierarchy

100

Fill in the blank: 

The frame of reference is a link between ____ and application

What is Theory

100

What does OTPF stand for, and what is the purpose of this document?

Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, 

  • An official “guideline” document of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).

  • Summary of interrelated constructs that describe the scope of occupational therapy practice

100

True or False: By 6 days of age, infants are able to discriminate the smell of their mother's milk.

TRUE

100

What theory describes gender differences develop from the contrasting roles of men and women in the society?

Social role theory

200

This theorist label cognitive development in 4 stages. (Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational) This theory describes the learning and understanding of the world in those 4 stages

Who is Jean Piaget

200

What concept of development includes aspects of genetic disposition and environmental factors

What is Nature vs Nurture

200

What in the OTPF describes the scope of practice, areas of expertise, and actions practitioners take when providing services?

What is Domain and Process

200

What area of the brain is responsible for producing words?

Broca's Area/Left frontal lobe

200

Attention is a key concept in information processing, describe executive attention and sustained attention.

Executive attention: involves planning actions, allocating attention to goals, detecting and compensating for errors, monitoring progress on tasks and dealing with novel or difficulty circumstances. 

Sustained attention: focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event or other aspect of the environment 

300

This theorist focused on psychoanalytic theories specifically that development is unconscious and heavily colored by emotion. Another main component of his work is that personality is made up of three structures: id, ego, and superego 

Who is Sigmund Freud

300

Name this developmental theory: behavior, environment, and cognition are the key factors in development

what is the social cognitive theoy

300

Name the 5 areas of the Domain in the OTPF

Occupations, client factors, context, performance skills, performance patterns

300

Referring to the sequence of language development of infants, after cooing at 2-4 months, what is the next level of language at 5 months?  

Understanding words at 5 months.

300

Describe these three types of play:

Pretense/symbolic play, Sensorimotor play, practice play

  • Pretense /symbolic play: the child transforms the physical environment into a symbol. Children use objects in symbolic play. They transform objects into other objects.

  • Sensorimotor play: Behaviors by infant level to derive pleasure from exercising their sensorimotor schemes. Infants use exploratory, playful visual and motor actions. They learn to use objects.


  • Practice play: Involves the repetition of behavior when new skills are being learned or when physical or mental mastery and coordination of skills are required for games or sports
400

This American psychologist's is one of the leading architect's in the social cognitive theory. His early research focused heavily on observational learning.

Who is Albert Bandura

400

Name the difference between in factors between the Ethological theory and ecological theory

Ethological theory: biological factors

Ecological theory: environmental factors.

400

Evaluation, Intervention, and Outcome can be found where within the OTPF

Within the Process

400

List the progression of grasp in infants 

palmar grasp, opposed grasp, three-point grasp, pincer grasp

400

Baumrind developed the most widely known description of parenting styles. Name and describe all 4 parenting styles.

  • Authoritarian-restrictive, punitive, controlling

  • Authoritative- controls, allows some child discussion

  • Neglectful – not involved in the child’s life

  • Indulgent- very involved, but very permissive

500

This theorist work holds that development reflects the influence of several environmental systems. The theory identifies the 5 environmental systems: Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem, and Chronosystem

Who is Urie Bronfenbrennner

500

True or False: The frame of reference was proposed by Anne Cronin Mosby as a way of organizing knowledge so that it could be used for planning and intervention

True

500

What areas of a clients life is described under client factors? Describe each

Values, beliefs, and spirituality

Body Functions

Body Structures

500

List Piaget's 6 sensorimotor substages

simple reflexes

first habits/primary circular reactions

secondary circular reactions

coordination of second degree reactions 

tertiary circular reactions

internalization of schemes

500

Describe fine motor development at 2 years, 3 years and 4 years old.

  • 2-years-old– clumsy, tends to over-grasp and over release due to lack of modulation

  • 3-years-old - pincer grasp, block tower, puzzles consistent but clumsy/not precise; simple fasteners; snips with scissors

  • 4-years-old - better coordination and accuracy. Improvements noted in eye-hand coordination; copy shapes, some letters