Areas of Development
Advances in physical abilities
What is physical development?
Father of Operant Conditioning
Who is B.F. Skinner?
The theory that behaviors are associated with responses
What is classical conditioning?
A skill that depends on the development of small muscles, such as those in the hands and wrists
What are fine motor skills?
Is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood
What is cognitive development?
Physical changes in size, such as gains in height and weight
What is growth?
Believed that children learn through their environment and learn through social interaction
Who is Vygotsky?
The tendency of people to repeat behaviors that have a positive result or are reinforced.
What is operant conditioning?
A skill that depends on development of the large muscles, including those in the arms, legs, back, and shoulders.
What are gross-motor skills?
A theory based on the belief that individuals’ behavior is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control.
What is behaviorism?
The gradual increase in skills and abilities that occurs over a lifetime.
What is development?
Believes that people go through 8 stages of life and at each stage they face a crisis, which will shape their personality or ego
Who is Erickson?
Maslow's theory that stated people are motivated to achieve certain needs. Basic level has to be met before other's can be achieved
What is Hierarchy of Needs?
Hand eye coordination and dexterity involves these skills
What are fine-motor skills?
Explanations that researchers formulate about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time
What are developmental theories?
Development that includes the areas of relationships and feelings. Individuals must learn social skills and how to care about others.
What is social-emotional development?
Believes there are four stages of cognitive development
Who is Piaget?
Kohlberg's Theory- The level between what a child can do or learn on his or her own, and what the child can achieve with help and encouragement of a teacher or peer with more skills and knowledge.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
The ability to get along with others and show respect for the opinions of others is a characteristic
What is social development?
Ability to think in abstract terms commonly develops during what stage of Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
What is Formal Operational?
The physical transformation from a child to an adult capable of reproduction
What is puberty?
Believed that people are motivated to achieve certain needs; when one need is fulfilled, a person seeks to fulfill the next one, and so on
Theory that stated children learn through observation or mimicking; Bobo Doll Experiment
What is the social learning theory?
Belief that children and teenagers can overcome a defeat or setback very well because of this
What is resilience?
True or False
Development is orderly.
What is True?