The Family
Theories of Growth and Development
Prenatal and Infancy
Toddlerhood
Preschool and School Age
100

This family stage includes adjusting to the new family unit when grown children leave home

What is the grown-child stage?

100

In this defense mechanism an individual attributes unacceptable thoughts to another person

What is projection?

100

The times in which a neonate is assessed and given an Apgar score

When is 1 minute after birth and again 5 minutes later?

100

The current treatment for amblyopia

What is patching the stronger eye?

100

When routine dental exams should occur

When is every 6 months?

200

This family pattern offers their members choices and encourage participation and individual responsibility

What is an authoritative family?

200

These needs include feeling free from danger and risk, secure in one's own environment 

What are safety needs?

200

The age in which the infant's posterior fontanel closes

When is 4 months old?

200

A large belly and an exaggerated lumbar curvature

What is lordosis?

200

What preschool children frequently have fears of

What is the dark, mutilation, and abandonment?

300

A child's primary socializing agent

What is the family?

300

To achieve the developmental task in this stage of Erikson's psychosocial theory, children's needs are met in a timely fashion

What is trust vs. mistrust?

300

The age in which an infant can sit alone

When is 7 months?

300

This type of play involves children playing alongside other children without interacting with them

What is parallel play?

300

An extreme form of a nightmare where the child is unable to recall the event in the morning

What is a night terror?

400

This type of family includes adult married partners, with or without children

What is a nuclear or dyad family?

400

The process by which the middle-aged person focuses on leadership, productivity, and concern for future generations

What is generativity?


400

A covering of fine hair over the body of the newborn

What is lanugo?

400

A return to an earlier form of behavior where the child felt comfortable and secure during a stressful time

What is regression?

400

The ability to sort objects or situations according to their characteristics

What is seriation?

500

This family pattern offers their members complete freedom

What is a permissive or laissez-faire family?

500

In this stage of cognitive development, concepts of reversibility and spatiality are developed

What is concrete operations?

500

If the head of a back-lying newborn is turned to one side the arm and leg will extend on that side.

What is the tonic neck reflex?

500

An example of this behavior includes preferring to use the same plate at each meal

What is ritualistic behavior?

500

This type of play validates the child's worth

What is team play?