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What are the domains of development?
Cognitive, Physical, and Emotional/Social
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Describe Physical developments components?
Body size, proportions, appearance, Body systems functioning, health, perceptual and motor capabilities,
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Describe Cognitive Development
Intellectual Abilities
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Describe emotional and social development?
nEmotional communication
- nSelf-understanding, knowledge about
- others
nInterpersonal skills & relationships
nMoral reasoning & behavior
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Wha are the periods of development?
Prenatal, Infancy and Toddlerhood, Early Childhood, Middle CHildhood, Adolescense, Emerging Adulthood
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Define 'Theory'
An orderly, integrated set of statements that describes behavior, explaines behavior, predicts behaviors
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What are three basic issues in development?
Continous or discontious? One course of development vs. many possible courses? Relative influence of nature vs nuture?
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Visualize the difference between discontinous and continious development?
Stair steps versus. a slope
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Define Nature and Nuture.
- Nature is inborn, biological givens determined by genetic inheritence.
- Nuture is how the physical and social worl influence biological and psychological developement.
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Stability vs. PLasicity
Stability
- §Individuals high or low in a
- characteristic remain so at later ages.
- Early
- experience may a have lifelong impact
Plasticity
- Change
- is possible, based on experiences
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What are characteristics of Resilient Children
§Personal characteristics
§A warm parental relationship
- §Social support outside the immediate
- family
§Community resources and opportunities
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What is the medieval view of child development?
- Childhood
- (to age 7 or 8) regarded as separate phase with special needs, protections
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Describe the 16th Century view of child development?
Puritian "Child Depravity" views
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Describe 17th Century views on Childhood development?
John Locke “tabula rasa” or “blank slate” view; continuous development
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