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Parenting and Child Devlopment
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Psychology
10th Grade
06/25/2014

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TYPICAL BEHAVIORS
Definition
ways of acting or responding that are common at each stage of childhood
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CAREGIVERS
Definition
parents and others who tend to children
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STIMULATION
Definition
activities that arouse a baby's sense of sight,sound,touch,taste,and smell
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SEQUENCE
Definition
a step-by-step pattern
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HEREDITY
Definition
the biological transfer of certain inherited characteristics from earlier generations
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ENVIRONMENT
Definition
people,places,and things that surround and influence a person including family,home,school,and community
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HUMAN LIFE CYCLE
Definition
stages of human development that present different challenges
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DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS
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challenges that must be met or skills to be acquired during different stages of life
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SELF-ESTEEM
Definition
self-worth,or the value people place on themselves
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Erik Erikson
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thought that each life stage includes a unique psychological crisis and that if that crisis is met in a postive way,the individual develops normally
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Sigmund Freud
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believed that personality develops through a series of stages and that experiences in childhood profundly affect adult life
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B.F Skinner
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argued that when a child's actions have positive results,they will repeated,and negative results will make the actions stop
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Lev Vygotsky
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wrote that biological development and cultural experience both influence children's ability to learn
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
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outlined layers of environment that affect a child's development
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Albert Bandura
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said that children learn by imitating others and although the environment shapes behavior, behavior also affects environment
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Jean Piaget
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was the first to study children scientifically and focused on how children learned
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subjective
Definition
it relies on personal opinions and feelings,rather than facts,to judge the event
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objective
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factual,and leaves aside personal feelings and prejudices
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running record
Definition
a method of writing observations in which the observer writes down everything observed about a child
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anecdotal record
Definition
an observer's reports of a child's actions,usually concentrating on a specific behavior or area of development
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frequency count
Definition
a tally of how often a certain behavior occurs
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baseline
Definition
a count of behaviors an observer makes before any steps are taken to try to change the behavior
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developmental checklist
Definition
a list of skills children should master or behaviors they should exhibit at a certain age
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interpretation
Definition
in observing children, the analysis an observer forms about what was observed
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confidentiality
Definition
protection of another person's privacy by limiting access to personal information
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parenting
Definition
caring for children and helping them grow and develop
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emotional maturity
Definition
handle the changes and demands that parenthood brings
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