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1
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Theories of Moral Development

Social and Emotional Development

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Piaget’s Moral Development

Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

2
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Stages of Piaget’s Theory of Moral Development

Moral Development

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Premoral (0-5)

Heteronomous (begins 5)

Autonomous ( begins 10-11)

3
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Premoral Stage

Piaget’s Theory of Moral Development

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limited understanding of rules

0-5 years old

4
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Heteronomous stage

Piaget’s stages of Moral Development

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  • Rules are absolute and unchangeable
  • How bad an action is based on how severe the consequence
  • starts age 5
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6
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Autonomous stage of Moral Development

Piaget’s Moral Development Stages

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Rules are agreements between people; alterable

begin age 10 or 11

7
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What age do children intentionally lie according to Piaget?

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Age 7

(but actually research suggests children age 3 or 4 lie to avoid punishment)

8
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Levels of Kolhberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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Level 1: Preconventional

Level 2: Conventional

Level 3: Post Conventional

9
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Age of transition from conventional to postconventional moral level?

Kolhberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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late adolescent to early adulthood

10
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Age of transition from preconventional to conventional moral level?

Kolhberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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10 or 11 years old

11
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Convetional level children determine good vs. bad actions based on the….

Kolhberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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If they are liked by other; in accordance with rules and laws

12
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Postconventional level adolescents determine good vs. bad actions based on the….

Kolhberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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democratic laws and universal principles

13
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Preconventional level children determine good vs. bad actions based on the….

Kolhberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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Consequences

Punished = bad action

Rewarded = good action

Similar to heteronomous stage of Piaget’s model for 5-10 year olds

14
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Attachment Theories

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  1. Contact Comfort (Zimmerman)
  2. Ethological Theory-Biological Progressive Attachment (Bowlby)
  3. Feeding (Freud)
  4. Internal Working Model (Bowlby)
15
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Attachment develops around what age?

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6 or 7 months

16
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“Social Referencing” (i.e. “visual cliff” behavior) develops at what age?

Attachment Signs

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6 months

17
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Separation Anxiety develops at what age?

Peaks at what age?

Attachment Signs

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6 months

14-18 months

18
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Outcomes of prolonged separation based on age.

no damage vs. damage?

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Seperation before 3 months = o.k.

Seperation after 9 months = mod. to severe

19
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Stages of response to prolonged separation (Bowlby)

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Protest

Despair

Detachment

20
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Four attachment patterns in childhood

Based on Ainsworth strange situatio

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  1. Secure Attachement
  2. Anxious/Avoidance
  3. Anxious/Resistant
  4. Disorganized/Disoriented
21
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Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment

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  • alternate between avoidance and proximity
  • appear dazed, confused, apprehensive

often maltreated by caregivers

22
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Anxious/Resistant Attachment

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  • anxious when Mom present
  • distress when Mom leaves; ambivalent when return
  • wary of strangers even when Mom present

Caused by inconsistent response of enthusiasm vs. indfference

23
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Anxious/Avoidant Attachment

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  • no exploration (uninterested in environ)
  • no distress when Mom leaves; avoid contact when return
  • may or may not be wary of strangers
24
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Secure Attachment

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  • Explore with or without Mom
  • Distress when Mom leaves; contact when return
  • Prefers mom to strangers but friendly when Mom present
25
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Secure/Autonomous Attachment

Adult Attachment Styles

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  • coherent description of early attachment relationships
  • integrate pos. and neg. experiences
  • not angry

Children are secure

26
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Preoccupied Attachment Style

Adult Attachment Styles

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  • confused, incoherent, angry
  • childhood involved disappointment and role reversal

children Anxious/Resistant Ambivalent

27
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Dismissing Attachment

Adult Attachment Styles

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  • guarded and defensive
  • idealize parent but no concrete examples

3/4 of children are anxious/avoidant

28
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Unresolved Attachment Style

Adult Attachment Styles

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  • adults experienced severe trauma and not resolved trauma
  • childhood abusive or neglectful

children disorganized or disoriented

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30
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Early Emotions (birth)

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interest, disgust, distress,

sadness, joy, surprise, fear

31
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Early Emotions (15 months to 2 years)

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self-conscious/social emotions

envy, empathy, embarassment

32
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Theories of Language Development

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Behavioral Theories

Nativist Theories (Chomsky)

Cogntive Theories (Bowerman)

33
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Behavioral Theories of Language

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Language = reinforcement and imitation

ex. motherese and recasting

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Nativist Theories of Language

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Language = innate, biologically determined, sensitive period

ex. LAD from Chomsky

35
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Cognitive Theories of Language Development

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Bowerman states language is used to express cognition already formulated in mind; independent from language

36
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Children are born with 3 cries

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basic (hunger)

pain

angry

37
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Children learn to cry for attention at ____ weeks

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3 weeks

38
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Sequence of Language Development (1 month to 9 months)

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Cooing (1-2);

Babbling (4-6),

Echolalia and Expressive Jargon (9+)

39
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Sequence of Language Development (10 months to 24 months)

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First Words (10-15 months)

Holophrastic Speech (single words used to express sentences; 12-18; 1yr),

Telegraphic Speech (uses two words to express sentence: 18-24; 1.5 yr)

40
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Sequence of Language Development

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Cooing (1-2); Babbling (4-6),

Echolalia and Expressive Jargon (9+)

First Words (10-15 months)

Holophrastic Speech (single words used to express sentences12-18; 1yr), Telegraphic Speech (uses two words to express sentence 18-24; 1.5 yr)

Rapid Vocabulary (30-36/3 yrs)

Develpt of Complex Grammar (36-48; 3-4 yrs)

41
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Sequence of Language Development (3-4 years)

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Rapid Vocabulary (30-36/3 yrs)

Develpt of Complex Grammar (36-48; 3-4 yrs)

42
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1 month early motor development

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turns head

grasp reflex

43
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3 months motor development

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head bob

holds rattle

44
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5 months early development

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head erect and steady

plays with toys

45
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7 months motor development

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Sits

Transfers objects in hand

46
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9-10 months early development

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Pulls self to stand

uses thumb and index finger

47
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11-15 months motor development

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Walks using furniture

builds tower of blocks

48
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A
49
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18-24 months motor development

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walk up stairs

uses toilet and spoon

50
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Cognitive Theories of Development

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Piaget’s constructiv. theory

Vygotsky’s Sociocultural theory

Information Processing theory

Neo-Piagetian theories

51
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What are Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

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Sensorimotor (0-2)

Preoperational ( 2-7)

Concrete Operational (7-12)

Formal Operational (12+)

52
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Sensorimotor Stage

Piaget’s Constructivist Theory

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Children learn about objects through sensory information and motor activity

has six substages

53
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First substage of sensorimotor stage?

(name and month?)

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Early Reflexive Rxns (0-1 month)

54
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Second substage of sensorimotor stage?

(name and month?)

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Primary Circular Reactions

(1 to 4 months)

55
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Third substage of sensorimotor stage?

(name, months)

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Secondary Circular Reactions

(4 to 8 months)

56
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Fourth substage of sensorimotor stage

(name; months)

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Coordination of secondary circular reactions

(8-12 months)

57
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Fifth substage of sensorimotor stage

(name; month)

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Tertiary Circular Reactions

(12 to 18 months)

58
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Sixth substage of sensorimotor stage

(name, months)

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Emergence of Representational Thought

(18-24 months)

59
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Early Reflexive reactions (0-1 month)

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gain control and practice reflexive behaviors

60
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Primary Circular Reactions (1 - 4 months)

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discover pleasurable actions (thumbsucking) then repeat them

61
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Secondary Circular Reactions (4-8 months)

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Discover actions involving obects then repeat them

(shaking rattle)

62
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Coordination of Secondary Circular Reactions

(8-12 months)

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combine secondary circular reactions to meet a goal

(uncover rattle then reach for it)

63
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Tertiary Circular Reactions (12-18 months)

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Infants deliberately change an action to discover the consequences

(dropping a ball from different heights)

64
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Emergence of Representation Thought

(18-24 months)

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Infants develop mental representations that allow them to think of past objects not in present

65
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In the preoperational stage infants develop…

(2-7 years)

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  • symbolic function (words, images stand for another)
  • pretend play
66
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Preoperational stage is limited by…

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transductive reasoning–2 events that happen at the same time are causal

egocentrism–inability of children to understand that others don’t experience things the same way they do

67
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Transductive reasoning and egocentrism in the preoperation stage leads to…

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animism and magical thinking

68
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What is conservation?

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understanding that the underlying properties of an object don’t change even if physical appearances do

develops in concrete operational stage (7-12)

Requires decentration and reversibility

69
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In addition to transductive reasoning and egocentrism, children in the preoperational stage are unable to use this ability ______.

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conservation

70
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A lack of conservation in the preoperational stage is due to these two cognitive errors:

_____ and _____

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  • centration (overfocus on one detail and neglect other features)
  • irreversibility
71
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Concrete Operational Stage (7 to 12 years) is characterized by the development of ….

______ and ______

which allows for the ability of

___________

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decentration and reversibility

conservation

72
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Sequential development of conservation….

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length, liquid, mass, area, weight, volume

horizontal decalage

73
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Formal Operational Stage (12+ years age)

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Characterized by being able to think logically about abstract information

Hyothetical deductive reasoning

Propositional thought

74
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What does the hypothetical-deductive reasoning ability of the formal operational stage entail?

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ability to arrive and test alternative explanations for observed events

75
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What does the propositional thought ability of the formal operational stage entail?

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ability to evaluate logical validity of verbal statements without making reference to real-world circumstances

76
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Formal Operational Stage involves this error in thinking…

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adolescent egocentrism

driven by imaginary audience and personal fable

77
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Information Processing Theories of Cognitive Development

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  • human cognitive process similar to a computer
  • use logical rules but have limited capacity for amount of information
  • we become better information processors by changes to our hardware and software (biological systems and experiences)
78
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Piaget’s Constructivist Theory vs. Information Processing Theory

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Information Processing focuses on specific cog. processes (memory, attention)

IP emphasizes quantitative changes in cognition rather than qualitative changes in cognition

79
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Neo-Piagetian theories of Cognitive Development

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Combine Piaget and information processing theories

  • Constructivistic approach of stages that represent qualitative changes in cognition
  • Emphasize changes in specific cog. processes

Ex. increased capacity for working memory is due to a combination of brain maturation and experience

80
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Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory

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  • cognition is dependent on social, cultural , and historical context
  • learning occurs at the interpersonal and intrapersonal level
  • children’s “private speech” that guides actions starts off as overt but becomes covert
81
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Theories of Personality Development

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Freud’s Psychosexual Development

oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

Trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, identity, intimacy, generativity, ego integrity

82
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Freud’s Psychosexual Development

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Oral (0-1 yr)

Anal (1-3 yr)

Phallic (3-6 yr)

Latency (6-12 yr)

Genital (12+ yr)

83
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Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

(years 0 to 6)

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  1. Trust vs. Mistrust (0-1 years)
  2. Autonomy and Shame (1-3 yrs)
  3. Initiative vs Guilt (3-6 yrs)
84
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Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

(years 6-YA)

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  1. Industry vs. Inferiority (6-12 yrs)
  2. Identity vs. Identity Confusion (12+ yrs)
  3. Intimacy vs. Isolation (YA)
85
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Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

(years MA, OA)

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  1. Generativity vs. Stagnation (MA)
  2. Ego Integrity vs. Despair (OA)
86
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Comparing ages 0 to 3

Freud vs. Erikson

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  1. ​Oral (0-1)—-Trust vs. Mistrust
  2. Anal (1-3)—–Autonomy vs. Shame
87
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Comparing ages 3-12+

Freud vs. Erikson

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  1. Phallic (3-6)—Initiative vs. Guilt
  2. Latency (6-12)—–Industry vs. Inferiority
  3. Genital (12+)—-Identity vs. Identity Confusion…
88
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Oral (0-1 yr)

Freud’s Psychosexual Development

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  • Baby gets sensual pleasure with mouth, tounge
  • Fixation = thumb sucking and fingernail biting
89
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Trust vs. Mistrust (0-1 yr)

Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

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  • Responsive parenting and pleasurable feeding makes infant feel caregivers are predictable and good
  • Mistrust = too long to be comforted
90
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Anal (1-3 yr)

Freud Psychosocial Development

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Pleasure from anal (toilet training conflicts)

Fixation = anal retentive or expulsive

91
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Autonomy vs. Shame (1-3 yrs)

Erikson’s psychosocial development

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  • Greater exploration and independence
  • Parent provides opportunities for free choice
  • Fixation = shame or restrictions
92
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Phallic (3-6 yrs)

Freud Psychosexual Development

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  • pleasure from genital stimulation
  • sexual desire for parent (oedipal or electra)
  • Resolved when super ego identifies with same sex parent
93
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Initiative vs. Guilt (3-6 yrs)

Erikson’s Psychosocial development

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  • make believe play
  • parents support sense of purpose
  • Guilt = too many demands on self control
94
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Latency (6-12)

Freud’s Psychosexual development

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  • Sexual instincts repressed
  • Solidifies superego by playing with same sex child and assimilate societal values
95
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Industry vs. Inferiority (6-12)

Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

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  • Develop capacity productivity and cooperation
  • Inferiority when peers/ppl don’t foster feelings of competency and mastery
96
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Genital stage (12+)

Freud’s Psychosexual Development

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  • Sexual drive of phallic stage activated
  • If earlier stages were ok teen matures healthy sexuality
97
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Identity vs. Identity Confusion (12+)

Freud’s Psychosexual Development

A

Tasks of earlier stages integrate into lasting sense of identity

98
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Intimacy vs. Isolation (YA)

Erikson’s psychosocial development

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relationships with others foster identity and connectedness

inability to establish relationship = fear of rejection and isolation

99
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Generativity vs. Stagnation (MA)

Erikson’s Psychosocial development

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Contribute to younger generation through child-rearing, mentor, teach, productive work

100
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Ego Integrity vs. Despair (OA)

Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

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Feeling life was worthwhile vs. despair, regret, dissatisfaction

101
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Moria’s/Erikson’s Identity Status

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Identity Diffusion (no thought)

Identity Foreclosure (parent decides)

Identity Moratorium (don’t know, confused, skeptical)

Identity Achievement (identity resolved)

102
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Kohlberg is known for…

A

Theories of Moral Development

(Preconventional, conventional, postconventional)

103
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Erikson is known for

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Psychosocial Theory of Cogntiive Development

104
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Ainsworth is known for…

A

Four main attachment patterns

105
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Gilligan is known for…

A

Relational Crisis for Girls

(abandon strengths and interests in response to cultural pressures)

106
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Children begin to understand death between the ages of

A

7 to 9

(concrete operational stage)

107
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What percentage of individual differences in IQ can be explained by hereditary factors?

A

50%

108
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Examples of dominant genes include

A

dark hair, immunity to poison ivy, type B blood

109
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Examples of recessive genes

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Type O blood, red hair, congenital deafness

110
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What are sex-linked genes?

A

Recessive genes that are transmitted only through the chromosome

111
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Why is color blindness 2x as common in men than in women?

A

Color blindness is a recessive sex-linked gene. Women have an additional X that increases chances of a dominant veersion.

112
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Gene-linked abnormalities

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Huntington’s Disease (dominant)

Phenylketonuria (recessive)

Tay Sachs, sickle-cell, cystic fibrosis (recessive)

113
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Huntington’s disease

A

Gene-linnked abnormality

caused by dominant gene

child has 50% chance of inheriting

114
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Phenylketonuria

A
  • Gene-linked abnormality
  • body cannot digest the amino acid phenylalanine
  • toxic to the brain and can cause ID
115
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Chromosomal Abnormality examples

A

Down Syndrome

Prader-Willi Syndrome

Klinefelter Syndrome

Turner Syndrome

Fragile X Syndrome

116
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Down Syndrome

A

Extra #21 chromosome

117
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Prader Willi Syndrome

A
  • deletion of paternal chromosome 15
  • causes mental retardation,
  • overeating, obesity, hypogonad, obsessive compulsive,
  • narrow forehead, small hands
118
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Klinefelter Syndrome

Sex Chromosome abnormality

A
  • Affects males
  • Extra X chromosome
  • Infertile and incomplete development of secondary sex characteristics
119
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Turner Syndrome

Sex Chromosome Abnormality

A
  • Affects Females
  • Part or all of X chromosome missing
  • No sec. sexual characteristics, infertile, webbed kneck
120
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Fragile X syndrome

Sex chromosome abnormality

A
  • Both males and females
  • Weak site on X chromosome
  • Mental retardation, facial deformity, stacatto speech/rhythm
121
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What gene linked or chromosomal abnormalities can cause mental retardation?

A
  • Phenylketonuria (gene-linked)
  • Down Syndrome (chromosomal)
  • Prader-Willi (chromsomal)
  • Fragile X Syndome (sex-linked)
122
Q

Periods of Fetal Development (name and time span)

A

Germinal Period (8-10 days after conception)

Embryonic Period (End of 2nd week to 8th week)

Fetal Period (9th week to birth)

123
Q

Teratogens effects in the germinal period

(8-10 days after conception)

A
  • Teratogens only damage a few cells
  • Either little to no effect on development OR affects many cells and causes organism death
124
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Teratogens effects on embryonic period

(End of 2nd week to 8th week)

A
  • Structural defects in developing organs
  • CNS vulnerable starting now to fetal period
125
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Teratogens effects on fetal period development

(9th week to birth)

A
  • Organ systems less affected
  • Impaired organ functioning, delayed growth, imparied intellect, emotions (think DD)
126
Q

Kids born premature catch up to peers by ___ or ___ years old

A

2 or 3 years old

127
Q

Prematurity is defined as being born before ______ weeks.

A

37 weeks

128
Q

Small for gestational age is defined as having a birth weight that is…

A

Below 10th percentile

greater risk compared to premature babies

129
Q

Risk factors associated with being small for gestational age

A
  • asphyxia during birth
  • DD
  • respiratory disease
  • impaired vision and hearing
130
Q

Fetal Distress is defined as

A

Prolonged anoxia

Associated features include abnormal slowing of labor, irregular heartbeat, sustance in amniotic fluid

131
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Fetal Distress can result in…

A

cogntive and motor impairment

epilepsy

cerebral palsy

132
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Microsystem

A

child’s immediate environment (family, peers, school)

133
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Mesossystem

A

interconnection between components of microsystem

134
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Exosystem

A

Parts of the child’s evironment that the child is not in

(parent’s workplace, neighbors, comm services)

135
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Macrosystem

A

aspects of society that affect development

(racism, socioeconomic conditions, cultural standards or child rearing)

136
Q

Prenatal malnutrition during the 1st trimester (first 12 weeks) can result in…

A

Spontaneous abortion

Neural tube defect

heart, kidney, organ abnormalities

137
Q

Prenatal malnutrition during the 3rd trimester (28 to 40+ weeks) can result in…

A
  • Low birth weight
  • Low brain size and weight
138
Q

General risks of prenatal malnutrition includes…

A

cardiovascular disease

diabetes

other chronic diseases

139
Q

Brain decreaes in weight at ____ years and ____ years due to decreases in neurons

A

30 years

60 years

140
Q

List Infant reflexes

A

Palmar grasp–grasps finger

Babinski reflex–stroke foot; extend big toe

Moro (startle) reflex–arches back when head dropped

Rooting–turn head in direction of cheek stroke

141
Q

At what age can children walk without help…

A

12-14 months

142
Q

at what age can children walk upstairs with hand being held

A

18 months

143
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at what age can children walk upstairs alone?

A

24 months

144
Q

Vision development in infants

A
  • See 20 feet @ birth
  • Detect colors @ 2-3 months
  • Depth Perception @ 6 months
  • Visual Acuity @ 1 year
145
Q

At what age do adults become farsighted?

A

age 40

146
Q

Problematic drug use frequency in adolescents

A

alcohol–>tobacco–> marijuania–>cocaine meth

147
Q

Memory in infants

A

Birth: Recognition Memory

2-3 months: Cued Recall

2-3 years: Episodic memory of events weeks or months earlier

148
Q

Infantile amnesia is when adults don’t recall anything before ____ years of age.

A

3 or 4

149
Q

Declines in Memory in adulthood

A
  • Recent long term memory > WM
  • specifically episodic losses > semantic or procedural*
  • Remote long term mem and primary mem (STM) not affected by age
150
Q

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

A

logical-math

musical

bodily-kinesthetic

spatial

interpersonal

intrapersonal

naturalist

151
Q

Sternberg’s Triarchic Model

A

Componential/Analytical–process, analyze information

Experiential/Creative–unfamiliar tasks

Contextual/Practical–respond to environment

152
Q

Guilford’s Structure of Intelligence

A

convergent (1 answer)

divergent (+ answers)

153
Q

Intelligence and genetics+environment concordance for twins

A

Identical Twins reared together: .85

Identical Twins reared apart: .68

Fraternal twins reared together: .58

154
Q

Genetic and environmetal factors IQ concordance for siblings

A

Siblings raised together: .45

Siblings raised apart: .24

155
Q

Genetic and environmetal factors IQ concordance for parent and child

A
  • biological parent and child together: .39
  • biological parent and child apart: .22
  • adoptive parent: .18
156
Q

Seperation anxiety begins at

A

6 months

157
Q

seperation anxiety peaks at

A

14-18 months

158
Q

stranger anxiety begins at…`

A

10 months

159
Q

Stranger anxeity peaks at…

A

18-24 months

160
Q

Social Referencing (visual cliff experiment) begins at age…

A

6 months

161
Q

When a mother leaves the room a secure-attached child will

A

be distressed and seek contact with mom when they return

162
Q

With a stranger and mom present, a secure attached child will…

A

be friendly to stranger when mom is present

163
Q

When a mother leaves an Avoidant attachment style baby will…

A

not be distressed and avoid contact with mother when she returns

164
Q

How will a baby with an avoidant detachment style will act toward a stranger?

A

may or may not be wary of a stranger

165
Q

How will a resistant baby act when mom is present?

A

distressed when mom leaves; ambivalent when mom returns

166
Q

how will a resistant baby act in the presence of strangers?

A

wary of strangers; even if mom is present

167
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how will a disorganized baby act with their mother

A

alternate between indifferance and proximity-seeking with mother

168
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Intelligence Theories

A
169
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Intelligence Tests

A