Child Development

Question	Answer
Teratogens	Environmental factors disrupting healthy neural development
Examples of teratogens	Cigarette smoke, lead, alcohol
Fetal alcohol syndrome	pattern of mental and physical defects that can develop in a fetus, associated with high levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy
True or false: Exploring and interacting objects spurs neural growth	True
Name 2 of a childs first reflexes	Grasp reflex, rooting reflex(suck when something brushes lips)
Piaget's theory is also known as...	Developmental stage theory
What was Piaget's theory?	Child relies on different type of thinking, once the child has developed through the stages of intellectual growth they can think like adults
The process which facilitates changes in neural structure by reducing the overall number of neurons and synapses	Pruning
During youth, the brain is at its____dense.	Most
At the sensorimotor stage (birth-2 years)...	Infants have no object permanence i.e. when object isn't in sight they don't think it exists anymore
At the preoperational stage (2-7 years)	Children have preliminary understanding of physical world
Characteristics of concrete operational stage (7-11 years)	Moral thought is confined to real life problems
Characteristics of formal operational stage (12 years+)	Children can solve non-physical problems and apply abstract thinking
Young children have____schemes than older children.	Fewer
Organization of schemes	Combining existing schemes into new/complex ones
Schemes	Mental patterns of interaction with the world and its ideas
Which 2 processes does the extending of schemes depend on	Assimilation and accommodation
Assimilation	Using mental schemes already formed to interpret the environment
Accommodation	Process by which schemes accommodate to the child's changing environment
Equilibrium	Harmony between one's schemes and one's existence

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