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Child Development
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- 1TeratogensEnvironmental factors disrupting healthy neural development
- 2Examples of teratogensCigarette smoke, lead, alcohol
- 3Fetal alcohol syndromepattern of mental and physical defects that can develop in a fetus, associated with high levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy
- 4True or false: Exploring and interacting objects spurs neural growthTrue
- 5Name 2 of a childs first reflexesGrasp reflex, rooting reflex(suck when something brushes lips)
- 6Piaget's theory is also known as...Developmental stage theory
- 7What 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
- 8The process which facilitates changes in neural structure by reducing the overall number of neurons and synapsesPruning
- 9During youth, the brain is at its____dense.Most
- 10At 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
- 11At the preoperational stage (2-7 years)Children have preliminary understanding of physical world
- 12Characteristics of concrete operational stage (7-11 years)Moral thought is confined to real life problems
- 13Characteristics of formal operational stage (12 years+)Children can solve non-physical problems and apply abstract thinking
- 14Young children have____schemes than older children.Fewer
- 15Organization of schemesCombining existing schemes into new/complex ones
- 16SchemesMental patterns of interaction with the world and its ideas
- 17Which 2 processes does the extending of schemes depend onAssimilation and accommodation
- 18AssimilationUsing mental schemes already formed to interpret the environment
- 19AccommodationProcess by which schemes accommodate to the child's changing environment
- 20EquilibriumHarmony between one's schemes and one's existence
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