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| Linking areas of the brain (4) |
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| Cerevellum, reticular, formation, corpus callosum |
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| Left Hemisphere responsible for: (2) |
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| Language Skills, Handedness |
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Reflects dominant cerebral hemisphere
May be genetic based, but affected by experience
Few left handers show developmental problems |
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| growth is retarded because you aren't getting emotional support during childrearing seen between the ages of 2-15 |
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| Influences on Physical Growth and Health (5) |
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| Heredity and Hormones, Emotional Well-Being, Nutrition, Infectious Disease, Childhood Injuries. |
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| Appetite ______ in early childhood |
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| Effects of Infectious Diseas and Malnutrition (3) |
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| Poor diet suppresses immune system, illness reduces appetite, Diarrhea, |
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| Factors keeping american kids from getting full set of vaccinations (3) |
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| Cost, schedules, Misconceptions |
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| Factors related to childhood injuries (5) |
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| Gender and temperament, poverty, low parental education, births to teenagers, shortage of high-quality child care, societal conditons |
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| Piaget's Preoperational Stage (3) |
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| From ages 2-7, Gains in mental representation, limitations in thinking |
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| Factors of mental represntation (2) |
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| Make-believe play, symbol-real world relations |
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| Limitations in thinking factors (3) |
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| Egocentrism, Conservation, Hierarchical Classification |
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| With age, make belive gradually becomes: (3) |
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| More detached from real life conditions, less self centerd, more complex |
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| Benefits of Make believe play (5) |
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| Practice representational schemes, reflect on thinking, control behavior, and take another's perspective, gain in social, language, and literacy skills, improve attention, memeory, and logical reasoning, strengthen imagination and creativity |
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| Viewing a symbolic object as both an object and a symbol |
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| Limitations of Preoperational Thought (4) |
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| Cannot perform mental operations, Egocentrism and animistic thinking, cannot conserve, lack hierarchical classification |
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| Failure to distinguish others' views from one's own |
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| Belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities |
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| Vygotsky's Sociocltural Theory and Early Childhood (2) |
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| Private Speech, Zone of Proximal Development |
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| aka egocentric speech, foundation for all higher cognitive processes, helps guide behavior, gradually becomes more silent |
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| Zone of Proximal Development |
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| a range of tasks too difficult for the child to do alone but possible with the help of adults and more skilled peers. |
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| Effects of Zone of Proximal Development (2) |
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| Scaffolding supports child's learning, assisted discovery and peer collaboration also help children learn |
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| Vygotsky and Make-believe play (2) |
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| Imaginary substitutions help children separate thinking from objects, rules strengthen capacity to think before acting |
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| Improvements in Information Processing (5) |
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| Attention, Memory, Theory of Mind, Emerging Literacy, Mathematical Reasoning |
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| Noticing that a stimulus is identical or similar to one previoiusly experience. Easier than recall |
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| Generating mental representation of an absent stimulus |
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| Rehearsal, Organization, Elaboration |
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| Awareness and understanding of various aspects of thought |
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| Spoken Language Skills (2) |
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| Phonolgical awareness, Adult conversations |
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| Informal literacy experiences (3) |
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| Interactive reading, games, writing |
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| Relationships between quantities 14-16 months |
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| When counting, last number is the total 3-1/2 to 4 years |
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| Features of High-quality Home Environment (6) |
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| Stimulation, Physical organization, Pride-affection-warmth, social modeling, variety, no physical punishment |
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| Signs of Developmentally-Appropriate Practice (8) |
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| Physical setting, Group size, caregiver-child ration, daily activities, adult-child interactions, teacher qualifications, relationships with partents, licensing & accreditation |
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| Aggression, Ethnic-gender stereotypes, consumerism time away from other activities |
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| Potential benefits of TV (2) |
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| Learning and make-believe play, prosocial behaviour |
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| connecting new words with their underlying concepts after only a brief encounter |
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| Supporting Early Childhood Language (3) |
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| Direct feedback, recasts, expansions |
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| overextending the rules to words that are exceptions |
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| Supporting Early Childhood Language (3) |
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| Direct feedback, Recasts, Expansions |
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| Children must learn to engage in effective and appropriate communication. |
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