Nuclear Family - Answers traditional family: father, mother, and child
single parent family - Answers consists of only one parent and one or more children
extended family - Answers 2 or more adults related by blood or marriage living within the same
house and working towards common goals
childless family - Answers couples who do not have children, either by choice or biological factors or
chance
step family - Answers blended families, involves 2 separate families merging into one new unit
grand parent family - Answers grandparents are raising grandchildren
toddlerhood (1-2yr) - Answers temper tantrum's, plays pretend, walks alone, drinks from a cup, eats
from a spoon, shows defiant behavior
early childhood (3-8yr) - Answers shows affection, understands the concepts of "Mine", hops/jumps,
wants to please, speaks clearly, likes to sing and dance
middle childhood (8-11yrs) - Answers full of energy, may be clumsy, easily embarrassed, points,
talkative, tattling, teasing/bullying, peer pressure, logical thinking, understands consequences
adolescence (12-18yr) - Answers rapid increase in hight, weight and strength
physical and sexual maturity, acne, worried about failure, moody, engages in a deeper thought
process, knows right from wrong
Domains of Development: Cognitive - Answers thinking, intelligence, and language abilities
Domains of Development: Physical - Answers growth and acquiring fine and gross motor skills
Domains of Development: Motor - Answers strengthening of a child's bones, muscles, and ability to
move and touch their surroundings
Domains of Development: Social - Answers working together with others, making friends, and
resolving conflict
Domains of Development: Emotional - Answers ability to regulate and appropriately express feelings
Domains of Development: Language - Answers process by which children come to understand and
communicate language during early childhood
ABCD Objectives - Answers Audience: describe the learner
Behavior: what student will learn or be able to do
Condition: resources or materials used
Degree: level of mastery students must demonstrate
Vygotsky - Answers believes that some keystones of language can be progressed by social
interactions
Zone of proximal development - Answers the difference between what children can do with
assistance and what they can do alone
Self regulation - Answers the control of behavior, emotions, or thinking appropriately
parallel play - Answers activity in which children play side by side without interacting
solitary play - Answers a child plays alone, unaware of any other children playing nearby
associative play - Answers children engage in separate activities but exchange toys and comment on
one another's behavior
cooperative play - Answers play in which children genuinely interact with one another, taking turns,
playing games, or devising contests
Sigmund Freud - Answers founder of psychosexual theory
Oral stage - Answers birth - 1 year
psychosexual stage: mouth
Anal stage - Answers 1 - 3 year
psychosexual stage: bowel, bladder control
phallic stage - Answers 3 - 6 year
psychosexual stage that focuses on the genitals
latent stage - Answers 6-puberty
psychosexual stage: dormant sexual feelings
genital stage - Answers puberty - death
psychosexual stage: maturing sexual interests
ADHD characteristics - Answers hyperactivity, impulsivity, inattention, excessive talking, interrupting
verbal fillers - Answers vocalized pauses in which a speaker inserts sounds such as "uh" "um" "er"
plot diagram - Answers exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
, Folktale - Answers a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
Fable - Answers a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
legend - Answers a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events, historical path
myth - Answers a traditional story presenting supernatural characters
Neurons - Answers nerve cells that receives info and sends it to the rest of the body
Synapses - Answers carry info between neurons
Plasticity - Answers the brain's ability to change, especially during childhood based on experience
Expository Texts - Answers texts that provide factual information and explanations
textbooks, cookbooks
technical texts - Answers informative texts that explains specific skills
chemistry textbook or car repair manual
Informational texts - Answers nonfiction writing used to inform about a specific topic
autobiographies
Development - Answers changes children undergo as they age, grow, and mature
EX. language development (speech)
Learning - Answers change in knowledge or skill that results from experience and instructions
regardless of age
EX. multiplication or reading
Curriculum - Answers goals for knowledge and skills to be acquired by children and the plans for
learning experiences through with such knowledge and skills will be received
IDEA Act - Answers Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
1991, stated any STUDENT with a disability has the right to treatment and education
IEP - Answers Individualized Education Program: a written plan outlining the services to be provided
for a child 3-22yr with a disability
IFSP - Answers Individualized Family Service Plan: written plan outline services provided for a child 3-
22yr with a disability and their families
FERPA - Answers Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: states that schools must share info with
parents and qualifying students. As wells as receive written consent to release student info
Social studies concepts - Answers Culture, Geography, History, Economics, Civics
Culture - Answers Influence of geography, history, and the environment on a group of people
Geography - Answers lactation, region, reading maps and globes, landforms, bodies of water
History - Answers Significant events
Economics - Answers interactions of producers/consumers, difference between wants/needs, supply
and demand
Civics - Answers role of 3 branches of gov. rights of us citizens
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Answers self-actualization, esteem, love/belonging, safety,
physiological
self-actualization - Answers the process by which people achieve their full potential (self-fulfillment
needs)
esteem needs - Answers prestige and feeling of accomplishment (psychological needs)
love and belonging needs - Answers intimate relationships, friends (psychological needs)
safety needs - Answers security, safety (basic needs)
physioligical Needs - Answers food, water, warmth, rest (basic needs)
Sensorymotor stage - Answers (From birth to about 2 years of age) during which an infant knows the
world in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities
preoperational stage - Answers (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to
use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
concrete operational stage - Answers (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children
gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
formal operational stage - Answers (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to
think logically about abstract concepts
Maslow - Answers developed hierarchy of needs that motivates the behavior and goals for peoples
personality development
Kholberg - Answers theorist involved with the model or moral development (preconventional,
conventional, and postconventional)
Stages of Moral Development: Preconventional Morality - Answers shaped by the expectations of
adults and the consequences for breaking the rules