ECE1 Unit 3 History and Trends Part 2

The study of child development is often divided into two main areas.

• true

• false

When under stress, the body produces a steroid called cortisol.

• true

• false

Which term is used to describe a child from birth to the first year?

• preschooler

• infant

• toddler

• sibling

Learning to relate to others is called ___________ development.

• physical

• fine-motor

• emotional

• social

According to the _______ principle, development proceeds from the center of the body outward.

• maturation

• proximodistal

• cephalocaudal

• Vygotsky

________ is one factor that causes harmful stress to infants.

• understimulation

• overstimulation

• overprotection

• consistency

The first six months are a key window of opportunity for developing _______.

• emotional control

• math/logic

• vocabulary/speech

• vision

According to Erikson, during the first _____ months of life, children learn to trust or mistrust their environment.

• 6

• 12

• 18

• 24

_____ is adjusting what is already known to fit new information.

• Schemata

• Adaptation

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

_____________ believed that children moved forward in their cognitive development with the right social interaction and guided learning.

• Gardner

• Piaget

• Erikson

• Vygotsky