Unit 1: Ch. 1, 2, & 3

What does parenting include? (includes more than 1 answer)

• Meeting the needs of children

• Giving birth to a child

• Caring for children and helping them grow and develop

• Understanding the needs of children

Why is understanding child development so important for parents?

• It is adults who don't always know what ti expect from children at difference ages

• So that parents may have reasonable expectations for their child, depending on their age

• Because parents who have inappropriate expectation for their children will be let down.

How can parents learn about parenting skills? (choose more than one)

• classes in child development

• watching monkeys with their babies at the zoo

• read reliable books, magazines, articles

• gain experience caring for children

What is Cognitive Development

• The changes in how people percieve,sense, organize, memorize, recall, reason, problem solve and imagine that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood.

• Imagine that occur as humans develop from birth through older adulthood.

• Problem Solve

• Adulthood

What is Environment

• All of a person's surroundings and the people in them

• Surrounding people

• All people

• Person

What is Cognitive Theories

• Ideas about how people process information,think and learn

• People process the ideas about information

• The information about how people think and learn

What is Developmental Theories

• Comprehensive explanation people act

• Comprehensive explanations about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time

• people can act the same

What is true concerning childhood?

• It is a time of rapid development.

• It is a time of being dependent on caregivers.

• It is a time of preparation for adult life.

• All of these

Jamie keeps screaming when he wakes from his nap because, from previous experience, he knows his mother will come to get him. What theorist first studied this kind of learning?

• Sigmund Freud

• Jean Piaget

• B. F. Skinner

• Albert Bandura

What have researchers found out about childhood?

• It has a profound influence on the rest of a person’s life.

• The more dependent a child is, the happier he or she is.

• Virtually everyone has a happy childhood.

• Most adults have few memories of their childhood.