Chapter 1 - Learning About Children

The people, places and things that surround and influence a person.

• environment

• heredity

• caregivers

• behavior

Match the following

• brain has billions of nerve cells

• behavior

• ways of acting or responding

• sequence

• how you value yourself

• self-esteem

• step-by-step pattern that development follows

• neurons

• the study of how children master new skills

• child development

Match the following

• Both biological development & cultural experiences influenced children's ability to think & learn

• Jean Piaget

• personality develops through a series of stages

• B.F. Skinner

• Each stage of development includes unique psychological crisis.

• Erik Erikson

• When a child's actions repeatedly brings positive effects, it will be repeated and learned.

• Sigmund Freud

• Children go through four stages of thinking that shape how they see & learn about the world.

• Lev Vygotsky

The best way to learn about children is to read books about them.

• True

• False

Why is it important to understand typical behaviors of children?

• To help correct poor behavior

• To find out if you enjoy children.

• To change behavior you do not like.

• To respond to children appropriately.

Match the following

• An analysis of a behavior.

• Brain

• is the least developed organ at birth.​

• confidentiality

• Protecting privacy.

• baseline

• A count made before any steps are taken to try to change a behavior.

• interpretation

​Although all children go through the same stages of development, they do so at their own _________.​

• Sequence

• Rate

• Imitating

• Objective

_______ believed that each stage of development includes a personal crisis.

• Albert Bandura

• Jean Piaget

• B. F. Skinner

• Erik Erikson

​Albert Bandura believes that children learn by _______ other people.​

• Imitating

• Sequence

• Objective

• Rate

Middle age is the stage of life when most people retire.

• True

• False