Child Development Unit 1 Review

The principles and beliefs that guide a person’s conduct and defines personality and behavior

• environment

• character

• Ethics
• Attitudes

The scientific study of children from conception to adolescence.

• Child Development

• Cognitive Development
• Child Psychology
• Adolescent Studies

Removing something unpleasant to increase desired behavior.

• Extinction
• Punishment
• Positive reinforcement
• Negative reinforcement

 Skill that should be mastered at a certain stage of life

• cognitive development

• heredity

• brain plasticity

• developmental tasks

 Includes all traits that are passed to child from blood relatives. 

• Cultural traits
• Heredity

• Environmental factors
• Inherited behaviors

Includes all the conditions and situations that surround and affect a child 

• Child's education
• Child's health
• Child's hobbies
• Child's environment

Ability of the brain to be shaped and reshaped.

• Brain plasticity

• Synaptic decay
• Brain atrophy
• Cognitive rigidity

Discourages behavior

• Positive reinforcement
• Neutral reinforcement
• Incentivizes behavior
• punishment

Adding something good to increase desired behavior

• Punishment
• Positive reinforcement
• Ignoring behavior
• Negative reinforcement

A prime period/time in a child’s life for developing a particular skill or part of the brain.

• critical period
• developmental phase
• window of opportunity

• sensitive period