Wednesday, January 29, 2014

BREAKING NEWS...

I will accept the article questions on Friday! Use tonight to study for your quiz.  

Happy Catholic Schools Week :)

Monday, January 27, 2014

Ch. 8 Objectives


Ch. 8 Objectives Pgs. 204-212

1.     Define personality, psychosocial development, and emotions

2.     How does culture influence displays of emotions? (Asian vs. American culture)

3.     What are the 1st signs of emotions?

4.     Explain the progression of smiling and laughter. Social smiling? Anticipatory smiling?

5.     Explain how emotional development is an orderly process.

6.     Emotions at birth?

7.     What are the self-conscious emotions and when do they develop?

8.     Define self-awareness.

9.     What are the self-evaluative emotions and when do they develop?

10.   Define altruistic behavior.

11.  What is empathy? How can it be seen in early infancy?

12.  What are mirror neurons?

13.  How does empathy depend on social cognition?

14.  What does Piaget say about egocentrism and the development of social cognition?

15.  Define temperament.

16.  What were the goals and set-up of the New York Longitudinal Study (Thomas and Chess)?

17.  Explain the three categories in which children were classified.

18.  How stable is temperament?

19.  Explain the goodness of fit model.

20.  What are the conclusions of the Kagan study from the text about shyness and boldness?

Ch. 8- Infant Morality

According to the infant cognition lab studies conducted by Paul Bloom at Yale University, babies have an inborn tendency to prefer "good" over "bad."  However, infants also have a inborn bias to prefer those who are similar to them. Thus, Bloom and his associates concluded that although babies are born with a primitive morality, the roots of "evil" (bias, bigotry, racism) may also be inborn.

In addition to the Yale study, other studies regarding infant morality have been conducted at the University of Texas, the University of Colorado, and Duke University. Read about these studies in the article See Baby Discriminate, published in Newsweek in 2009, to understand how infants as young as six months have the tendency to discriminate others based on skin color.

Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a word document.  Format with MLA heading.



Due: Thursday, January 30th at the beginning of class

Value: 15 points

Birgette Vittrup- University of Texas: Multicultural Videos
1. Identify the goal and set-up of Birgette Vittrup's study regarding the influence of multicultural videos on children. Include information about the 3 groups utilized in the study.

2. Why did 5 families drop out of Vittrup's study?

3. Why did the study initially seem like a "failure?"

4. Why were parents reluctant to talk to their children about race? In what manner did they discuss the topic with their children?

5. How does the race of the parents affect racial discussions in the home?

Rebecca Bigler- University of Texas: Preschool T-shirts 

6. Explain the set-up of the t-shirt activity in 3 preschool classrooms.

7. How did the children's behavior/attitudes change?

8 . Why does Bigler believe that children should be spoken to about race before the age of 3 years?

Phyllis Katz- University of Colorado: Photos of faces

9. Explain the set-up of Katz's study. How did 6-month-olds react to photos of their own race versus a different race?

10. What was the result of the experiment with 3-year-olds and their choosing of "friends?"

11. What was the result of 5 to 6-year-olds who were asked to sort cards?


12. When do most parents feel it is "safe" to start talking to children about race?

Monday, January 6, 2014

Midterm Study Guide



Chapter 1- Studying a Child’s World
1.      Early approaches to studying child dev
2.      History of adolescence
3.      Quantitative, qualitative changes
4.      Cognitive, physical, psychosocial dev.
5.      Stage of most rapid growth
6.      Individual differences
7.      Parenting styles
8.      Nuclear, extended, blended, multigenerational family
9.      Maturation
10.   Discontinuity of growth rate
11.   Asynchronous growth
12.   Critical periods
13.   Impact of socioeconomic status
14.   Charles Darwin
15.   Jean Itard
16.   John Locke
17.   John Dewey
18.   G Stanley Hall
19.   Maria Montessori
20.   Alfred Binet
21.   Ages and stages of child development
Chapter 3- Forming a New Life: Conception, Heredity, and Environment
1.      Nature v Nurture debate
2.      Fertilization
3.      Uterus, ovaries, fallopian tube
4.      Identical vs fraternal twins
5.      Impact of fertility drugs
6.      Infertility in men, women
7.      In vitro fertilization
8.      Chromosome; #
9.      Sex chromosome for man, woman
10.   Multifactorial trait
11.   Heterozygous, homozygous
12.   Genotype, phenotype
13.   Recessive, dominant inheritance
14.   Tay Sachs, Sickle cell, Cystic fibrosis, PKU, Down Syndrome
15.   Huntington’s disease
16.   Genetic counseling
17.   Gene therapy
18.   Canalization
19.   Reaction Range
20.   Genotype-environment interaction
21.   Genotype-environment correlation
22.   Nonshared environmental effects
23.   Concordance
24.   Schizophrenia, autism
Chapter 4- Pregnancy and Prenatal Development
1.      3 prenatal stages and characteristics
2.      Descriptions of what happens in each trimester (ch 4 worksheet)
3.      When time is the best for a couple’s chances of getting pregnant?
4.      Menstrual age, gestational age
5.      Cephalocaudal, proximodistal principles
6.      Time of prenatal most rapid growth
7.      Time of most vulnerable prenatally
8.      Causes of miscarriages
9.      Function of placenta, amniotic sac, umbilical cord
10.   Folic acid
11.   Exercise during pregnancy
12.   Effects of smoking, caffeine, cocaine on prenatal development
13.   Recommended weight gain during pregnancy
14.   Developmental differences between the sexes
15.   Lanugo
16.   Quickening; when?
17.   Lightening
18.   Terotogen
19.   What senses are functioning during prenatal period
20.   Prenatal development alcohol, medical drugs,  AIDS, teenager,  Rh factor
21.   Uses for ultrasound, amniocentesis, CVS
22.   Fetal welfare vs mothers’ rights- unborn victims of violence act
23.   Cephalocaudal, proximodistal principles
Chapter 5- Birth and the Newborn Baby
1.      What happens in 1st, 2nd, 3rd stages of childbirth
2.      Presentations of the baby (vertex, transverse, frank, footling)
3.      Parturition
4.      Electronic fetal monitoring; pros and cons
5.      Reasons for c-section
6.      Prepared childbirth, natural childbirth
7.      Dick-Reed; Lamaze
8.      Midwife, doula
9.      VBAC
10.   Pros and cons of using anesthesia in childbirth- walking epidural
11.   Neonatal period
12.   Degrees of postpartum illness
13.   Anoxia
14.   Purpose of fontanels
15.   Apgar score and characteristics
16.   Small for date, premature, low birthweight baby
17.   Types of care for premature babies to gain weight faster
18.   Dr. Al’s study
19.   Kauai study
20.   Imprinting
21.   Mother-infant bond
22.   State of arousal
23.   Patterns of newborns
24.   Colic baby
25.   Average cost of delivery (regular) without insurance
Chapter 6- Physical Development During the First Three Years
1.      Height, weight, sleep patterns of infants
2.      Describe 1 yr vs 3 yr old- physical looks
3.      What are the patterns of physical development
4.      Baby’s head/brain size and characteristics
5.      American Academy of Pediatrics suggestion for infant nutrition
6.      Advantages of breast feeding
7.      Define central nervous system, plasticity, reflexes
8.      Moro, rooting, Darwinian reflexes
9.      What does the text say about infants and pain? Touch? Smell? Taste? Hearing? Vision?
10.   Motor characteristics (fine and gross) of a 4 month old? 12 month old
11.   Denver Developmental Screening Test
12.   Purpose of visual cliff? Findings?
13.   Development of pincer grasp
14.   The role of culture in motor development
15.   Top causes of infant mortality
16.   Impact of infant walkers
17.   Causes of SIDS
18.   Immunizations

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Language Objectives

Quiz- Monday

p. 189-198


Ch. 7 pgs 189-194
1.     Define language.
2.     Explain Charles Darwin’s contributions to the study of language development.
3.     Define prelinguistic speech.
4.     Explain the progression of prelinguistic speech: crying, cooing, babbling. Include ages.
5.     Define phoneme
6.     When can infants perceive sounds in all languages? In their native language?
7.     When do babies lose their sensitivity to sounds that are not part of their native language?
9.     Explain the sequence of gestures used by babies. Distinguish between conventional social, representational, and symbolic gestures.
10. How are gestures linked to vocabulary development and multi-word sentences?
11. Define linguistic speech. When does it begin?
12. Define holophrase.
13. What is the difference between passive and active (spoken) vocabulary?
14. What part of speech is an English-speaking child's first word?
15. Define telegraphic speech. When does it occur?
16. When does a naming explosion take place? What is it?
17. Define syntax. When are children more competent of sentence structure?
18.  Define underextension. Provide an example.
19. Define overextension. Provide an example.
20. Define overregularization. Provide an example.

Ch. 7 pgs 194-199
1.     Explain aspects of Noam Chomsky’s nativism approach to language development. Include the role of the LAD. Criticisms?
2.     Explain aspects of B.F Skinner’s social learning theory. Criticisms.
3.     Explain the role of the brain’s hemispheres regarding language development.
4.     (Skip “Social Interactions” and “Prelinguistic Period” sections on pg 196)
5.     Identify influences on a child's vocabulary development.  Include bilingualism- code mixing and code switcing
6.     Define child-directed speech.  How is it both helpful and “hurtful”?
7.     Identify several benefits of reading aloud to children.