1. Explain the various reactions to the arrival of a baby sibling. What factors should be considered?
2. How does attachment affect sibling relationships?
3. At what age does sibling conflict increase the most?
4. Explain the progression of sociability through the first 3 years.
5. Summarize how maternal employment affects children.
6. How do temperament and gender affect early child care?
7. What is the most important element in the quality of child care?
8. Summarize the findings from NCIHD study. (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
Monday, February 10, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Ch. 8- Gender Typing
In the article, Care Bears vs. Transformers, Dr.
Monica Brasted claims that the media and advertising have a profound
influence on gender stereotyping. Read the article and answer the
following questions to the blog. Put the answers in your OWN words. Do
not plagiarize or copy and paste.1. How are boys and girls portrayed in advertisements?
2. Specifically, what kind of commercials are young girls in?
3. What kind of commercials are young boys in?
4. What does the author state about gender roles and the play castle advertisement.
5. How does Bandura's social learning theory relate to gender roles and the media?
6. Cite your own example about a certain toy or television ad that portrays gender stereotyping. (If you can't think of one, look it up on the internet)
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 :)
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?
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
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