Unit: 3 Early Childhood

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  • Sleep disturbances
    • Associated with anxiety, nasal abnormalities, heritable, and
  • Night terror abrupt awakening from deep sleep in a state of agitation
  • Sleep talking talking while asleep
  • Nightmare , a bad dream sometimes brought on by staying up late, eat heavy meals close to bed time and
    ,over excitement
  • Enuresis - repeated urination
  • By age of 6 the brain attained about 90% of its peak
  • Childs grows rapidly at ages 3 to 6 they lose their babyish roundness and take on slender athletic appearance of childhood
  • In early childhood, pre operational of piagetian  approach is introduced
  • Corpus callosum is a thick band of fibers that connects both hemispheres of the brain to communicate more effectively
  • Physical skills involves large muscles is gross motor while small muscles and eye hand coordination is fine motor skill
  • Systems of action is increasingly complex combinations of motor skills
  • Poor motir coodination is associated with risk of obesity or overweight in children
  • Preference for using one hand over the other is handedness
  • At this stage of piagetian approach, children is not yet ready to engage in logical mental operations but expands symbolic is called PRE OPERATIONAL
  • Use of symbols, understanding of identities, understanding of cause and effect, ability to classify, understanding of number, empathy, theory of mind is the cognitive  advances of early childhood clue: US, UI, UCE, AC, UN, E,TM
  • CIFTEAI is the immature aspects of pre operational thought
  • Piaget's term for ability to use mental representations is what we called symbolic function
  • Also called as imaginative, fantasy, dramatic play is called pretend play
  • Transduction is  Piaget's term for mentally link particular phenomena whether or not there is causal relationship
  • Decenter is thinking simultaneously about several aspects of situation
  • Inability to consider others pov is egocentrism
  • Conservation is the awareness that two objects are equal
  • Children's understanding that operations can go in two or more directions is irreversibility
  • Putting info into filed memory is encoding
  • Storage is the retention of info in memory for future use
  • Information is accessed or recalled from memory storage is retrieval
  • Initial, temporary storage of sensory information is sensory memory
  • Short term memory or also called as working memory is the short term storage of info being actively processed
  • Long-term memory is the permanent storage of info with unlimited capacity that can hold info for long
  • Recognition and recall is the two types of retrieval
  • Element of working memory taht controls process of info is called central executive
  • Metacognition is the awareness of ones own mental processes
  • Executive function is the conscious control of thought emotions and actions to accomplish goals or solve problems
  • Generic memory is memory that produces scripts of familiar routine taht guides behavior
  • Script is the remembered outline of familiar, repeated event
  • Long term memory of specific experiences or events related to time and place is episodic memory
  • If episodic occur many times it is transferred into generic memory
  • Memory of specific events in ones life or one that has special  meaning to a child is autobiographical memory
  • Standford binet intelligence scale is used for ages 2 and up and take 45-60 minutes to finish used to measure fluid reasoning, knowledge,working memory etc
  • Wechsler pre  school and primary scale of intelligence revised is used for ages 2 to 4 and 4 to 7 that takes 30 to 60 minutes to finish measures verbal non verbal, vocabulary etc