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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Here are the terms and concepts for the last two chapters.

In addition to these terms, the sheet I will give you to have out during the exam will include these terms/concepts from previous exams.

parallel play, associative play, cooperative play
Erikson's Initiative versus Guilt
self concept in early childhood
Functional play, constructive play, make-believe play
Induction
Authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved parenting styles
Gender typing
Gender constancy
Secular trends in physical growth
Asthma, including who is more at risk
Rough-and-tumble play
Dominance hierarchy
Fast mapping
Episodic memories
Scripts
Conservation
Overregularization
Child-centered preschools
Academic preschools
sensory preferences in the newborn
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and current recommendations for reducing its likelihood
classical conditioning in infants (UCS, UCR, CS, CR)
operant conditioning
deferred imitation
object permanence
habituation
cooing, babbling,
word overextension and underextension
temperament: easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up children
social referencing
self-control and compliance
gross and fine motor development
nightmares, sleep terrors and transitional objects
grasping--pincer and ulnar grasp
physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development
Freud's psychosexual theory (id, ego, and superego)
behaviorism:classical and operant conditioning
microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem
independent and dependent variables (be able to identify them in anexperiment)
longitudinal design
cross-sectional design
fertilization
donor insemination
in vitro fertilization
alcohol, smoking-their effect on fetal and child development
first, second, and third stage of labor
Cesarean delivery
Natural, or prepared, childbirth
Reflexes: rooting, Moro, palmar grasp, stepping