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Chapter 1 Learning..
Learning About Children Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Typical Behaviors | Ways of acting or responding that are common at each stage of childhood |
| Caregivers | Parents and others who tend to children. |
| Stimulations | Activities that arouse a baby's sense of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. |
| Sequence | An order of steps. |
| Heredity | The biological transfer of certain characteristics from earlier generations. |
| Environment | People, places, and things that surround and influence a person, including family, home, school, and community. |
| Human Life Cycle | This continues through life- from birth to death. |
| Developmental Tasks | Different challenges that must be met or skills to be acquired based on the human life cycle. |
| Self-esteem or self-worth | This refers to the value people place on themselves. |
| Subjective | Type of observation relying on personal opinions and feelings, rather than facts. |
| Objective | Observations based on facts, and leaves aside personal feelings and prejudices. |
| Running record | Writing down everything observed for at least 15 minutes. |
| Anecdotal record | Record used by the observer concentrating on a specific area of development. The time is not limited |
| Frequency count | This record is a tally of how often a certain behavior occurs. This record is useful when trying to change an unwanted behavior. |
| Baseline | A count mad before any steps are taken to try to change the behavior. |
| Developmental checklist | A list of skills children should master, or behaviors they should exhibit at a certain age. |
| Interpretation | Analyzing an observation is called______. |
| Confidentiality | Protecting the child's and family's privacy. |