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What are 4 ways you can benefit from studying children? - Answer-You may learn the reasons for the thought process, behavior, and emotions that children experience. You may learn new skills and better understand the importance of caregivers, learn to enjoy children more, and learn about child-relat...

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What are 4 ways you can benefit from studying children? - Answer-You may learn the
reasons for the thought process, behavior, and emotions that children experience. You
may learn new skills and better understand the importance of caregivers, learn to enjoy
children more, and learn about child-related careers, one of which could interest you.

What are typical behaviors? How can knowing about them help you better understand
children's behavior? - Answer-They are ways of acting or responding that are common
at each state of childhood. By knowing typical behaviors, you will understand the reason
for children's behavior. You will also be able to tell if their behavior is normal.

What are four things that caregivers provide to children, in addition to food and clothes?
- Answer-They provide affection, learning, social skills (getting along with others), and
morality (difference between right and wrong).

How are the lives of children today and of children in the 1800's different in the areas of
health, education, and work? Similar? - Answer-Health: Children in the 1800's often died
from disease, but, today, most deadly diseases can be controlled. However, childhood
obesity has increased.
Education: In the 1800's children with different ages and abilities were grouped
together. Now, children are grouped based on age and intelligence.
Work: Children were expected to work at a young age in the 1800's, but, now, children
do chores instead of working.

Why is play important to children? - Answer-Play is how children learn.

How might studying about children affect your views of childhood? - Answer-It may give
you a new perspective on your own childhood or just childhood in general. You may
also understand childhood better and realize that there are several steps.

How developed is a baby's brain at birth? How does it change by age three? - Answer-A
baby's brain is about 1/4th the size of an adult's at birth. It is the least developed of the
organs. By age 3, the brain has produced hundreds of trillions of connections among
brain cells in response to stimulation.

How does stimulation help a baby develop? - Answer-It may improve a baby's curiosity,
attention span, memory, and nervous system development. A baby who is stimulated
may also have a better self-image.

, How does living in a stimulating environment affect neural pathways in the brain as a
child matures? - Answer-By living in a stimulating environment, a child will gain more
connections and use more neural pathways. The more stimulation received, the more
connections are retained.

What were the main findings of Freud? - Answer-Personality develops through stages
and, childhood experiences affect adulthood.

What were the main findings of Piaget? - Answer-Children go through 4 stages of
learning (children must be given learning tasks appropriate for their development level).

What were the findings of Vygotsky? - Answer-Biological development and cultural
experience affect learning. Being social is vital to intellectual development.

What were the findings of Erikson? - Answer-Each personality stage includes a unique
psychological crisis. If the crisis is met positively, the child will develop normally
(Example: trust vs. mistrust or toilet training).

What were the findings of Skinner? - Answer-Actions with a positive result will be
repeated while negative results will make the actions stop.

What were the findings of Bandura? - Answer-Children learn by imitating others.
Pointed out that environment affects behavior while behavior affects environment
(Disagreed with Skinner).

What were the findings of Bronfenbrenner? - Answer-There are layers of environment
that affect a child's development, such as the child's biology, family/community
environment, and society.

What does "development is similar for each individual" mean? - Answer-Children
experience the same stages of development usually in the same order.

What does "development builds on early learning" mean? - Answer-Children will use
earlier skills to learn and institute new skills.

What does "development proceeds at an individual rate" mean? - Answer-Children
develop at different rates; they aren't the same.

What does "the different areas of development are interrelated" mean? - Answer-When
developing, a child usually experiences several changes, whether physically, mentally,
or socially.

What does "development is a lifelong process" mean? - Answer-Development lasts
forever; a child will continue to develop even into adulthood.

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