Children and their development. Development in a change that is systematic, organized, and successive in character. An example of this in the book is that, a young girl is grumpy because her cereal is not sweet. To fix this her dad adds in some fruit to and the young girl is now happy. For change to be developmental, it must be systematic, organized, and it must have a succesive character. Example of that would be that usually young children walk holding hands of another. By the time they enter school they are walking, running, and skipping, etc. on their own. A Child’s Journey in the 21st Century. Some changer within a child’s development in the 21st century would be the use of technology. It states here that children nowadays …show more content…
I believe that the learning theories by Pavlov, Watson, Skinner, and Bandura has the greater value for understanding children’s learning. This theory focuses on how experiences affect learning and behavior. Nurture drives this development and this development in also continuous. We were classically conditioned throughout our lives. For example, when you smell food you know that food is ready to eat. Asking Questions, Examining Answers. The main difference between experimental study from the others (descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, microgenetic). In experimental study, the participants were randomly selected rather than being picked out. Cultural Perspectives. Children with disabilities are born in all cultures. Some families look at cultures differently reather than just parenting a child with some challenges. For example, the Hmong culture from Cambodia, believes that seizures is an “illness of some distinction.” They believed that seizures might allow her to see into the spiritual …show more content…
Chromosomal abnormalities affect more of a physical appearance as down syndrome, or fragile X syndrome. Sex-linked disorders are more due to inherited disorders such as Marfan Syndrome and Sickle Cell Disease. Gene-Enviornment Interactions. I favor the Genotype-Enviornment Correlations because this believes that not only does the enviornment influence the child, but the child influences the enviornment as well. Not like Canalization where it states that heredity plaes a greater role in enviornment. The Physiology of Thinking and Feeling. The two basic components of the nervous system are the central nervous system (spinal cord and brain)and the peripheral nervous system. The limbic system is a set of individual structure that forms a network of connections that is referred to the seat of emotions. The hippocampus is important for memory and learning. Children’s Well-Being in Society. Child development is predicted on good health, good health is acheived through good nutrition, exercise, clean air and water, education, and health