Early Childhood Overview
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Course: | Lifespan Growth & Development (PSYC2314) DUAL CREDIT |
Book: | Early Childhood Overview |
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Date: | Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 3:38 AM |
Description
Early Childhood
By the end of this topic, students will visit centers (much like you may have in preschool) and explore content about early childhood.
During this topic, we will explore early childhood, also known as the preschool years. This time period is characterized by tremendous socioemotional, physical, and cognitive development.
- Read Chapter 4: Early Childhood and Take notes
- Review the resources section of Moodle and answer the related questions in your notebook while viewing
- Complete the Office Hour activity on Flipgrid
- Complete the Topic Quiz
Weekly Learning Aims
- Summarize the overall physical growth
- Describe the changes in brain maturation
- Describe the changes in sleep
- Summarize the changes in gross and motor skills
- Describe when a child is ready for toilet training
- Describe sexual development
- Identify nutritional concerns
- Describe Piaget’s preoperational stage and the characteristics of preoperational thought
- Summarize the challenges to Piaget’s theory
- Describe Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development
- Describe Information processing research on attention and memory
- Describe the views of the neo-Piagetians
- Describe theory-theory and the development of theory of mind
- Describe the developmental changes in language
- Describe the various types of early childhood education
- Describe the characteristics of autism
- Describe Erikson’s third stage of initiative vs. guilt
- Describe the changes in self-concept and self-esteem
- Describe children’s understanding of others
- Describe emotional regulation and delayed gratification
- Describe young children’s understanding of morality
- Summarize the main theories of gender development
- Explain the terms transgender, gender dysphoria, and intersex
- Describe the major parenting styles and their consequences for children
- Describe the role of siblings in children’s development
- Summarize the types of play in which children engage
- Describe the influence of the media on young children’s social development