Early Childhood Resource "Centers"

Center 1: Introduction to Early Childhood

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• What age range is considered early childhood?
• What is infantile amnesia?
• What physical skills are present in early childhood?
• What is the cognitive stage developmental stage according to Piaget?
• What is conservation?
• What is centration?
• What is reversibility?
• What is egocentrism?
• What is the “sensitive period” of language?
• What are pragmatics?
• What is gender constancy?
• What are gender roles?
• What are gender schemas?
• How do siblings effect social development?

Center 2: Healthy Eating

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• What is healthy eating?
• How can parents and caregivers influence childhood eating?
• Describe the study performed by Bussick.  What type of study was done, experimental or correlational?

Center 3: The Growing Child

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• How does the rate of growth change in early childhood?
• What is laterlization?
• What gross motor skills develop in early childhood?
• What fine motor skills develop in early childhood?

Center 4: Conservation Tasks

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• What is the principle of conservation?
• Describe the age and response of each participant in the clay task. How were the seven year olds responses different from the younger children?
• Describe the age and response of each participant in the coin task. How were the seven year olds responses different from the younger children?
• Describe the age and response of each participant in the liquid task. How were the seven year olds responses different from the younger children?

Center 5: Egocentrism

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• What was the difference in the observations of the younger boy and the older boy?
• Which child was able to take the perspective of the adult when sitting across the table?  Why?

Center 6: Play Styles

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https://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/hss/SSA_SHARED_MEDIA_1/psychology/videos/Ob_Psych/Play_Styles.html

While watching the video respond to the following in your notebook. 

• Describe each of the following play styles
• Parallel play
• Associative play
• Onlooker play
• Cooperative play
• How do play styles change throughout early childhood?

Center 7: The Bobo Doll

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Center 8: Learning Aggression

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http://visual.pearsoncmg.com/mypsychlab/index.html?clip=6&tab=tab0&episode=episode07

Respond to the following questions in your notebook while watching the video:

• What role does the media play in learning aggression?
• What is desensitization?
• What is the strange double standard described by the researcher?

Center 9: Flint Children

Please watch the video.  While watching respond to the following questions in your notebook.

• What are some of the effects of lead poisoning?
• How long are the children being followed for this study?  Why?

Center 10: The Growth of Knowledge