Unit 1 Test * Outline
 Short Answer (Paragraphs)
[18 marks]
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 True and False
[15 marks]
 Matching
[9 marks]
 Multiple Choice
[18 marks]
Topics Covered
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Child Development
 Characteristics
 Types
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Children Then and Now
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Attachment and Bonding
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Stranger Anxiety
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Koko’s Kitten Storyline
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Attachment Cycles
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Healthy
Unhealthy
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Attachment
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Harry Harlow
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Failure to Thrive
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John Bowlby
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Secure Parent-Child Attachment
Importance
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Nature-Nurture
Mary Ainsworth
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Strange Situation
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Types of reactions (secure and
insecure)
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Twin studies
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Genie “Wild Child”
 The Secret Life of the Brain
“Wider than the Sky” Questions
 Developmental Theorists
Children Then and Now
(Handout and Textbook Work)
1. Compare children in terms of work, play,
education, health, dress and parental influence
today with children who existed in the early
1900s
Human Development
1. Define the term Development.
2. What are the 5 characteristics of development?
3. Be able to identify the characteristics as they
apply to scenarios presented.
4. List and define the types of development
5. Provide an example for each of the types of
development.
Attachment and bonding
1. Define attachment. Who is typically the primary
caregiver for children?
2. Define Failure to Thrive.
3. Why is it important for children and parents to
have secure attachment?
Mary Ainsworth
1. Who is Mary Ainsworth and what did she study?
2. What was the name of her famous experiment?
What did it involve? What were the findings?
3. Describe the different types of attachment (secure,
avoidant, resistant, disoriented). Which one is best?
4. What is stranger anxiety? What age does it typically
occur?
5. Name some strategies you could use to help children
with stranger anxiety?
Koko’s Kitten
1. Briefly outline the story of Koko’s kitten.
2. What is the moral of the story with respect to
HPW?
Attachment Cycles
1. Why do some children have attachment
disorders?
2. Outline the healthy attachment cycle. What does
a baby learn through heathy attachment?
3. Outline the unhealthy attachment cycle. What
does a baby learn through unhealthy attachment?
Harry Harlow
1. Who is Harry Harlow? What did he use in his
experiments? What did he study?
2. Which two options were subjects given during
Harlow’s experiments? Which one did they
prefer most?
3. What do Harlow’s studies show us relating to
infant development?
John Bowlby
1. Who is John Bowlby and what was his major field
of study?
2. Describe the premise and findings of his study.
What is a feedback circuit?
3. What are the three stages of separation
behaviour? Describe them.
4. How can you encourage parents to lessen the
anxieties of their children’s fears of separation?
Nature-Nurture
• What is the difference between nature and
nurture?
• What is one way that nature and nurture
have been studied by psychologists?
• How do twin studies contribute to the
debate of nature-nurture. Which theory do
they support? Explain.
• Who is Genie? Why did they call her a “wild
child”? Which side of the nature-nurture
debate does her story support? Explain.
The Secret Life of the Brain
• Explain Elizabeth’s situation at the start
of the video.
• Explain Elizabeth’s development by the
end of the video.
• When does the brain begin forming?
• What are some of the long term effects of
being born premature?
• Explain Holly’s condition and
development.
Early Childhood Development
Theorists
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Erik Erikson
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Thomas and Chess
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Sigmund Freud
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Albert Bandura
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Lawrence Kohlberg
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Jean Piaget
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Lev Vygotsky
*What aspect of child development did they study?
*What did they discover? (ie. What popular theory did they
develop)
*How does their theory relate to Living and Working with
Children?