What is pediatric primary care providers main responsibilities? - to monitor children's overall physical,
cognitive, and psychosocial development, and to provide anticipatory guidance to families as children
grow.
What factors affect development? - genetic background, personality, and intrauterine and extrauterine
environmental factors
The pace of growth and development is specific for each child - true
development occurs in a cephalocaudal and proximodistal direction. - true
Define Maturation - sequential developmental changes that occur over time
Cognitive-structural theories - examine the ways in which children think, reason, and use language
What at Piaget four stages of cognitive development? - Sensorimotor stage(0-2years), peroperaration
stage(2-7), concrete operational stage(7-12), and the formal operational stage(13 through adulthood)
What is the concept of intersubjectivity? - it is a mutual understanding to meaning and mutual
engagement in social interactions, underlies attachment theory.
What is behaviorism? - the study of the general laws of human behavior, focuses on the present and
ways that the environment influences human behavior.
What is included in Maslow's hierarchy of needs? - physiologic safety, belongingness and love, esteem,
and self-actualization.
Even the developmental assessment tools withe ht highest standards may not be perceptive for
extremely low-birth-weight infants - true