Uconn HDFS 2100 Exam 1 2025/2026
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Child Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔area of study devoted to understanding
constancy and change from conception to adulthood
3 Domains of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Physical
2. Cognition
3. Emotional/Social
6 Periods of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Prenatal
2.Infancy to toddlerhood (0-2)
3. Early childhood (2-6)
4. Middle Childhood (6-11)
5. Adolescence (11-18)
6. Emerging Adulthood (18-25)
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,Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔orderly, integrated ideas based on scientific verification
that describes, explains, and predicts behavior
Continuous - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔infants respond to world in the same way adults do.
Gradually adding more of the same types of skills - walking up a hill
Discontinuous - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔children's through, behaviors, emotions
considerably different than those of adults. There are new ways of understanding
the world. This concept has stages. Change is sudden, not gradual - going up steps
Theory: One course or Many? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Some theorists believe that all
children grow up the same, have the same timeline,follow the same sequence.
Other theories believe there are unique combinations and grow up in different
contexts due to different environmental and personal circumstances
context - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the unique combination of personal, and environmental
circumstances that can result in a different path of change - death, birth, going to
school or even illness can make a huge impact f
Nature and Nurture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Genetic and Environmental
All theories bring in both perspectives but vary in emphasis of each
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,medieval era and earlier views of childhood - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Childhood (to age 7
or 8) regarded as separate phase with special needs
16th century views of childhood - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔puritan "child depravity" views
- children need to be tamed
17th century view of childhood - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔John Locke "tabula rasa" or
"blank slate" view
18th century view of childhood - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Jean Jacques Rousseau "noble
savages" view
Stability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Early experience might have a life long impact
individuals with high or low characteristics
Plasticity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔change is possible, based on experiences.
Resilient children
critical period - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a limited time during which the child is
biologically prepared to acquire certain adaptive behaviors but needs the support of
an appropriately stimulating environment
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, sensitive period - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔optimal time for certain capacities to emerge;
especially responsive to environment; boundaries are less defined; brain first 2 year
- exerience-expectant and dependent growth
experience dependent development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔what i see and feel - these
will form the band of my expected experience
experience dependent development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔all of the experiences im
getting are dependent
Erikson's Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Expanded development to stages.
Also brought in the cultural aspect to shape development.
Piaget: Cognitive Developmental Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Children actively
construct knowledge as they manipulate and explore the world.
Adaptation; sensorimotor (0-2), preoperational (2-7), concrete operational (7-11),
formal operational (11 and up)
amniocentisis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A technique of prenatal diagnosis in which
amniotic fluid, obtained by aspiration from a needle inserted into the uterus, is
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Exam Questions and Answers | 100%
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Child Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔area of study devoted to understanding
constancy and change from conception to adulthood
3 Domains of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Physical
2. Cognition
3. Emotional/Social
6 Periods of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Prenatal
2.Infancy to toddlerhood (0-2)
3. Early childhood (2-6)
4. Middle Childhood (6-11)
5. Adolescence (11-18)
6. Emerging Adulthood (18-25)
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔orderly, integrated ideas based on scientific verification
that describes, explains, and predicts behavior
Continuous - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔infants respond to world in the same way adults do.
Gradually adding more of the same types of skills - walking up a hill
Discontinuous - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔children's through, behaviors, emotions
considerably different than those of adults. There are new ways of understanding
the world. This concept has stages. Change is sudden, not gradual - going up steps
Theory: One course or Many? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Some theorists believe that all
children grow up the same, have the same timeline,follow the same sequence.
Other theories believe there are unique combinations and grow up in different
contexts due to different environmental and personal circumstances
context - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the unique combination of personal, and environmental
circumstances that can result in a different path of change - death, birth, going to
school or even illness can make a huge impact f
Nature and Nurture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Genetic and Environmental
All theories bring in both perspectives but vary in emphasis of each
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,medieval era and earlier views of childhood - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Childhood (to age 7
or 8) regarded as separate phase with special needs
16th century views of childhood - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔puritan "child depravity" views
- children need to be tamed
17th century view of childhood - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔John Locke "tabula rasa" or
"blank slate" view
18th century view of childhood - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Jean Jacques Rousseau "noble
savages" view
Stability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Early experience might have a life long impact
individuals with high or low characteristics
Plasticity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔change is possible, based on experiences.
Resilient children
critical period - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a limited time during which the child is
biologically prepared to acquire certain adaptive behaviors but needs the support of
an appropriately stimulating environment
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, sensitive period - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔optimal time for certain capacities to emerge;
especially responsive to environment; boundaries are less defined; brain first 2 year
- exerience-expectant and dependent growth
experience dependent development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔what i see and feel - these
will form the band of my expected experience
experience dependent development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔all of the experiences im
getting are dependent
Erikson's Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Expanded development to stages.
Also brought in the cultural aspect to shape development.
Piaget: Cognitive Developmental Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Children actively
construct knowledge as they manipulate and explore the world.
Adaptation; sensorimotor (0-2), preoperational (2-7), concrete operational (7-11),
formal operational (11 and up)
amniocentisis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A technique of prenatal diagnosis in which
amniotic fluid, obtained by aspiration from a needle inserted into the uterus, is
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
