Exam 4: Social Development in Infancy and Childhood

Learning theory provides a framework for understanding how behavior develops.

Inadequate supervision is considered psychological abuse.

According to Garvey,one of the qualities of play is that it is done by choice.

Child maltreatment refers only to abuse.

Family functions include child care and child socialization,income support,and long-term care.

According to Parten,the third level of children's social play is:

Infants are treated differently by virtue of their gender from the moment they are born.

Entropy is the process of a system moving toward growth and development.

Stepfamilies are families in which one or both parents reside with children from prior marriages or unions.

What is your plan to provide adequate day care? Explain how you would accomplish this feat,including how you would pay for it.

Social reinforcers include:

Operant conditioning involves the emission of behavior in response to a specific stimulus.

Identify the major concepts involved in systems theory and discuss how each of these concepts might be applied to the dynamics of family systems.

What do you consider appropriate parental discipline? Do you feel parents have the right to spank their children?

Children are in greater danger of sexual abuse from strangers than from people who are close to them.

A major advantage of conceptualizing behavior in terms of learning theory is the emphasis on:

Negative reinforcement:

Objects that symbolize various units of value desirable to an individual that can be exchanged for something that person wants are called tokens.

_____ refers to the fact that there are many different means to the same end.

When using time-outs in child-behavior management,the child should be told which specific behaviors will result in a time-out.