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Human Growth & Development: Schooling, Work, & Interventions

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* there is a good ratio of children to supervising adults (as determined by state law).
* there are plenty of interaction times of children with children, and children with adults.
* there are age-appropriate activities that stimulate body and mind.
Day care is considered "high quality" if:
cooperation, confidence, perspective-taking/
vocabulary
score higher on tests of intelligence
Research shows that day care can boost children's social skills in areas of ______________________________________, ______________________________________, and ___________________________________________.
These children also have a boost in ______________________________.
They also __________________________________________________________ than children who do not attend day care, but the non-day-care children usually catch up once they enter kindergarten and elementary school.
aggressive tendencies/ non-compliant
Conversely, day care can also boost children's _______________________________________________________________.
They may be more ___________________________________, i.e., less likely to carry out an adult's request. Some have suggested that this is because day-care children have learned to think for themselves, not that is is a symptom of maladjustment.
insecurely attached
There is a slight tendency for day-care children to be classified as ________________________________________________________.
* social and emotional skills
* language and pre-literacy skills
* quantitative and pre-math skills
* motor skills and physical dexterity skills
* self-help skills
Preschool curricular areas include:
achievement motivation/ negative feelings
Children from preschool programs may experience a temporary advantage in achievement when they start kindergarten, but they do not maintain these gains over children who did not attend preschool.
-They can actually have lower __________________________________________ and have more __________________________________________ about school.
play, academics/ impoverished
The best preschool programs balance ________________ and __________________________.
Preschool programs are particularly beneficial to children from _________________________________________ backgrounds.
Martin Seligman and Carol Dweck
Two achievement orientations have been identified from research in child development by _________________________________________ and _______________________________.
mastery orientation
attributing successes to one's own ability and effort - an internal locus of control attribution style.
learned helplessness orientation
causes children to avoid challenges because of the perception that no matter what they do, they likely will not succeed - an external locus of control attribution style.
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