When students have studied the material in the
chapter, they will be able to answer the following: - Introduction
- What are the major social achievements of early childhood?
- How are social, emotional and cognitive development interrelated in the preschool years?
- What can preschool and day care teachers do to foster healthy social and emotional development in early childhood?
- Some hallmarks of early childhood social and emotional development
- How do children's social worlds expand in the preschool years?
- Explain the increases in self-reliance, self-control, and self-management that occur in early childhood.
- The developing self
- Summarize the development of preschoolers' sense of self and explain how cognitive development is involved in this process.
- Explain what is involved in children's development of a gender-based self-concept.
- Social development: the world of peers
- How do children's peer relationships change during the preschool years?
- Emotional development
- What major emotional developments occur during the preschool years?
- Explain how preschoolers' cognitive and emotional development are related.
- The role of play in preschool development
- What function does play serve for preschoolers?
- The parents' role in early childhood development
- How do parents' roles and tasks change during early childhood?
- The coherence of behavior and development
- Discuss how coherence in behavior and development increases during early childhood.
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