PSY 2114 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Protective Factor, Social Skills, Night Terror

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

Document Summary

Body grows more in proporion than when a toddler. Eaing becomes picky: natural safety mechanism to avoid harmful food. 11-13 hours of sleep: nightmares are vivid, occur near morning, and wake the dreamer, night terrors are due to waking too rapidly from deep sleep and ending up in panic. No remembered in the morning: sleep walking occurs in deep sleep, bed weing not uncommon. Gross and fine motor skills: greater coordinaion to allow complex movements like dressing/undressing, drawing running and hopping on one foot possible for 5-6 year olds handedness maybe a result of let side dominance: lateralizaion in the brain. Piaget"s cogniive development: preoperaional thinking: development of symbolic representaion: scale model task only completed by 3yo, shrinking room completed by 2yo. Limits in child thinking: egocentrism: struggle seeing the world from someone else"s point of view. Children do beter when they are more familiar with territory though.