Definitions
Physical Development
Cognitive Development
Evaluation
100
A child between the ages of one and three.
What is a toddler?
100

toddlers often learn to walk

What is between one year and 18 months?

100

Focus on moving objects, including the faces of caregivers, detect differences in pitch and volume

What are cognitive milestones of first 3 months
100
Developmental screening tool filled out by parents, utilized in primary care. 
What is Ages and Stages?
200
fear that when parents leave, they will not return
What is separation anxiety?
200

Ride a tricycle, go down a slide without help, throw and catch a ball

What are 3 year physical milestones
200

information processing, intelligence , reasoning, language development , and memory

What are areas of cognitive development
200

A tool that measures adaptive behaviors, including the ability to cope with environmental changes, to learn new everyday skills and to demonstrate independence.

What is the Vineland Adaptive Behaviors scale?
300

inability to differentiate between self and other

What is egocentrism?
300

Roll over, pull their bodies forward, pull themselves up by grasping the edge of the crib

What are examples of a 3-6 month old's physical development tasks?
300

A period when the child knows the world through their movements and sensations (basic actions such as sucking, grasping, looking, and listening)

What is the sensorimotor stage of Piaget's cognitive development
300

A standard series of measurements used to assess the development of infants and toddlers, ages 1–42 months, consisting of a series of developmental play tasks and takes between 45 – 60 minutes to administer.

The Bayley Scales of Infant Development, deriving a developmental quotient (DQ) rather than an intelligence quotient (IQ)?

400
Type of play in which toddlers play in same room, but not with one another.
What is solitary play?
400

abilty to pinch small objects using the tip of the index finger and the thumb, develops between 9-12 months

What is a pincer grasp
400

Typically appearing between 12-18 months, the 5th substage of the sensorimotor stage, during which children begin a period of trial-and-error experimentation.

What are tertiary circular reactions?

400

Drawing on empirical research and clinical practice this manual is a developmentally based system for diagnosing mental health and developmental disorders in infants and toddlers.

What is DC: 0-3R The Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood?

500

understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed

What is object permanence?
500

coordination of small muscles, in movements—usually involving the synchronization of hands and fingers—with the eyes

what are fine motor skills
500

Object conservation, increasing use of symbols and role-play are hallmarks of this period

What is the preoperational stage?
500

A scientifically validated tool, recommended by the AAP, for screening children between 16 and 30 months of age that assesses risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

What is the M-CHAT, which is designed to be administered by parents/guardians and interpreted by pediatric providers in the context of developmental surveillance?

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