Infants
True or False: Holding, touching, talking and playing are considered forms of spoiling an infant?
False
Children aged 1 to 2 years old are called this.
What is a toddler?
True or False: Young toddlers like to play alone. This is called parallel play.
False
This doctor specializes in the medical care of children.
What is a pediatrician?
Limits to a person's body or it's functions.
What is a physical disability?
What muscles do babies first learn to actively control?
What is they first learn to actively control their heads and face?
These are movements that involve smaller muscles, such as fingers and wrists.
What are fine motor skills?
True or false: With a larger vocabulary, preschoolers begin to speak in complete sentences. Their grammar will be like those whom they spend time with.
True or False: Preschooler begin to speak in complete sentences and their grammar reflects that of people around them.
True
At this age babies are able to digest solid food.
What is 4 to 6 months old?
Limits in the way a person's brain functions. Usually a slower rate of learning.
What is a cognitive or intellectual disability?
This is the age when a child may start crawling.
What is 7 months?
Children learn that objects and people still exist even when they can not be seen.
What is object permanence?
Between ____ and ____ years of age, children need to learn how to be friends and how to have friends.
3 and 5
Newborns need lots of sleep. How many hours a day to newborns sleep?
18 t0 20 hours a day
A limitation in the way a person's brain sorts and uses certain types of information. Eg. Dyslexia
What is a learning disability?
Language development is a sign of intellectual growth. By this age an infant will respond to their own name.
What is 5 months old?
Toddlers have rapid increase in language skills. They understand more words than they can say. How many words does the average toddler use?
Between 4+ to 500 words.
According to Jean Piaget what theory of development are preschoolers in?
Sometimes a seemingly healthy infant will die while sleeping. This is the name given this condition.
What is SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
Affected emotional or social functions - marked by extremes of behavior. Need to be diagnosed by a professional.
What is a behavior disorder?
Infants this age tend to demonstrate fear of strangers and may seek the comfort of parents when around strangers
What is 8 months old?
Temper tantrums may be prevented by by allowing toddlers to make some decisions. What is another way to minimize tantrums?
What is warning them that an activity must soon end so that they can be prepared?
What is the definition of mirroring?
Reflecting the feelings expressed by another by restating back what you perceived that person to say and feel.
Newborns need to have their diaper changed often. This is how often you should change their diaper.
10 times a day.
A child who shows outstanding ability or intelligence.
What is gifted or talented?