Key Terms A - L
Key Terms M - P
Key Terms R - S
Key Terms S - T
Key T - Z
100
An enduring affectionate bond between a child and another person.
What is Attachment?
100

Level 1 - Food: Needs that are essential for the body to have access to food, water, air, sexual gratification, warmth, etc.

Level 2 - Safety: Needs that relate to physical safety to avoid external dangers or anything that might harm the individual.

Level 3 - 4 (Love, Esteem & Self-Actualization)

What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
100
A guidance strategy for changing children's unacceptable or disruptive behavior.
What is Redirection?
100
The coordination of sensory perception and muscle movement marked as the beginning of thinking. The first stage of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
What is Sensorimotor Stage?
100
To feel confident and secure within a relationship. The 1st stage of Erik Erikson's psychosocial development, which is the focus of the first year of life.
What is Trust?
200
A method used in child care to keep infants and toddlers with the same caregivers(s) over a period of time.
What is Continuity of Care?
200
The building or increasing of the myelin sheath that acts an insulator around the axon with neural fibers allowing for efficient transmission of messages by the brain.
What is Myelinization?
200
A philosophy of thinking regarding having a primary caregiver system, that is consistent and provides a continuity of care for young children
What is Relationship-Based Curriculum?
200
From the research of Mary Ainsworth, involves a series of departures and reunions between mother and infant to measure attachment.
What is Strange Situation?
200
A method by which children are helped before the 3rd year to use the toilet through a kind of conditioning method that depends more on cultural traditions than it does on readiness.
What is Toliet-Training?
300
The name given to undirected but monitored play when children have choice to purse their special interests.
What is Free Play?
300
The right amount of stress that is enough to energize and motivate the child toward activity, including problem solving.
What is Optimum Stress?
300
The ability to overcome adversity within one's development and continue to develop in a functionally adaptive manner.
What is Resiliency?
300
An overall personality style based in genetic origin that develops within a social context.
What is Temperament?
300
Quality time in which the adult is available and responsive to the child but is not directing the interaction, activity or play.
What is Wants-Nothing Quality Time?
400
A written plan for early intervention for children 0-3years of age. Developed by a team including the parents, teachers and other specialists.
What is an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)?
400
Nerve cells that send and receive messages and make up the communication system of the brain.
What is Neurons?
400
A temporary structure of support provided by adults at an appropriate level to help children increase their competence at a given tsk or interaction.
What is Scaffolding?
400
A method by which children learn to use the toilet independently, usually sometime during the 3rd or 4th year of life.
What is Toilet-Learning?
400
Quality time in which the adult and child are involving in a task the caregiver has set up.
What is Wants-Something Quality Time?
500
The ability to move independently; related to large or gross motor skill development.
What is Locomotion?
500
The processing and organizing of information of information that has been taken in through the senses.
What is Perception?
500
Interrupting children who need help to stay safe or interact positively.
What is Selective Intervention?
500
An interaction that is respectful, responsive, and reciprocal.
What is the Three-R Interactions?
500
According to Vygotsky, the gap between a child's current performance and his or her potential performance if helped by a more competent child or adult.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
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