The values, traditions, and symbol systems of a long-standing social group that give purpose and meaning to children's daily activities and interpersonal relationships.
What is CULTURE?
100
Two or more people who live together and are related by such enduring factors as birth, marriage, adoption, or long term mutual commitment.
What is FAMILY?
100
The basic unit of heredity in a living cell.
What is a GENE?
100
The cell that transmits information to other cells. Also called a nerve cell.
What is a NEURON?
100
An organized group of similar actions for thoughts that are used repeatedly in response to the environment.
What is a SCHEME?
200
The inherited characteristics and tendencies that affect development.
What is NATURE?
200
Cultural group that encourages independence, self-assertion, competition, and expression of personal needs.
What is INDIVIDUALISTIC CULTURE?
200
The growth that takes place between conception and birth.
What is PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT?
200
The junction between two cells.
What is the synapse?
200
The process of responding to a new event in a way that is consistent with an existing scheme.
What is ASSIMILATION?
300
Environmental conditions that affect development.
What is NURTURE?
300
General pattern of behaviors that a parent uses to nurture and discipline his or her children.
What is PARENTING STYLE?
300
During prenatal week 9 until birth, the developing offspring that is growing in size and weight and in sensory abilities, brain structures, and organs needed for survival.
What is the FETUS?
300
The brain has three main sections: The forebrain; the hindbrain; and the_________.
What is the MIDBRAIN?
300
The state of being unable to address new events with existing schemes.
What is DISEQUILIBRIUM?
400
What is the varied ways in which individuals progress called?
What is DIVERSITY?
400
The process of directing and controlling one's personal actions and emotions.
What is SELF-REGULATION?
400
During prenatal weeks 2 through 8, the developing offspring that is in the process of forming major body structures and organs.
What is the EMBRYO?
400
Large movements of the body that permit locomotion through and within the environment.
What are GROSS MOTOR SKILLS?
400
The ability to mentally represent and think about external objects and events.
What is SYMBOLIC THOUGHT?
500
The systematic changes in emotions, self-concept, motivation, social relationships, and moral reasoning and behavior?
What is SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT?
500
Two-parent families, single-parent families, stepfamilies, adoptive fa,mimes, foster families, extended families are some examples of these.
What are FAMILY STRUCTURES?
500
A spiral staircase-shaped molecule that guides the production of proteins needed by the body for growth and development.
What is DNA?
500
Small, precise movements of particular parts of the body, especially the hands.
What are FINE MOTOR SKILLS?
500
The realization that if nothing is added or taken away, an amount stays the same regardless of any alterations inshore or arrangement.