Physical Development & More
Physical or behavioral signs of development of infants and children.
What is a Developmental Milestone?
The outcome of the process of organizing information that comes from the senses
What is Perception?
The act or process of knowing or understanding.
What is Cognition?
The general mood of a person.
What is Disposition?
Knowledge that an object stays the same from one time to the next.
What is Object Identity?
The hardening of bones as a child develops physically.
What is Ossification?
The words a person understands but does not speak or write.
What is Passive Vocabulary?
The first stage in Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory.
What is the Sensorimotor Stage?
The inherited tendency to react in a certain way.
What is Temperament?
When infants tend to be sociable and bold, easily try new things, are regular in their habits and create low anxiety in parents, they are considered this.
What is Low Reactive?
The term for when a child fails to grow at a healthy rate.
What is Failure to Thrive?
The words used in speaking and writing.
What is Active Vocabulary?
Varying levels of instructional support given to help children learn a new concept/skill.
What is Scaffolding?
When infants react to anything new with caution, easily become physically agitated/distressed, are irregular in their habits and consequently increase a parent's anxiety.
What is High Reactive?
Knowing that objects remain the same even if they appear different.
What is Object Constancy?
Using the movements of the body to explore and learn.
What are Motor Activities?
Developing motor skills, understanding how objects work, seeking relationships for nurture, protection and love, and learning ways to interact with others are all part of this.
What is the Baby Agenda?
According to Vygotsky, the distance between the most complicated thing a child can do alone and the most complicated thing a child can do with support.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
The term used to describe when the child's temperament matches the parents ideal.
What is Goodness of Fit?
Knowledge that an object exists even when it cannot be seen.
What is Object Permanence?
What is Stranger Anxiety?
The unconscious awareness of past experiences to perform tasks.
What is Implicit Memory?
In Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage, from birth to 2 years, the infant learns from both _________ and __________.
What are Senses and Exploration (motor)?
The infant's understanding of him/herself as a unique person.
What is Self-Awareness?
Understanding the concept of quantity.
What is Number Sense?