Vocab1
Behaviors, strategies, and techniques adults use to interact with infants and toddlers.
What is Methods
By this age infants can sit in a high chair, grasp an object intentionally, and bang it purposefully.
What is 6 months
Events that happen on a regular basis and require a series of responses.
What is Routines
The understanding that people and objects exist even if they are currently out of sight.
What is Object Permanence
Pictures in the mind with which children can carry out action sequences internally.
Mental Images
Children of this age are increasing their stability in both fast and slow movements, running, and walking.
What is 24-36 months
Refer to the Order of events during the day and when they will be done
What is Schedules
Over time, the crying, cooing, and babbling are all apart of what development in infants?
What is Language Development
Behavior is the same as self-help skills. The term is used in early childhood special education
What is Adaptive
Children at this age may topple over from stepping on an object, by leaning too far, or walking too fast
What is 12-24 months
Piaget’s belief that each person individually creates new understandings, interpretations, and realities through interactions with materials, equipment, and people in their environment. This is also referred to as cognitive constructivism.
What is individual constructivism
Fear exhibited by older toddlers around 9 months of age toward people who are different or unknown; demonstrates their growing cognitive abilities.
What is Stranger Anxiety
starting at birth with reflexive movements, infants rapidly gain an increasing level of
What is muscular control
Children at this age may turn from stomach to back early while another may reach for objects early and turn over later.
What is Birth- 12 months
The ability of control bodily functions, Manage emotions and maintain attention.
What is Self-regulation
Children’s symbolic representations of objects, feelings, or ideas.
What is Symbolic Play
Are times between events.
What is Transitions
Consumes a large portion of the young infants day.
What is Napping
Children at this age are also developing their fine motor skills, so they have increased control of their fingers and wrists.
What is 12-24 months
When children represent their ideas by acting them out using props such as puppets, dolls, or other dramatic play materials.
What is Role Playing
Situation in which a toddlers and infants play in the same space but do not interacts with others
What is parallel play