A child's physial increase in size or amount that is easily observed and measured.
What is growth?
He identified how cognitive skills develop through ;a series of particular stages, beginning with sensorimotor stage.
Who is Jean Piaget?
How people see themselves based on emotios, personality and ways they perceive the world.
What is self concept?
Fine, downy hair growing on a newborn's forehead.
What is lanugo?
The toddler stage begins when a child an do this.
What is walking?
The ability of a child to do thins that are increasingly complex and difficult.
What is deveelopment?
His theory states that personaliy develops in 8 stages throughout life.
Who is Eik Erikson?
The complex molecules that make up genes.
What is DNA?
The concept that objects will continue to exist, even when they are out of sight.
What is object permanence?
According to Piaget, a toddler is leaving the sensorimotor stage and entering this stage.
What is the preoperational stage?
Walking, tiptoeing and crawling are examples of this physical skill.
What arelarge motor skills?
His social learning theory first introduced the concept of positive and negative reinforcement.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
23 pairs of these tiny threadlike structures are located in the nucleus of every cell.
What are chromosomes?
Uncontrollabale crying by an otherwise healthy baby.
What is colic?
Toddlers may play near another child but not with them.
What is parallel play?
The ability of the brain to take in and process information.
What is cognitive development?
Her theory stressed that children learn best when the learning is self directed.
Who is Maria Montessori?
Another name fosr a nerve cell.
What is a neuron?
Hungry, angry, bored, uncocmfortable.
What are the basic cries in infancy?
Language development happens rapidly during toddlerhood. language development is a type of this kind of development.
What is cognitive or intellectual development?
The ability to recognize and understand feelings and how to appropriately respond to them.
What is emotional development?
Sigmund Freud called this the central part of our personality.
What is the ego?
This produces a trait in a person whether either one or two genes of the paiar is inherited for that trait.
What is a dominant gene?
When a cheek is stroked, the baby turns its head towards the touch and opens his mouth.
What is rooting?
Toddlers do not havae the ability to differentiate between self and others. More specifically, it is the inability to understand any perspective other than one's own.
What is egocentrism?