How Toddlers Learn
Brain development in toddlerhood allows for the great intellectual advance
What is Mental Imagery
What is Bilingual
Questions that require a one or two word response
What is Closed-Ended Questions
Questions that require a descriptive response for an answer
What is Open-Ended Questions
Sounds of letters and syllables
What is Phonics
Children learn through the senses and physical actions in six substages
What is Sensorimotor Stage
The study of word usage and order in a given language
What is Grammar
Symbolic actions seen in play that mimic real situations
What is Pretense
Children run, climb, jump, and crawl
What is Gross-Motor Skills
Delayed or postponed
What is Deferred
Uses stages to describe children's cognitive development
What is Piaget
Bilingual toddlers spread their learning of language across two languages
What is Bilingualism
Person's ability to pronounce words that can be understood by others
What is Articulation
Drawing a picture, which requires the ability to grasp a writing tool, also aids symbol making and creativity
What is Fine-Motor Activities
Third in a sequence
What is Tertiary
What is Vygotsky
Language delays or losses are often early signs
What is Autism
Ability to recall and later imitate someone's behavior
What is Deferred Imitation
Activity that encourages toddlers to try out their ideas
What is Basic Concept Activities
Paths objects take
What is Trajectories
Strategies used in teaching children are also affected by the culture and social environment in which a child is reared
What is Scaffolding
How many words a child understands or speaks is related to the quality of interactions the toddler has with parents and caregivers
What is Differences in Environmental Influences
Second level of pretense in which the toddler uses one set of objects to represent another set of objects and pretends to do something that involves other people (parents) or objects (stuffed animals)
What is Collective Symbolism
Provide the toddler with toys that have a realistic purpose, such as a doll to represent a baby, when the toddler first begins symbolic play.
Words that imitate sounds such as pop, fizz, and buzz
What is Onomatopoeic