Action taken to endanger a child, involving potential bodily injury
What is physical abuse?
100
The ability to identify a previously encountered stimulus
What is recognition ?
100
Sense of self; descriptive and evaluative mental picture of one's abilities and traits
What is self concept?
100
The inability to consider another person's point of view
What is ego centrism?
100
What federal program promotes the school readiness of children ages birth to 5 from low income families by enhancing their cognitive, social and emotional development
What is Head Start?
200
The preference for using a particular hand
What is handedness?
200
The long term memory of specific experiences or events, linked to time and place
What is episodic memory ?
200
Using objects or material to make something such as a house of blocks or crayon drawing
What is constructive play ?
200
The awareness and understanding of the mental processes
What is theory of the mind?
200
This school focuses on images of the child, expressive arts in the preschool establishment, environment, community and parent school relationships, and progettazione.
What is the Reggio Approach?
300
Physical skills, that involve the small muscles and eye hand coordination such as buttoning or drawing
What is fine motor skills?
300
The Process by which a child absorbs the meaning of a new word after hearing it once or twice in a conversation
What is fast mapping?
300
Which theory holds that children learn gender roles through socialization
What is Social Cognitive Theory ?
300
Pre-operational child's tendency to mentally link particular experiences whether or not there is logically a casual relationship
What is Trasduction?
300
This organization promotes research on play, play based learning, why play is important part of child learning and development and the role of play in the classroom
What is NAEYC
400
Physical skills that involve the large muscles such as running and jumping
What is Gross Motor Skills ?
400
Individual intelligence test used to measure memory, spatial orientation, and practical judgement
What is Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
400
Stage in which children balance the urge to pursue goals with moral reservation that may prevent them from carrying them out
What is Initiative Versus Guilt?
400
Second major stage of cognitive development in which children become more sophisticated in their use of symbolic thought but are not yet able to use logic
What is the pre-operational stage
400
This website has important features such as tips on positive ways to talk and listen to children, age by age insights, and learning how to cope with outbursts and child meltdowns
What is PBS Parents?
500
Increasingly complex combinations of skills that permit a wider or more precise range of movement and more control of the environment
What is Systems of Action
500
Based on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, which proposes that children construct autobiographic memories through conversation with adults about shared events
What is the Social Interaction model?
500
Disciplinary techniques designed to induce desirable behavior by appealing to a child's sense of reason and fairness; setting limits and negotiation
What is inductive techniques ?
500
The ability to use symbols or mental representations such as words, numbers, or images to which a person has attached meaning
What is symbolic function?
500
The organization raises awareness to TV violence and the impact on children physically, emotionally, and socially
What is AACAP or the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry