Physical Changes
Physical growth pattern typical of early childhood
What is slows down?
What is pre-frontal cortex?
Professor Koontz states we should always assess this
What is the quality of sleep of children, adolescents, and adults?
Motor development involving large muscles of the body.
What is gross motor development?
The ability to distinguish between one's own perspective and someone else's perspective
What is egocentrism?
Physical development differences between girls and boys
What is girls have more fatty tissue than boys and boys have more muscle tissue than girls
What is myelination?
Per World Health Organization, how many hours of sleep should 3- to 4-year olds have at night.
What is 10 - 13 hours?
By age 4, children's level of performance resembles that of adults.
What are gross motor skills?
What is Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development?
The term for the first set of teeth that remain until age 6 or 7?
What is deciduous teeth?
Recently understood factors impacting brain development
What is poverty and parenting quality?
Nightmares and restless sleep during early childhood is often linked to this diagnosis.
What is ADHD?
Reasons gross motor skills and acquisition of language may be releated.
What is explosure to more in their environment?
Providing a framework for children to understand concepts.
What is scaffolding?
Contributors to difference in height and weight
What is ethnic origin and nutrition?
The region of the brain that contains neurons involved in speech function impacted by experiencing traumatic experiences. "I was scared speechless."
What is broca area?
Efforts to improve dietary intake
What is predictable schedule, nutricious food, lack of distractions such as TV?
The foundation of artistic abilities.
What is scribbling?
One of the early milestones in language development.
What is coosing?
Development sequencel; earliest growth at the top of the head and development is gradually downward.
What is cephalocaudal pattern.
The brain eliminates extra synapses. Synapses are brain structures that allows the neurons to transmit an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron.
What is pruning?
What is obesity as adults, heart disease, and diabetes?
Age when children can build high block towers while having a high level of concentration.
What is a 3-year-old?
A program created during President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty (launch 1965) that had a goal to break the cycle of poverty by serving children in low income families.
What is Head Start?