There are billions of these, also called nerve cells, in the infant's brain.
What are neurons?
100
This is an unlearned, involuntary action or movement in response to a particular stimulus.
What is a reflex?
100
___________is Piaget's term for the way infants think -- by using their senses and motor skills --- during the first period of cognitive development.
What is sensorimotor intelligence?
100
This term refers to the lasting emotional bond that one person has to another.
What is Attachment?
100
The average age when social smiling can first be viewed.
What is Six weeks?
200
This is the last part of the brain to mature.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
200
These are two reflexes that facilitate feeding in the newborn.
What are the sucking and rooting reflexes?
200
The realization that objects still exist when they can no longer be seen, touched, or heard.
What is Object Permanence?
200
This represents the ability to control when and how emotions are expressed and appear to be due to connections between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex.
What is Emotional Regulation?
200
This experiment helps us understand the infant's attachment to the parent.
What is Ainsworth's Strange Situation?
300
These parts of the brain rapidly increase during infancy.
What are axons, dendrites, and synapses?
300
These motor skills involve the large muscles and small muscle movements respectively.
What are gross and fine motor skills?
300
Freud's ______________approach focused on unconscious sexual impulses as the primary force in a child's development.
What is psychoanalytic?
300
This is the most productive and enjoyable activity for children and is necessary to their healthy development.
What is Play?
300
This type of play allows children to act out various roles and themes and helps them explore and rehearse the social roles they see around them.
What is Sociodramatic Play?
400
This term refers to the deactivation of of underused neurons.
What is pruning.
400
This is the average age range for infants to master walking.
What is 13-15 months?
400
This theorist, following in the footsteps of Freud, focused more on culture and social influences on development across the entire lifespan.
Who is Erik Erikson?
400
These are 3 of 4 types of parenting styles that affects a child's emotional development.
What are Authoritarian, Permissive, Authoritative or Neglectful/Uninvolved?
400
These are 4 of the 5 types of play identified by Mildred Parten.
What are Solitary, Onlooker, Parallel, Associative and Cooperative play?
500
This begins as primarily "active" with a high proportion of REM but by age 3-4 months becomes more "quiet".
What is Sleep?
500
__________ occurs when a sensory system detects a stimulus and ________occurs when a sensory system is being processed.
What are sensation and perception?
500
This theory focuses on reinforcement and punishment to explain development.
What is Behaviorism?
500
True or False: Young children hold strong gender stereotypes and beliefs.
What is True?
500
This term represents young children coming to understand things from others' viewpoints.