Motor Skills
The ability to maintain balance while performing an activity, such as standing on one foot or stabilizing during a jump.
What is postural control?
This causes digestive discomfort but does not involve the immune system.
What is a food intolerance, such as lactose intolerance?
2.5 to 3 inches
What is the typical preschooler's growth in height per year?
Preschoolers have difficulty understanding another person’s perspective, often assuming others see and think the same way they do
What is egocentrism?
The study/knowledge of the sounds that make up words.
This large-muscle skill includes running and jumping.
What is gross motor
milk, eggs, tree nuts, soy, wheat, and shellfish
What are common allergens?
The typical preschooler will gain this much weight per year.
What is 3 to 5 pounds?
This theorist emphasized that cognitive development is fueled by social interactions.
Who is Vygotsky?
This is the beginning of “thinking about thinking.”
What is metacognition?
What is 10%?
Preschoolers often eat these between meals to keep from feeling hungry because of the small size of their stomachs.
What are snacks?
Developmental timeframes when the brain is especially receptive to learning certain skills.
What are windows of opportunities?
Kohlberg's theory said that children will make a moral choice based on avoiding this.
What is punishment?
How words are combined to form sentences.
What is syntax?
This motor skill includes cutting with scissors and holding a pencil to write.
What is fine motor skills.
This is an immune system response that can cause severe symptoms, such as skin and breathing problems.
What is an allergy?
In this way, a preschooler's body begins to look slimmer?
What is a longer trunk or arms and leaner face?
This is the gap between what a child can do alone and what they can do with help
What is the zone of proximal development OR ZPD.
The meaning of words.
What is semantics?