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Involves advances in physical abilities.
What is physical development?
Steps that occur in a predictable and orderly manner.
What is a sequence?
Development that includes the areas of relationships and feelings. Individuals must learn social skills and how to care about others.
What is social-emotional development?
The ability to sort items by one or more characteristics they have in common.
What is classification?
The ability to understand that something can remain the same even if the way it looks changes; for example, a simple change in the shape of an object does not change the amount.
What is conservation?
What is a developmental delay?
The skillful use of the hands and fingers.
What is dexterity?
Skills use to solve problems.
What is executive strategies?
The ability to move the hands precisely in response to what the eyes see.
What is hand-eye coordination?
The ability to place objects in order by a characteristic, such as smallest to the largest.
What is seriation?
The ability to understand that relationships between two objects can extend to a third object.
What is transitivity?
What is visual-motor coordination?
The part of the brain responsible for emotional reactions such as anger.
What is the amygdala?
The lack of simultaneous occurrence as occurs when body parts grow at different rates.
What is asynchrony?
Independence that includes personal responsibility and decision making.
What is autonomy?
Self-focus.
What is egocentrism?
The cells of the brain that actually make a person think.
What is gray matter?
Rapid increases in height and weight; marked growth that occurs during adolescence.
What are growth spurts?
Feeling incapable of being defeated or having anything bad happen.
What is invincibility?
Thinking critically about a person's own thinking processes.
Trying to do many things at the same time.
What is multitasking?
The links between brains cells that can be strengthened through activities that repeatedly stimulate the brain.
What are neural connections?
The part of the brain that regulates emotions and impulse control.
The physical transformation from a child to and adult capable of reproduction.
What is puberty?
The ability to bounce back after a defeat or setback.
What is resilience?