Vocabulary
use and control of large muscles such as the trunk, arms, and legs to roll over, sit, crawl, stand and walk
Gross-Motor Skills
the stage of development during the first year of life
Infancy
Children between one and three years of age are called
Toddlers
Children between three and five years of age are called
Preschoolers
theory that believes that the culture and social environment i which a child is reared determinate how the child will think and the skills he will develop.
Vygotsk's Sociocultural Theory
Means they fail to grow at a healthy rate
Failure to Thrive
The process of making sense out of stimuli, is highly important in infancy.
Perceptual Learning
During the toddlers years, the eating experience changes. Children graduate from drinking breast milk or formula and eating baby food to eating
Table Foods
Beginning between three to four years of age, one of the most important cognitive advances is
Symbolic Thought
Uses stages to describe children's cognitive development
Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory
The use and control of muscles that direct body movement
Motor Development
Explicit Memory and Implicit Memory
Clothing, bathing, toilet learning,physical activities, rest and sleep are
Physical needs of toddlers
what a person does with his or her memory increases during the preschool years this is called
Memory Capacity
Long term memory, implicit memory, explicit memory, semantic memory, episodic memory.
Working memory are:
Categories of Memory
controlling the small muscles such as those in the fingers and hands.
Fine-Motor Skills
The baby;s brain begins to piece together perceptions to form a picture in the mind. This is the act or process of knowing or understanding also known as
Cognition
Brain development in toddler-hood allows for the great intellectual advance called
Mental Imagery
preschooler's belief that everyone thinks in the same way and has the same ideas as he or she does.
Egocentrism
believed imitation, pretense and language were indicators of the child's current level of thinking
Piaget
physical, intellectual, and social-emotional task many children learn to accomplish by a certain age.
Developmental Milestones
this stage begins at birth and most children complete it in two years. During this stage, children use their senses and motor skills to learn to communicate
Sensorimotor Stage
Intellectual Needs
the process by which children develop proper attitudes towards others this process takes place during the preschool years
Moral Development
identified these abilities as the three important origins of abstract thought in the preschool years;
pretend play props, language and imitation
Vygotsky's