Bones, Brains and More!
Growth during infancy and childhood follows this principle in which growth occurs first in the head and trunk and later in the hips, legs, and feet.
What is, the cephalocaudal principle.
An unlearned motor responds to stimuli.
Coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs,
What is, Motor Skills
According to Piaget, these are psychological structures that organize experience
What are, Schemas
This is the production of vowel-like sounds such as “ooooooo” or “ahhhhhhh.”
What is, Cooing.
Bone develops from this strong and flexible tissue.
What is, Cartilage.
The rooting reflex is triggered when a finger touches this part of the infant's body, causing the infant to turn its head towards the finger.
What is, the cheek.
Scribbling with a pencil is a form of this motor skill.
What is, fine motor skill.
This is a type of adaptation that involves changing one’s existing schemas to fit the new experience.
What is, Accomodation
This is speech eventually becomes inner speech.
What is, Private Speech
Malnutrition is most harmful during this stage of development.
What is, Infancy.
When Timmy puts a small block in his newborn daughter’s hand, she grasps it tightly. Timmy's daughter is displaying this reflex.
What is, the Palmar reflex.
These two influences determine hand preference in children.
What is, experience and heredity.
According to Piaget, most infants begin to use symbols at about this age.
What is, 18-24 months.
This phenomenon is a period of language learning around 18 months of age when children rapidly acquire new words.
What is, Naming Explosion
The disappearance of synapses is a process called ...?
What is, Synaptic Pruning.
Repeatedly sucking one’s thumb is considered this kind of circular reaction.
What is, Primary Circular Reaction - Recreating a pleasant event with the body.
What is, Crawling
This theory states that human thinking is based on mental hardware and mental software
Changing the pitch of your voice refers to this skill. can you hear it?
What is, Intonation
Axons are wrapped in this fatty sheath to help transmit information more rapidly.
What is, Myelin.
An infant accidentally hits a ball and sees it move. The infant then hits the ball repeatedly, making it move over and over again. This is an example of this circular reaction.
What is, Secondary Circular Reaction.
Newborns cannot master posture because they are disproportionately weighted as in -
What is, Top-Heavy.
A young infant can remember events up to this long afterwards.
What is, days or weeks.
This occurs when one defines a word too narrowly.
What is, Underextension.