Physical Development
These skills involve using large muscles in a coordinated way to move the body.
What are gross motor skills?
This developmental theorist believed that children's cognitive development occurs through the interaction of innate capacities and environmental events as all children pass through four distinct stages in the same order.
Who is Jean Piaget?
These are the strategies we use to exert control over one's own emotional state or adjust our emotional state to a comfortable level of intensity so we can accomplish our goals.
What is emotional self-regulation?
Toddlers combine two words they know into this kind of speech.
What is telegraphic speech?
Newborn's weakest sensory skill
What is vision?
These skills involve using and coordinating small muscles in movement with the eyes to make precise movements.
What are fine motor skills?
This theorist believed that children live in rich social and cultural contexts that affect their cognitive development and developmental needs as adults help children master activities and thinking in ways that have meaning in their culture.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
The inhibited or shy child and the uninhibited or sociable child (sometimes described as the easy, difficult or slow-to-warm child) are examples of different kinds of...
Children's active efforts to construct literacy knowledge through informal experiences are called...
What is emergent literacy?
The most widely used prenatal diagnostic method that pregnant women can use to detect developmental problems before birth
What is an amniocentesis?
This brain area is responsible for executive functioning skills such as sustained attention, impulse control, planning, cognitive flexibility, and emotion regulation.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
A limited time window in development when a person can most rapidly acquire a particular skill or characteristic. If the necessary experience is not available during this time, it becomes much harder, less successful or even impossible to acquire the skill or trait after the window of opportunity closes.
What are sensitive periods?
Individuals who believe their talents, skills, or knowledge can be developed and increased through hard work, good strategies, and input from others have a...
What is a growth mindset?
The ability to reflect on and manipulate the sound structures of spoken language.
What is phonological awareness?
Development resulting from ongoing, bidirectional exchanges between heredity and all levels of the environment -- where environmental influences or experiences can change gene expression
What is epigenetics?
In middle childhood, what kind of physical activity can increase children's athletic, social, and academic skills?
What are organized youth sports or team sports?
The capacity to understand other people have different mental states, including different perspectives, beliefs, desires, emotions, thoughts, and intentions than your own.
What is theory of mind?
Consistency in caregiving, quality caregiving, infant characteristics or temperament, and family stress are all factors that affect...
What is attachment security?
This theory believes people are born with specific language-learning areas in our brain, making us wired to learn language regardless of our environment or experiences.
What is the Nativist Theory?
The scale used to quickly assess a newborn's physical condition
What is the APGAR scale?
Puberty changes, including body growth and sexual maturation, can start as early as age...
What is age 6-8?
This theory emphasizes the importance of thought processes such as perception, attention, memory, categorization, planning, problem solving, and other executive functioning skills to explain children's learning and thinking
What is information processing theory?
According to the social learning theory, children learn morality through adult ___ and ____.
What is modeling and reinforcement?
This theory believes children learn language out of a desire to communicate with the world around them. Language emerges from, and is dependent on, social interactions.
What is the Interactionist Theory?
The age of viability occurs between ___ and ___ weeks of pregnancy
What is between 22 and 26 weeks of pregnancy?