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This is Piaget's concept when children use current schemes to interpret the external world.
What is assimilation?
100
This explains how temperament and environment can together produce a favorable outcome. You might look for this when searching for quality child care for your child.
What is goodness-of-fit?
100
Extreme social deprivation can lead to this. It is a growth disorder characterized by very short stature, immature skeletal age, and serious adjustment problems.
What is psychosocial dwarfism?
100
This refers to the idea that certain characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes.
What is the law of conservation?
100
According to Evan Kidd, children who grow up with these are more creative, develop a stronger theory of mind, and are better storytellers.
What are imaginary friends?
200
This refers to the inability to retrieve events that happened to you before the age of 3 year old.
What is infantile Amnesia?
200
This is a special form of communication in which caregiver responds to infant signals in a well-timed, rhythmic, appropriate fashion.
What is interactional synchrony? Also accepted "serve and return."
200
____ is released during sleeping hours, contributing to body growth.
What is GH?
200
Vygotsky's term for children's self-directed speech.
What is private speech?
200
The is the name of the study where researchers looked at the reunification behavior between mother and child after the child was left alone with someone they didn't know.
What is the Strange Situation?
300
This refers to the cognitive operations that enable us to achieve our goals in cognitively challenging situations? It includes the ability to control attention, suppress impulses, coordinate working memory, and flexibility in thought and behavior.
What is Executive Functioning?
300
This behavior begins at 8 to 10 months, when infants actively seek emotional information from a trusted person in an uncertain situation.
What is social referencing?
300
This is a large bundle of fibers that connect the two cerebral hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
300
This refers to adjusting the support offered during a teaching session to fit the child's current level of performance.
What is scaffolding?
300
Zone of Proximal Development
What is ZPD?
400
Around the age of 2 months, babies begin to make vowel-like noises.. oooo aaaaaa uuuuuu.
What is cooing?
400
According to Thomas and Chess study on temperament, 65% of children fell into these 3 types of temperament. They are?
What is easy child, difficult child, and slow to warm up child?
400
This is the stage of from the cognitive development theory that spans from 2 to 7 years. It has the most obvious change for children in this stage is the extraordinary increase in representation, or symbolic, activity.
What is the preoperational stage?
400
By age 3 1/2 to 4, most children grasp this mathematical principle--that the last number in counting a sequence indicates the quantity of items in the set.
What is cardinality?
400
This is a limited form of social participation in which a child plays near other children with similar materials but does not interact with them.
What is parallel play?
500
These are two word utterances that toddlers will use. "Mommy bye-bye" "Daddy Up."
What is telegraphic speech?
500
This becomes the guide for all future close relationships. Your parents brought it with them from their families and it may or may not have influenced how they raised you. (Week 7)
What is internal working model?
500
This is the failure to distinguish the symbolic viewpoints of others from one's own. Mine! Mine! Mine!
What is egocentrism?
500
This is the federal program that began in 1965 to combat the War on Poverty. It provides low income families with a year or two of preschool and other comprehensive services.
What is Head Start?
500
This is when children engage in separate activities but exchange toys and comment on one another's behavior.
What is associative play?