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Emotional Growth
Reflexes and Such
Skills
Temperament
Brain Development
100
a baby's bond to his or her main caregiver.
What is attachment?
100
an instinctive, automatic response
What is a reflex?
100
a skill that involves the large muscles of the body
What is a gross motor skill
100
how determined a child is to complete a task.
What is persistence?
100
the connection between neurons that transmits instructions to another neuron
What is an axon?
200
a fear of unfamiliar people, usually expressed by crying
What is stranger anxiety?
200
a reflex that is stimulated when something is put in a baby's mouth
What is sucking reflex
200
involves the smaller muscles of the body such as those in the fingers
What is a fine motor skill
200
the strength of a child's emotional responses?
What is intensity?
200
a fatty, insulating substance which helps transmit information from one nerve cell to another
What is myelin?
300
a substance found in breast milk to help the body fight off germs.
What is antibodies?
300
use of words and numbers to stand for ideas.
What is symbolic thinking?
300
a key skill used to check a child's progress
What is a developmental milestone
300
how a child accepts changes
What is adaptabiltiy?
300
part of the brain's cerebrum and its growth permits more complex learning.
What is the cortex?
400
a person's unique emotional makeup.
What is temperament
400
a condition in which babies do not grow and develop properly.
What is failure to thrive?
400
a term used to refer to cahnges in size, such as weight and length.
What is growth?
400
how strongly a child notices her own and other's feelings.
What is sensitive?
400
the part of the brain that controls breathing, heart rate and blood pressure.
What is the brain stem?
500
a relationship between events in which one event is cause by another event
What is cause and effect?
500
refers to increases and changes in physical, emotional, social or intellectual skills
What is development?
500
refers to the size relationship between different parts of the body.
What is proportion?
500
how a child faces new situations and people
What is approach?
500
synaptic pathways fading away if they are not used.
What is pruning?