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Parenting
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Bonding | forming strong emotional ties between individuals |
Child development | the study of how children grow and change physically |
Classification | the process of mentally grouping objects or ideas into categories or groups based on some unique feature |
Cooperative play | activity in which children actually play with one another |
Directed learning experiences | learning experiences that are planned with a specific goal in mind |
Environment | a person's surroundings and everything in them, including both human and non-human factors |
Failure to thrive | a condition in which the baby does not grow or develop properly |
Imitation | learning that occurs by watching and copying the actions of others |
Individual life cycle | a series of stages a person passes through during his or her lifetime; includes infant, toddler, preschool, school age, and adolescence |
Large motor skills | the use and control of the large muscles of the back, legs, shoulders, and arms |
Moral behavior | to behave in ways that are acceptable to society and family |
Object permanence | the concept in which an infant learns that people or things exist even when they are gone from sight |
Parallel play | activity in which children play side by side without interacting |
Puberty | the set of changes that gives a child a physically mature body able to reproduce |
Reversibility | capable of going backward or forward through a series of actions or changes |
Role model | a person that someone admires and wishes to pattern his or her behavior after |
Separation anxiety | a child's fear of being away from parents, familiar caregivers, or the normal environment |
Seriation | the ability to arrange items in an increasing or decreasing order based on weight, volume, number, or size; grouping by a common property |
Small motor skills | an ability that depends on the use and control of the finer muscles of the wrist, finger, and ankles |
Stranger anxiety | a baby's fear of unfamiliar people |
Temper tantrum | a sudden outburst of anger in which children may kick, scream, cry, or hold their breath |