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Infant Vocabulary
ECE I
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Failure to Thrive | Condition in which a child fails to grow at a healthy rate. |
| Motor Development | Use and control of muscles that direct body movements. |
| Gross Motor Skills | Abilities to control and use large muscles. |
| Fine Motor Skills | Abilities to control and use small muscles. |
| Age Norm | Typical time when a developmental milestone, such as walking or talking occurs. |
| Crawling | Moving by pulling with the arms, but not lifting the abdomen from the floor. |
| Creeping | Moving by using the hands and knees or the hands and feet with the abdomen off the floor. |
| Cruising | Walking by holding something for support. |
| Object concept | Ability to understand that an object, person, or event is separate from one’s interaction with it. |
| Object identity | Ability to understand that an object stays the same from one time to the next. |
| Object constancy | Ability to understand that objects remain the same even if they appear different. |
| Anxiety | fear of possible future events |
| Attachment | closeness between people that remains overtime |
| Colic | condition in which a baby has intense abdominal pain and cries |
| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome | syndrome in which a baby dies without warning in his or her sleep |
| Ossification | harding of bones caused by the depositing of the minerals calcium and phosphorus |
| Voluntary Grasping | intentional grasping of objects |
| Mistrust | most serious form of not trusting which includes a lack of trust and feelings of suspicion |
| Reduplication babbling | repeating the same syllable over and over |
| Intellectual development | how people learn, what they learn, and how they express what they know through language |
| Vocabulary | words a person understands and uses |
| Disposition | general mood of a person |