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Child Development
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Physical | having to do with the body, large motor skills develop large muscles, small motor skills develop hand-eye coordination, senses, height, weight |
| Intellectual | having to do with the mind, brain, learning, and problem solving, school concepts, creative thinking skills, literacy, moral development |
| Emotional | identifying and expressing feelings, understanding others' feelings, developing a positive self-concept |
| Social | getting along and interacting with others, sharing, taking turns, cooperating, appreciating diversity |
| Verbal/Linguistic | use language to express thoughts/feelings, language arts oriented |
| Logical/Mathematical | understand underlying principles of some kind of casual system, math/science oriented |
| Visual/Spatial | presents the spatial world internally in your mind, art oriented |
| Musical/Rhythmic | think in music, hear patterns, recognise patterns and possible manipulate them, music oriented |
| Bodily/Kinesthetic | use the body to solve problems, make something, or put on a production, physical oriented |
| Naturalist | discriminate among living things, sensitive to features of the natural world, tree hugger, nature oriented |
| Interpersonal | understand other people |
| Intrapersonal | understands oneself, know who you are and your abilities |
| Existential | tendency to think and ask questions about life, death, or alternate realities |
| Development is similar for everyone | key word --> similar, babies lift their heads before they lift their body and stand before walking |
| Development builds off of earlier learning | we must know our ABC's before we can read words and we must know sounds before we can speak |
| Development proceeds at an individual rate | some babies walk at 9 months, others walk at 18 months |
| Development is interrelated | PIES work together to make a fully developed child |
| Development is continuous throughout life | begins at birth, and continues until death, learning a foreign language |
| Cephalocaudal | babies develop from head to toe, because the body is top-heavy at birth |
| Proximodistal | babies develop from the center of the body outward, the hands develop before the fingers |
| Differentiation | simple to complex, which is how babies progress |
| Growth | increase of size, measureable, height, weight, qualitative |
| Development | progress and improvement, quantitative |
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