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XI: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

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Growth and Motor Development   show
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Ossification   show
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Gross Motor Skills   show
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show follows the proximodistal principle. As children get better at these skills, they can become more independent and do more for themselves. Many of these skills are difficult for young children because they involve both hands and both sides of the brain  
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Brain Development   show
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Plasticity   show
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Lateralization   show
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Myelination   show
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Nutrition and Eating Habits   show
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Physical Activity   show
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Sleep   show
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show Limited screen time, educational programs and co-viewing with caregivers may promote language skills  
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Toxins that Can Harm Development   show
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show drowning, car accidents, unintentional suffocation, fire  
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show the most common nonfatal accidents that require an ER visit  
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Piaget's Preoperational Reasoning   show
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Egocentrism   show
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Animism   show
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Centration   show
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show inability to understand that reversing a process can undo it and restore it to its original state ex.) Johnson doesn't understand that removing the extra block restores the block structure to its original state  
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show cultural context shapes how we think and who we become; with interaction and experience, the child adopts and internalizes the tools and knowledge becoming able to apply them to be independent  
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show A form of teaching that helps children accomplish more than they could alone; they're still the ones achieving it but they're being guided through it  
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show assistance that is tailored to the child's needs and permits children to bridge the gap between their current competence level and the task at hand  
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Zone of Proximal Development (ZDP)   show
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Private Speech   show
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show the ability to remain focused on a stimulus for an extended period of time; improvements in this  
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Working Memory   show
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show more skilled at controlling and deploying resources to serve goals (coming up with plans and using them to achieve goals)  
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Episodic Memory   show
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Recognition Memory   show
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show the ability to generate a memory of a stimulus one has encountered before without seeing it again; children are less proficient in this  
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Memory Strategies   show
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Autobiographical Memory   show
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show incorporation of misinformation into memory due to leading questions, deception, and other causes; repeating questioning increases suggestibility, younger children are more vulnerable to this than older adults  
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show children's awareness of their own and other's mental processes, commonly assessed by examining children's abilities to understand that people can hold different beliefs about an object or event, emerges at about 3 and shifts reliably between 3 and 4  
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show knowledge of how the mind works and ability to control the mind  
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False-Belief-Tasks   show
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Language Development   show
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show grammatical errors because rules are being applied too strictly ex.) I putted it int he house; applying 'ed' to all past-tense words  
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Logical Extension   show
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show when children assume that objects have only one label or name ex.) If a child has learned the word 'hammer' they won't assume an unfamiliar tool has the same name  
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show Bilingual children learn two sets of rules for combining words and grammar, they select an appropriate language to use with other speakers, and the total vocabulary growth in bilingual children is greater than monolingual children  
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