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| development | refers to change of growth that occur in children |
| infants | from birth through the first year |
| toddlers | are children from age one up to the third birthday |
| preschooler | is often used to describe children ages three to six years of age |
| physical development | refers to physical body changes |
| gross-motor development | involves improvement of skills using the large muscles in the legs and arms |
| fine-motor development | fine-motor development involes the small muscles in the legs and arms |
| congnitive development | sometimes called intellectual development refers to expression of feelings |
| social-emotional development | the third area of development |
| cephalocaudal principal | development tends to proceed from the head downward |
| proximodistal | development also proceed from the center of the body outward |
| neurons | it contains billions of of speacialized never cells |
| synapses | after birth the links between the neurons develop rapidly |
| windows of oppurtunity | or a specif span of time for the normal development of certain types of skills |
| preoperational stage | takes place between ages two and seven |
| concrete operations | at this stage children can also classify groups of objects and put objects in a series |
| multiple intelligences | emphasizes that there are different kinds of intelligence used bythe human brain |
| maturation | refers to the sequence of biological changes in children |
| theory | is a pricipal |
| schemata | a mental reprensentation or concepts |
