| A | B |
|---|
| Intellectual Development | Speaking and Writing |
| Moral Development | Recognizing right and wrong |
| Social Development | Caring for a younger sibling |
| Physical Development | Jumping and running |
| Developmental Task | The challenges at a particular stage of life |
| Environment | The people, places, and things that surround and influence a person |
| Heredity | The passing on of certain characteristics from earlier generations |
| Self-esteem | How you value yourself |
| Sequence | Step-by-step pattern, as in child development |
| Jean Piaget | The first person to study children in a scientific way |
| anecdotal record | a method of recording observations in which the observer writes down all behaviours about the same issue |
| baseline | a count taken of a child's behavior before any attempts to modify behaviour |
| developmental checklist | a sequence of skills or tasks that a child of a certain age should master |
| deprivation | lack of an enrichment environment |
| nurturing | providing an encouraging and enriching environment |
| guidance | helping children learn to control their own behavior |
| accreditation | formal recognition of a childcare center |
| permissive | parenting style with the most freedom |
| authoritarian | parenting style with firm limits |
| democratic | parenting style where children and parents discuss rules |
