Infancy & Childhood

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Specialized study of how an individual’s physical, social, emotional, moral, and intellectual development occur in sequential order as the individual matures

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Developmental psychology

Front

The internally programmed growth of a child

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Maturation

Front

Relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience

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Learning

Front

The kind of verbal utterances in which words are left out, but the meaning is usually clear

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Telegraphic speech

Front

The principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed

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Conservation

Front

A young child’s inability to understand another person’s perspective

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Egocentric

Front

Inherited tendency of some newborn animals to follow the first moving object they see

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Imprinting

Front

To take hold of somebody or something firmly, especially with the hand

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Grasping

Front

A reflex when touched on the cheek, the infant turns the head looking for food

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rooting

Front

______________ is when a toy is felt but not remembered, pictured, or imagined.

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Object Permanence