Early childhood edu. Chpt.4 Vocab

Refers to the change or growth that occurs in children

• maturation

• development

• neurons

refers to the physical body changes (occurs in a relatively stable, predictable sequence)

• physical development

• cognitive development

• maturation

development that involves improvement of skills using the large muscles in the legs and arms

• Gross-motor development

• social-emotional development

• fine-motor development

• cognitive development

The links between the neurons

• neurons

• synapses

• schemata

• sensorimotor stage

Mental representations or concepts that children rearrange and organize

• Schemata

• synapses

• neurons

A toddler is a child from age one up to the third birthday.

• true

• false

according to that principle, the child first gains control of the head, then the arms, then the legs.

• Social-Emotional development

• Proximodistal principle

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Cephalocaudal principle

the spinal cord develops before other parts of the body. The arms develop before the hands, and the hands and feet develop before the fingers and toes.

• Proximodistal principle

• Cephalocaudal principle

• Cognitive development

sequence of biological changes in a child giving the child new abilities

specialized brain nerve cells are called _