MODULE 8 Flashcards
Physical growth increases in the preschool years, although much ______ than in infancy and toddlerhood.
Slower
Refers to the point at which body weight is evenly distributed.
Center of gravity
Preschooler’s center of gravity is right near the ______ giving them more ability to be more stable and balanced than the toddler.
Belly button
At around __ or ___ is the best time to begin learning skills that require balance like biking or skating.
5 or 6
Permanent teeth are ready to come out by what age?
6 years old
This refers to acquiring skills that involve the large muscles
Gross motor development
Gross motor are categorized into 3, what are those?
- Locomotor skills
- Non-locomotor skills
- Manipulative skills
Involve going from one place to another like walking, running, climbing, skipping, hopping, creeping, galloping, and dodging.
Locomotor skills
Those were the child stays in place like bending, stretching, turning, and swaying.
Non-locomotor skills
Involve projecting and receiving objects such as throwing, striking, bouncing, catching, dribbling.
Manipulative skills
Preschoolers are generally physically active, with level of activity highest around ___ and a little less as the preschooler gets older.
3 years old
This is acquiring the ability to use the smaller muscles in the arms, hands, and fingers purposefully such as picking, squeezing, pounding and opening things, holding and using a writing implement.
Fine motor development
Examples of self-help skills
Using a spoon and fork when eating
Buttoning
Zipping
Combing
Brushing
Significant progress in fine motor skills can be expected especially if they are _______ and _______
Supported and appropriate activities are provided
The preference of the use of one hand over the other, usually established around 4 years of age.
Handedness
Preschool children show their cognitive abilities by being able to draw objects that are not present, by their dramatic increase in their language, and make-believe play.
Symbolic Sub-stage
In this sub-stage, they begin to use primitive reasoning and ask a lot of questions, facilitated by their growing language capabilities.
Intuitive sub-stage
Preschoolers who use this fail to distinguish the appropriate occasions for using human and non-huan perspectives. They realize events have cause although the perceived causes are not correct.
Animisim
Another limitation in preschoolers symbolic thought, the inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and someone else’s perspective, like nodding while talking to his father on the phone thinking that his father can see him.
Egocentrism
Focusing on or centering of one’s attention on one characteristics to the exclusion of others. Also referred to as uni-dimensional thought. This is also an evidence of the pre-schoolers’ lack of conservation.
Centration
Failure to understand that an operation can go in two or more directions. He is not yet capable of reversible thinking or working backwards.
Irreversibility
A preschooler does not use deductive or inductive reasoning, instead they jump from one particular to another and see cause where none exists
Transductive reasoning
Shown in the preschooler’s ability to mentally represent an object that is not present; they do not need to be in sensorimotor contact with an object, person or event in order to think about it.
Symbolic thought
TRUE OR FALSE
Socio-emotional development is crucial in the preschool years.
TRUE
