Sub Area 1 Child Development Learning and Assessment Flashcards
Gross Motor Skills
Large Movements such as running, climbing, crawling, traversing, monkey bars or throwing and kicking balls
Fine Motor Skills
Small muscle groups in the hands that produce small movements to support activities such as writing, cutting, fastening and unfastening buttons or zippers and opening food items.
Early Childhood
Period of time from ages birth to age 8
Infancy
Period of time from birth to age 1
Toddler
Period of time from age 1 - age 3
Synaptic Growth
Neurons forming during infancy
Synaptic Pruning
Eliminates extra (irrelevant) neurons and makes connections between new learnings
Jean Piaget
The Theory of Cognitive Development; children go through 4 stages of development(their brain undergoes changes as they grow)
Sensorimotor Stage
Birth to age 2; coordinate movement of their bodies
Preoperational Stage
Age 2-Age 7; begin to think about things beyond the physical world (pretend to play pretending a broom is a horse)
Concrete Operational Stage
Age 7- Age 11 children begin to think logically about items; cause and effect, distance size
Objective Permanence
Understanding that the items and people still exist even when you can’t see or hear them
Reflexes
Involuntary or automatic action that your body does in response to something else
Symbolic function
Children can create mental images of objects and store them in their minds for later use
