Test 5 Vocab Flashcards
Growth
An increase in physical size or quantitative change
Developmental milestones
Major markers of normal development
Development
Increase in skill or ability to function
Maturation
Reaching adulthood or appropriate development
Temperament
A child’s innate pattern of behavior including adaptability, withdraw or approach, activity level, and rhythms
Developmental task
A skill or growth responsibility arising at a particular time that if achieved will provide a foundation for a future task
Trust V Mistrust
Infants viewing the world as safe and comfortable or suspicious and rejecting
Autonomy V Shame/Doubt
A child takes hold of decisions and decision making or has little decision making ability and confidence
Initiative V Guilt
Starting activities independently or not being confident in their choices
Industry V Inferiority
Learning to independently do things well or not having confidence in completed or attempted tasks
Identity V Role Confusion
Integrating different roles into one being or struggling to identify themselves and who they are
Intimacy V Isolation
Ability to relate and accept others or being emotionally alone
Generativity V Stagnation
Developing self-confidence, the ability to handle numerous roles, and awareness for the needs of others. Or to be self absorbed and only fulfilling few roles
Integrity V Dispair
Reflecting positively on life or wanting to be able to redo or change the last
Cognitive development
Learning through thinking and reason
Sensorimotor stage
Using senses and movement to learn practically
Birth-2
Permanence
Awareness that objects exist out of site
Schemas
The organization of thought
Centering
Focusing on only one aspect of an object
Conservation
Change in form does not mean change in amount
Reversibility
Ability to retrace steps
Role fantasy
Changing reality to fit how the child would like for things to be
Assimilation
Taking in information and fitting it with existing ideas
Accommodation
The change of ideas to fit reality
Egocentrism
Personal need L&D supersede others needs
Abstract thought
Allows problem solving, critical thinking, and the development of hypotheses
Extrusion reflex
Tongue reflex expelling food out of the mouth. Stops at 4 months
Natal teeth
Teeth present at birth
Neonatal teeth
Teeth present in the first 4 weeks
Deciduous teeth
Teeth until 6-7. Protect the dental arch
Neck-righting reflex
Turning the shoulders, trunk, and pelvis in the same direction the head is turned. Begins at 4 months
Thumb opposition
Bringing thumbs and fingers together. Grossly starts at 4 months
Pincer grasp
Placing thumb and pincer together. 10 months
Binocular vision
Ability to fuse two images in one across the viewing midline
Hand regard
Holding and studying their hands held in front of their own face. 3 months
Social smile
Intentionally reciprocating a smile. 6 weeks
Eighth month old anxiety
Acute fear of strangers at 8 months
Object permanence
An object out of site still exists. 10 months
Seborrhea
A scaly scalp condition also called cradle cap. Scaly patches that are erythematic underneath
Baby-bottle syndrome
Decay of the upper teeth due to putting baby to bed with a bottle
Assimilation
Changing a situation or one’s perception to fit thoughts
Autonomy
Independence
Deferred imitation
Ability to remember an action and imitate it later
Discipline
Setting rules to establish expectations
Lordosis
Forward curve of the spine
Parallel play
Playing next to but not with another
Toddler
Preoperational thought
End of toddler stage when a child begins to use assimilation
Punishment
Consequence resulting from breaking rules
Tertiary circular reaction stage
“Little scientist”
Child try’s new ways to do things and can follow a different path to get an object that has rolled away
Broken fluency
Repetition and prolonged sounds of sounds, syllables, and words
Bruxism
Grinding teeth while sleeping
Conservation
Change in form does not equal change in quantity
Ectomorphic body type
Slim build
Endomorph
Larger build
Electra complex
Preschool girl attachment to father
Genu valgas
Knees touch medially
Knock knees
Intuitional thought
Inability to view themselves as others see them or to see from another’s perspective.
Toddler-preschool
Oedipus complex
Preschool son has strong affection to mother
Secondary stuttering
Develops after a child speaks without stuttering
Accommodation vision
Ability to visually adjust to a close object
Intellectual accommodation
The ability to change thoughts to fit what is perceived
Caries
Dental cavities
Class inclusion
Objects can belong in more than one class
Decententering
To see from another’s perspective
Inclusion
Children with disabilities attending regular schools or classes
Latchkey children
A child without supervision for a part of each workday
Malocclusion
Deviation from normal teeth positioning
Nocturnal emissions
Ejaculation during sleep
Adolescence
13-20
Comedones
Blackhead acne
Formal operational thought
Thinking abstractly and using the scientific method
Glycogen loading
Refraining from carbs for several days before an athletic event and then gorging on a large amour the day before
Identity
Determining who one is
Adolescence
Puberty
Person is capable of sexual reproduction
Role confusion
Uncertainty or non development of identity
Stalking
Repetitive and unwanted attempts to gain attention or evoke fear
Substance abuse
Using any chemical to alter cognition or obtain euphoria
Labels mood
Abrupt change in mood and demeanor
