- cooperative play: at 3 years children play WITH one another
- Dramatic play: It provides an outlet for thoughts and feelings
- Dramatic play: It helps Children to slove personal problems
- Dramatic play: It helps children expand their imagination
- eating habits: established early in life, and may affect adult weight
- eating habits: severe malnutrition may cause brain damage
- egocentric: They think the whole world revolves around them
- egocentric: children thinks that people see the world the same way the child does
- Emotional: more aware of feelings
- Emotional: can't separate real from pretend
- emotional development: self confidence is built throurgh a loving relationship
- emotional development: to enhance emotional development, provide an environment that fosters independence and trust
- example fine motor skill: putting together a puzzle
- example large motor skills: running, kicking the ball, etc.
- fine motor skills: exact, acute movements
- fine motor skills: development of fine muscles
- Intellectual development: An example is acquiring language abilities, and being able to follow instructions
- Intellectual development: read to a childon a regular basis to introduce reading to a child
- language: be good language model
- language: kids ask alot of questions because they are curious
- language: children understand many words even though they can't say them
- large motor skills: movements of large muscle groups
- moral development: The process of basing behavior on what you believe is right or wrong
- moral development: The best way to build a conscience is to bea good example
- motor skills: simple to complex
- motor skills: develops from head to toe
- motor skills: coordinated movements of body parts
- motor skills: when child masters developmental task, can move on to next level
- parallel play: children play NEAR but not actually WITH
- parallel play: most common form of child's play
- Physical: head is big as its going to get
- physical growth: is fastest in infants
- physical growth: the average child learns to walk between 9-15 months
- piaget: believes that development takes place in an orderly fashion
- piaget: babies are in the sensorimotor period, and learn through their senses
- piaget: babies under four months do not understand object permanence
- piaget: In a conservation experiment, children think that a nickel is more than a dime
- social development: learning to get along with others
- social development: play helps a child learn to share and cooperate
- solitary play: ignore other children who are nearby
- toilet training: children might be frightened by the flushing of the toilet
- toilet training: potty training should begin when a child is about 2 years old
- toilet training: if a child resists toilet training, drop the subject for a while