Sign in to save your progress, vote, and build your own decks.Sign in
Child Development Terms
Terms for child development
13 cards·by Froyo
Growth
Physical changes in size, like height and weight
Development
The gradual increase in skills and abilities that occurs over a lifetime
Physical Development
Advances in physical abilities
Gross-Motor Skills
Skills that depend on the development of the large muscles
Fine-Motor Skills
Skills that depend on the development of the small muscles
Cognitive Development
The way people change and improve in their abilities to think and learn throughout life
Social-Emotional Development
Development that includes the areas of relationships and feelings. Social skills and caring
Social-Emotional Development
Development that includes the areas of relationships and feelings. Social skills and caring
Transitivity
The ability to understand that relationships between two objects can extend to a third object
Seriation
The ability to place objects in order by a characteristic, like smallest to largest.
Classification
he ability to sort items by one or more characteristics they have in common
Dexterity
The skillful use of the hands and fingers
Executive strategies
Skills used to solve problems