Child Growth and Development
Child growth includes the period between toddlerhood to pre-adolescence. In the post-toddler period, nutrition continues to be critically important. The child's coordinati...
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Child Development
Child development is a general term that takes into account all areas of a child's growth, including physical, intellectual, emotional, moral, social, psychological, and sensory and ...
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Emotional Development
The study of the emotional development of infants and children is relatively new, having been studied empirically only during the past few decades. Researchers have approached th...
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Critical Period
A time span generally in early development during which an organism is uniquely sensitive to specific stimuli. Also referred to as the optimal or sensitive period.
Although the term &#...
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Skeletal Development
Development of the bones of the human body.
Scientists who study the development of the human being from conception to birth begin calling the embryo a fetus around eight weeks af...
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Anatomical Age
Numerical assessment of a child's physical growth in relation to statistical average.
Using statistical data, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Institutes of He...
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Bayley Scales of Infant Development
A comprehensive developmental test for infants and toddlers from 2-30 months of age.
The Bayley Scales of Infant Development measure mental and physical, as well as...
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Boehm Test of Basic Concepts [revised (Boehm-R)]
A readiness test for children in grades K-2 that evaluates mastery of basic concepts important for achievement in the early years of school.
The Boehm ...
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As a Child Development major, there are a lot of classes and requirements I need to take in order to graduate; Biological Bases of Behavior is one of them. Though it is only a requirement for me to l...
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The learning theory refers to behaviourists' attempts to explain all behaviour in terms of conditioning. The learning theory suggests that through classical conditioning, which is to associate a sti...
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Child Growth and Development
Child Development
Critical Period
