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27 Cards in this Set
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Myelination |
the process which axons become coated with myelin |
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Corpus Callosum |
a long thick band of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain allowing communication |
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Lateralization |
left side of the brain controls the right, the right side of the brain controls the left |
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Impulse control |
the ability to control an impulse, denying an immediate response to an idea or behavior |
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perseverate |
to preserve a thought or action for a long time (staying on one activity) |
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injury control/harm reduction |
practices that help to reduce harm and injury |
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primary prevention |
actions that prevent harm (laws) |
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secondary prevention |
actions that avert harm in a high risk situation (slamming on the breaks to stop a car accident) |
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tertiary prevention |
actions that are immediate to keep from continuing pain (Emergency Room) |
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Child Maltreatment |
intentional harm to, or avoidable endangerment of, anyone under 18 years |
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child abuse |
any action to purposefully harm a child in any form or fashion |
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substantiated maltreatment |
harm that’s been reported, investigated, and verified |
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reported maltreatment |
harm that’s been reported |
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PTSD |
anxiety caused by past trauma |
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permanency planning |
finding long term living for children |
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foster care |
a legal system, public supported, in which a child is placed with another family and that family is reimbursed |
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executive function |
ability to organize and prioritize thoughts which allows to anticipate, strategize and plan behavior |
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preoperational intelligence |
piagets term for cognitive development 1-6 language/imagination |
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symbolic thought |
understanding words and items can refer to something else (flag = country) |
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animism |
believing natural object and phenomena are alive and have human characteristics |
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centration |
when a young child focuses on one idea |
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egocentrism |
piagets term for children seeing the world from only their point of view |
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focus on appearance |
when a child ignores the attributes that aren’t apparent (putting on a firefighters helmet and saying their a firefighter) |
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static reasoning |
when a young child thinks that nothing changes. what is now will always be |
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irreversibility |
when a young child thinks nothing can be undone |
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conservation |
the amount of the substance stays the same even when the appearance changes |
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