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31 Cards in this Set
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Development
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Gradual process through which babies become adults.
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Heredity
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Traits that are passed to a child from blood relatives.
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Environment
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Conditions and situations that surround and affect a child
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Neurons
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Brain cells that send and receive electrical impulses throughout the brain
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Wiring
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Network of brain fibers
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Pruning
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Brains ability to change or adapt to the environment
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Window of Opportunity
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Prime period in a child's life for developing a particular skill
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Brain Plasticity
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Brains ability to change or adapt to the environment
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Principles of Growth and Development
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Results of studies that describe how humans are alike.
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Sequenced Steps
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Learnings or skills in growth and development that follow one another in a set order
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Teachable Moment
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Time when a person can learn a new task because the body is physically ready, caregivers encourage and support, and the child feels a strong desire to learn.
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Developmental Tasks
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Skills a person should master at a certain stage in life.
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Dendrites
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Adoption Agency
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A state funded or private agency listened by the state to handle adoptions.
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Cultural Diversity
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Having more than one culture represented around a group of people such as a nation.
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Discipline
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Part of guidance concerned with the use of methods and techniques to teach children self control
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Family life cycle
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Stages that depict family changes
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Guidance
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Words and actions parents use to influence their child's behavior
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Illegal Market Adoption
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An adoption in which a child is bought or sold.
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Independent Adoption
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Type of adoption arranged by the birth parents, adoptive family, and usually one other person.
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Induction
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Form of discipline in which parents reason and explain.
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Joint Custody
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A situation in which divorced parents share child care and decision making responsibilities regarding their children
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Love withdrawal
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Form of discipline in which parents threaten children or suggest some form a parent-child separation
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Multicultural Families
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Families with members from two or more cultural groups
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Nuturance
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Emotional and physical nourishment and care given to someone
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Permissive
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Type of parenting style in which parents give children almost no guidelines or rules.
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Power Assertion
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Form of discipline in which parents use or threaten to use some form of physical punishment
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Brain Plasticity (true)
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Brain connections can be strengthened or pruned.
The brain has prime periods for developing various skills. Experiences can affect brain development and brain health in both positive and negative ways. |
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Child Development is defined by text as ______.
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The scientific study of children
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Child Development is defined by text as ______.
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The scientific study of children
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The ____ stage of the life cycle begins at 12 months and ends at 36 months.
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Toddler
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