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Fine Motor Skills |
Physical skills involving small body movement and muscle groups aye |
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Cause and Effect |
The ability to recognize and associate the causes of events with the effects they produce |
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Gross Motor Skills |
Physical skills involving large body movement and muscle groups |
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Insecure Attachment |
Infant displays fear, anger, or indifference toward the caregiver |
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Myelination |
The increase in the fatty, insulation substance that coats the neurons from ages birth to 4 |
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Relinquish |
To give up possession of |
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Stranger Anxiety |
Fear or wariness of people with whom a child is not familiar with, relatively universal behavior of infants approximately 6th months ago |
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Special Needs |
The individual requirements of a person with a disadvantaged background or a mental, emotional, or physical disability or a high risk of developing one |
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Attachment |
Enduring emotional connection; constant attention |
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Infancy |
Early childhood; 0-12 months |
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Safe Haven Laws |
An infant that is 60 days or younger can be relinquished |
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Conception |
Implantation of a zygote into the urine line 14 days after fertilization |
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Uterus |
Pear shape, between Fallopian tubes |
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Genotype |
The sum total of all genes a person inherits: includes characteristics carried by a recessive genes but not expressed |
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Genetic Code |
Ensures genetic continuity across the species and genetic diversity within the species |
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DNA |
Molecules containing genetic information |
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Psychological |
Emotion personality and relationships with prices ad community |
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Cognitive |
Thought process, perpetual abilities and language mastery |
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Andragogy |
Learn on your own. Self directed |
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Case Study |
Focuses on life history attitudes and behavior of a single person or group |
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Extrinsic |
Rewards or motivation that comes from the environment |
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Conditioning |
Particular response comes to be triggered by a particular stimulus |
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Developmental Theory |
A systematic set of hypothesis and principles that attempts to explain development |
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Scientific Method |
The sequence and procedures of scientific investigation designed to reduce subjective reasoning |
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Dependent Variable |
The variable that is changed by someone in an experiment |