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Avg Child grows 2 1/2 inches in height
Gains 5-7 pounds
Avg Child grows ____ inches in height
Gains ____ pounds
3-6 years the most rapid growth takes place in prefrontal lobe, Prefrontal cortex
3-6 years the most rapid growth takes place in _____, ________
Myelination
Process where axons are covered and insulated with layer of fat cells.
Increases speed in which info travels through nervous system
Preoperational stage (2-7)
Children begin to represent the world with words/images, drawings and symbolic thought goes beyond simple connections of sensory info and physical action.
Stable concepts formed, mental reasoning emerges, egocentrism present, magical beliefs constructed.
Operations
Piagets theory, these are internalized, reversable sets of actions that allow children to do mentally what they formally did physically
Symbolic function substage (2-4)
First substage of preoperational thought. Child gains the ability to mentally represent an object that is not present
Egocentrism
Inability to distinguish between ones own perspective and someone elses.
Animism
Belief that inanimate objects have life like qualities and are capable of action
Intuitive thought stage (4-7)
2nd stage of preoperational thought, in which children begin to use primitive reasoning and want to know the answers to all sorts of questions.
"Why"
Limitations: centration, conservation
Centration (Piaget)
Focusing attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all others
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