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Gross Motor Skills |
Walking, hopping, running, increased ability with steps |
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Fine Motor Skills |
Ability to pick up and manipulate tiny objects increases; dominant hand preference appears |
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Average caloric requirement |
1,700 calories per day |
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Criteria for energy needs in children |
Age, sex, size, and physical activity level |
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Leading causes of death in young children |
Accidents, cancer, cardiovascular disease |
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Egocentrism |
"self-centered"; as in, situations can only be viewed by the child through his/her own perspective. |
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Animism |
The belief that inanimate objects have human qualities |
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Reversibility |
A mental process which allows the reversal of a chain of events or restoration of a changed state of incidents to the initial condition; impossible for children at this stage |
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Centration |
Centering attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all others |
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Conservation |
The awareness that altering an object's or a substance's appearance does not change its basic properties; impossible for children at this stage |
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Zone of Proximal Development |
Vygotsky's range of tasks that are too difficult for a child to master alone, but that can be learned with guidance or assistance from adults or skilled children |
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Private Speech |
Internal language for self-regulation |
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Theory of Mind |
The awareness of one's own mental processes as well as the thought processes of others |
