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Gross motor skills in early childhood - ANSWER throwing a ball, hopping, catching a
ball, running, and kicking a ball
Fine motor skills in early childhood - ANSWER cutting paper, pasting, pouring, building
blocks, lacing, cutting along a line, writing a name, tracing, coloring
2-3 years gross & fine motor skills - ANSWER gross: jump, throw/catch ball
Fine: zip/unzip, use a spoon
3-4 years gross & fine motor skills - ANSWER gross: walk upstairs alternating both feet,
walk downstairs one foot leading, throw/catch ball
Fine: scissors, button
4-5 years gross & fine motor skills - ANSWER gross: walk upstairs and downstairs
alternating feet, catch ball with hands
Fine: use a fork, cut on a line with scissors
5-6 years gross & fine motor skills - ANSWER gross: skip, ride a bike
Fine: tie shoes, write numbers & basic words
Brain development in early childhood - ANSWER further development of neurons at
synapses, myelination, synaptic pruning
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, Preoperational stage - ANSWER in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7
years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the
mental operations of concrete logic
Substages of preoperational stage - ANSWER symbolic function and intuitive thought
Symbolic function substage - ANSWER (ages 2-4( Child continues to develop the ability
to mentally represent an object that is not present, working towards abstract thought but
not there yet
At the beginning of the preoperational stage, how do children often play? -
ANSWER parallel play (in same room as other children but play next to them rather
than with them)
What is the main function of a child's speech during the preoperational stage? -
ANSWER to externalize the child's thinking rather than to communicate with others.
Egocentrism - ANSWER the preoperational child's difficulty of taking another's point of
view
Animism - ANSWER a child's belief that inanimate objects can have human-like
qualities such as feelings
Intuitive thought - ANSWER (ages 4-7) children start to develop reasoning ability to
help fulfill the desire to answer questions
Centration - ANSWER in Piaget's theory, the tendency of a young child to focus only on
one feature of an object while ignoring other relevant features
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Gross motor skills in early childhood - ANSWER throwing a ball, hopping, catching a
ball, running, and kicking a ball
Fine motor skills in early childhood - ANSWER cutting paper, pasting, pouring, building
blocks, lacing, cutting along a line, writing a name, tracing, coloring
2-3 years gross & fine motor skills - ANSWER gross: jump, throw/catch ball
Fine: zip/unzip, use a spoon
3-4 years gross & fine motor skills - ANSWER gross: walk upstairs alternating both feet,
walk downstairs one foot leading, throw/catch ball
Fine: scissors, button
4-5 years gross & fine motor skills - ANSWER gross: walk upstairs and downstairs
alternating feet, catch ball with hands
Fine: use a fork, cut on a line with scissors
5-6 years gross & fine motor skills - ANSWER gross: skip, ride a bike
Fine: tie shoes, write numbers & basic words
Brain development in early childhood - ANSWER further development of neurons at
synapses, myelination, synaptic pruning
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, Preoperational stage - ANSWER in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7
years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the
mental operations of concrete logic
Substages of preoperational stage - ANSWER symbolic function and intuitive thought
Symbolic function substage - ANSWER (ages 2-4( Child continues to develop the ability
to mentally represent an object that is not present, working towards abstract thought but
not there yet
At the beginning of the preoperational stage, how do children often play? -
ANSWER parallel play (in same room as other children but play next to them rather
than with them)
What is the main function of a child's speech during the preoperational stage? -
ANSWER to externalize the child's thinking rather than to communicate with others.
Egocentrism - ANSWER the preoperational child's difficulty of taking another's point of
view
Animism - ANSWER a child's belief that inanimate objects can have human-like
qualities such as feelings
Intuitive thought - ANSWER (ages 4-7) children start to develop reasoning ability to
help fulfill the desire to answer questions
Centration - ANSWER in Piaget's theory, the tendency of a young child to focus only on
one feature of an object while ignoring other relevant features
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