college
1. Growth spurt - ANS -a period during which growth advances at a
dramatically rapid rate compared with other periods
2. Gross motor skills - ANS -physical abilities involving large body
movements, such as walking and jumping
3. Fine motor skills - ANS -physical abilities involving small body
movements, especially of the hands and fingers, such as drawing
and picking up a coin
4. Reaction Time - ANS -the amount of time taken to respond to a
specific stimulus
,5. ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) - ANS -a
psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one
or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention,
hyperactivity, and impulsivity
6. Hyperactivity - ANS -a condition characterized by excessive
restlessness and movement
7. Stimulants(Ritalin) - ANS -Drugs that increase the activity of
nervous system.
8. Dyslexia - ANS -impairment of the ability to read, word reversal,
mirror reading.
,9. Learning disability - ANS -when a child with normal intelligence
has difficulty mastering at least one academic subject, language
and speech
10. Mainstreaming - ANS -placing disabled children in
classrooms with nondisabled children
11. Concrete operational stage - ANS -in Piaget's theory, the
stage of cognitive development during which children gain the
mental operations that enable them to think logically about
concrete events
12. Decentration - ANS -simultaneous focusing on more than
one aspect or dimension of a problem or situation
, 13. Transitivity - ANS -the principle that if A>B and B>C, then
A>C
14. Seriation - ANS -placing objects in an order or series
according to a property or trait
15. Preconventional level - ANS -according to Kohlberg, a
period during which moral judgments are based largely on
expectations of rewards or punishments
16. Conventional level - ANS -according to Kohlberg, a period
during which moral judgments largely reflect social rules and
conventions