Psych140 Module 4 - Early Childhood -
Portage Learning
gross motor skills in early childhood - ✅✅-throwing a ball, hopping, catching a ball,
running, and kicking a ball
fine motor skills in early childhood - ✅✅ -cutting paper, pasting, pouring, building
blocks, lacing, cutting along a line, writing a name, tracing, coloring
2-3 years gross & fine motor skills - ✅✅-gross: jump, throw/catch ball
fine: zip/unzip, use a spoon
3-4 years gross & fine motor skills - ✅✅
-gross: walk upstairs alternating both feet,
walk downstairs one foot leading, throw/catch ball
fine: scissors, button
4-5 years gross & fine motor skills - ✅✅ -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 - ✅✅-gross: skip, ride a bike
fine: tie shoes, write numbers & basic words
brain development in early childhood - ✅✅-further development of neurons at
synapses, myelination, synaptic pruning
preoperational stage - ✅✅ -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 - ✅✅-symbolic function and intuitive thought
symbolic function substage - ✅✅ -(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? -
-parallel play (in same room as other children but play next to them rather than
with them)
Portage Learning
gross motor skills in early childhood - ✅✅-throwing a ball, hopping, catching a ball,
running, and kicking a ball
fine motor skills in early childhood - ✅✅ -cutting paper, pasting, pouring, building
blocks, lacing, cutting along a line, writing a name, tracing, coloring
2-3 years gross & fine motor skills - ✅✅-gross: jump, throw/catch ball
fine: zip/unzip, use a spoon
3-4 years gross & fine motor skills - ✅✅
-gross: walk upstairs alternating both feet,
walk downstairs one foot leading, throw/catch ball
fine: scissors, button
4-5 years gross & fine motor skills - ✅✅ -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 - ✅✅-gross: skip, ride a bike
fine: tie shoes, write numbers & basic words
brain development in early childhood - ✅✅-further development of neurons at
synapses, myelination, synaptic pruning
preoperational stage - ✅✅ -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 - ✅✅-symbolic function and intuitive thought
symbolic function substage - ✅✅ -(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? -
-parallel play (in same room as other children but play next to them rather than
with them)
