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1
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The stable, early appearing individual variations in behavioral dimensions (activity level, rhythmicity, approach and withdrawal, adaptability, threshold of responsiveness, intensity of reaction, quality of mood, distractibility, attention span and persistence)

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Temperament

2
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The relationship that allows securely attached children to use their parents to reestablish a sense of well being after a stressful experience.

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Attachment

3
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What concept states that children learn best when new challenges are just slightly harder than what they have already mastered (actual and potential points of development)?

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Zone of proximal development (Vygotsky)

4
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What concept proposes that a child’s status at any point in time is a function of the interaction between biologic and social influences?

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Transaction model

5
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What concept states that a child passes through successive stages of developmental progress?

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Concept of developmental line

6
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At what age can a child show an understanding of love?

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18 months

7
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What type of attachment does a child who represses his/her distress and ignores his/her caregiver both when she leaves and returns?

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Avoidant

8
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What type of attachment does a child who is very distressed and takes a long time to be comforted?

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Anxious

9
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What theory states that even when babies are born with innate theories of the world (nativism), those theories may be radically transformed as children learn more about that world (empiricism)?

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Theory theory

10
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What is the mechanism of fetal programmming wherein 2 genes are inherited but 1 is turned off through environmentally induced epigenetic modification?

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Epigenetic imprinting

11
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When does neural plasticity peak?

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First year

12
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What do you call the infant’s preferential turning toward his/her mother’s voice?

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Recognition memory

13
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When is the period of fastest postnatal growth?

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1st month. 30g/day

14
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When does crying normally peak?

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6 weeks. Up to 3 hrs/day

15
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When does voluntary/social smile appear?

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2 months. Also with increasing eye contact (parents sense of being loved reciprocally).

16
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When does the birthweight double?

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4 months

17
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At how many months old does an infant “hatch” socially (become more interested in a wider world)?

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4 months

18
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When does the birthweight triple?

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1st birthday. Also length increase by 50%.

19
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When does constancy/object permanence appear?

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9 months

20
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When does stranger anxiety occur?

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9 months

21
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When does tantrums make its first appearance?

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9 months (autonomy & mastery motivation vs. parental control)

22
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When does the first true word appear?

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9 months. Along with object permanence

23
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How many months old can an infant be able to sit without head lag?

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3 months

24
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How many months old can a child start to run?

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16 months

25
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How many months old can an infant grasp a rattle for object use?

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3.5 months

26
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How many months can a child start to turn pages of a book?

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12 months

27
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How many months old can a child start to scribble?

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13 months

28
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How many months old can a child start to use objects in combination such as building tower of 2 cubes?

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15 months

29
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How many months old does a child have visual, gross and fine motor coordination (eg. Builds tower of 6 cubes)?

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22 months

30
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How many months old does a child response ro nonverbal tone (eg. Inhibits to no)?

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7 months

31
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How many months old does a child follow a one step command with gesture?

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7 months

32
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How many months old does a child follow a one step command without gesture?

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10 months

33
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How many months old can a child start to point to objects?

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10 months

34
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How many months old can a child speak 4-6 words?

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15 months

35
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How many months ild can a child speak 10-15 words?

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18 months

36
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How many months old can a child speak 2 word sentences?

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19 months. beginning grammatization. corresponds with 50 word vocabulary

37
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How many months can a child bang 2 cubes?

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8 months

38
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What type of play does a 12 month old child have?

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Egocentric symbolic play

39
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How many months old is a child who plays pretend with a doll?

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17 months.

Also uses stick to reach objects.

40
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How many months old is an infant who can follow a moving object 180 degrees?

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2 months

41
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How many months old is a child who is able to point to body parts?

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15 months

42
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How many months old does rapprochement (increasing clinginess) occur?

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18 months