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Growth
- Refers to an increase in physical size.
* It represents quantitative changes such as height, weight, blood pressure, and number
of words in the child's vocabulary.
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Development
- Refers to a qualitative increase in capability or function.
* Developmental skills, such as the ability to sit without support or to throw a ball
overhand, unfold in a complex manner influenced by the relationship between the child's
innate capabilities and the stimuli and support provided in the environment.
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Cephalocaudal development
- Proceeds from the head downward through the body and toward the feet.
* For example, at birth an infant's head is much larger proportionately than the trunk or
extremities.
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Proximodistal development
- Proceeds from the center of the body outward toward the extremities.
* For example, infants are first able to control the trunk, then the arms; only later are fine
motor movements of the fingers possible.
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Anticipatory guidance
- Predict upcoming developmental tasks or needs of a child and to perform appropriate
teaching related to them.
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Defense mechanisms
- Techniques used by the ego to unconsciously change reality, thereby protecting itself
from excessive anxiety.
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* including regression to earlier stages and repression or forgetting of painful
experiences such as child abuse (Table 4-2).
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Assimilation
- The process of incorporating new experiences into an individual's cognitive
awareness; the process of incorporating traits of the new culture within one's practice.
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Accommodation
- The process of changing one's cognitive structures to include data from recent
experiences.
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Object permanence
- (the knowledge that something continues to exist even when out of sight) begins when
the infant remembers where a hidden object is likely to be found;
* it is no longer "out of sight, out of mind."
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Nature
- Refers to the genetic or hereditary capability of an individual.
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Nuture