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Prenatal Ans✓✓✓conception to birth
Infant Ans✓✓✓Birth to about 24 months
Early childhood Ans✓✓✓2-6 years
middle childhood Ans✓✓✓The period between early childhood and
early adolescence, approximately from ages 6 to 11.
adolescence Ans✓✓✓the transition period from childhood to adulthood,
extending from puberty to independence
Multifinality Ans✓✓✓similiar initial conditions may lead to different
outcomes
Social Policy Ans✓✓✓a government's course of action designed to
promote the welfare of its citizens
Piaget's Theory Ans✓✓✓Theory stating that children actively construct
their understanding of the world and go through four stages of cognitive
development.
, sensorimotor stage Ans✓✓✓in Piaget's theory, the stage during which
infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and
motor activities
Preoperational stage Ans✓✓✓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
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
Vgotsky's theory Ans✓✓✓emphasizes how culture and social
interaction guide cognitive development
Social Cognitive theory Ans✓✓✓behavior, environment, and cognition
are the key factors in development
Ethology Ans✓✓✓stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by
biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive
periods
Ethnic Gloss Ans✓✓✓Use of an ethnic label such as African American
or Latino in a superficial way that portrays an ethnic group as being
more homogeneous than it really is.