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Class: HLTH - Child Growth and Development; Subject: Health; University: Tallahassee Community College; Term: Forever 1989;
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Bone age is the degree of maturation of a child's bones. As a person grows from fetal life through childhood, puberty, and finishes growth as a young adult, the bones of the skeleton change in size and shape. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Gross motor skills are the abilities usually acquired during infancy and early childhood as part of a child's motor development. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Fine motor skill is the coordination of small muscle movements which occur in body parts such as the fingers, usually in coordination with the eyes. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Piaget's theory of cognitive development is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence, first developed by Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980). TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Centration is the tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others. A term introduced by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) to refer to the tendency of young children to focus attention on only one salient aspect of an object, situation, or problem at a time, to the exclusion of other potentially relevant aspects.
Egocentrism is characterized by preoccupation with one's own internal world. Egocentrics regard themselves and their own opinions or interests as being the most important or valid. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 Self-esteem is a term used in psychology to reflect person's overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 Private speech is speech spoken to oneself for communication, self-guidance, and self-regulation of behavior. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 Empathy is the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 Altruism or selflessness is the principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures and a core aspect of various religious traditions and secular worldviews, though the concept of "others" toward whom concern should be directed can vary among cultures and religions.