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| establishes height and rate person grows to adult height |
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| chemicals released by glands into the bloodstream to act on body parts |
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| secrets GH(growth hormone) travels to liver, releases second hormone: somatomedin |
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| hormone released by the thyroid gland in neck, nerve cell development |
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| non-organic failure to thrive |
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| infant stops growing due to a lack of nurturing, attention, and stimulation as a result of poor parenting and caregiving |
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| chephalocaudal development |
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| top(head) to bottom(toes) *head and trunk develop first |
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| proximodistal development |
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| inside(trunk) to outside(extremities) |
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| gross to fine motor development |
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| large(trunk, arms, neck, legs) to small(fingers, toes, hands, eyes) |
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| principal of hierarchical integration |
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| individual motor skills develop seperately and later are integrated into more complex skills (ex: walking is mastered after crawling) |
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| principle of the independence of systems |
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| different body systems grow at different rates |
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| changes in physical development from one generation to the next |
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| organized pattern of thoughts |
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| assimilation(old info) + accomodation(change old info with new info) |
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| basic sounds of language, called phonemes, that can be combined to produce words and sentences |
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| smallest language unit that has meaning (the ending...ing/ed/es) |
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| rules that govern the meaning of words and sentences |
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| Ainsworth strange situation |
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| sequence of staged episodes that illustrate the strength of attachment between a child and his or her mother |
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