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| sexual activity involving a child and an older person |
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| failure to meet a child's basic bodily needs, such as food, clothing, medical care, protection, and supervision |
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| objects used repeatedly by a child as bedtime companions |
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| repeated urination in clothing or in bed |
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| preference for using a particular hand |
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| failure to give a child emotional support, love, and affection |
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| nonphysical action that may damage children's behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or physical functioning |
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1. combinations of motor skills that permit increasingly complex activities 2. increasingly complex combinations of simpler, previously acquired skills, which permit a wider or more precise range of movement and more control of the environment |
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| physical skills that involve the samll muscles and eye-hand coordination |
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| action taken to endanger a child involving potential injury to the body |
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| physical skills that involve the large muscles |
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| condition showing symptoms of physical abuse of a child |
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| In piagets theory, the second major stage of cognitive development, in which children become more sophisticated in their use of symbolic thought but are not yet able to use logic |
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| in Piaget's terminology, ability to use mental representations (words, numbers, or images) to which a child has attached meaning |
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| In Piaget's theory, a limitation of preoperational thought that leads the child to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others, often leading to illogical conclusions. |
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| In Piaget's terminology, to think simultaneously about several aspects of a situation; characteristic of operational thought |
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| In Piaget's terminology, awareness that two objects that are equal according to a certain measure remain equal in the face of perceptual alteration so long as nothing has been added to or taken away from either object |
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| in Piaget's terminology, a limitation on preoperationl thinking consisiting of failure to understand that an preoperational can go in two or ore directions |
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| tendency to attribute life to objects that are not alive |
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| ability to put oneself in another person's place and feel what that person feels |
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| in Piaget's terminology, inability to consider another person's point of view; a characteristic of preoperational thought |
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| in Piaget's terminology, a preoperational child's tendency to mentally link particular experiences, whether or not there is logically a causal relationship |
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| awareness and understanding of mental processes |
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| process by which a child absorbs the meaning of a new word after hearing it only once or twice in conversation |
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| the practical knowledge needed to use language for communicative purposes |
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| speech intended to be understood by a listener |
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| talking aloud to oneself with no intent to communicate |
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| concrete stage (operations) |
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| thrid stage of Piageten cognitive development during which children develop logical but not abstract thinking |
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| in Piaget's theory, the first stage in cognitive development, during which infants learn through their developing senses and motor activity |
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