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| 5. | The understanding that matter can change in appearance without changing in quantity. |
| 6. | The period when toddlers experience rapid vocabulary growth typically beginning between 16 and 24 months. (2 Words) |
| 8. | A pattern of attachment in which an infant readily separates from the parent, seeks proximity when stressed, and uses the parent as a safe base for exploration. (2 Words) |
| 9. | Combination of gestures and single words that convey more meaning than just the word alone. |
| 11. | The ability to correctly label oneself and others as male or female. (2 Words) |
| 13. | The young child's belief that everyone sees and experiences the world the way she does. |
| 17. | A style of parenting that is low in nurturance and communication, but high in control and maturity demands. (3 Words) |
| 18. | The ability to identify with another Preston's emotional state. |
| 19. | Piaget's first stage of development in which infants use information from their senses and motor actions to learn about the world. (2 Words) |
| 23. | Behavior that is atypical for one's own sex typical for the opposite sex. (3 Words) |
| 24. | An understanding that enables a child to look at a situation from another person's point of view and determine what kind of information will cause that person to have a false belief. (2 Words) |
| 27. | An innate language processor, theorized by Chomsky, that contains the basic grammatical structure of all human language. (3 Words) |
| 28. | A range, established by one's genes, between upper and lower boundaries for traits such as intelligence; one's environment determines where, within those limits, one will be. (2 Words) |
| 29. | Piaget's second stage of cognitive development, during which children become proficient in the use of symbols in thinking and communicating but still have difficulty thinking logically. (2 Words) |
| 30. | A pattern of responding to people and objects in the environment. |
| 32. | The deliberate experimentation with variations of previous actions that occurs in substage 5 of the sensorimotor period. (3 Words) |
| 33. | The understanding that objects continue to exist when they can't be seen. (2 Words) |
| 36. | The period during which the grammatical features of children's speech become more similar to those of an adult speech. (2 Words) |
| 38. | The ability to take in information and use it to adapt to the environment. |
| 39. | The process of drawing conclusion about the self based on comparison to others. (2 Words) |
| 42. | Children's understanding of the sound patterns of the language they are acquiring. (2 Words) |
| 43. | The emotional tie to a parent experienced by an infant, from which the child derives security. |
| 45. | The process of experiences on the basis of temperament. (2 Words) |
| 46. | An infant's use of others' facial expressions as a guide to his or her own emotions. (2 Words) |
| 47. | Simple two-word sentences that usually include a noun and a verb. (2 Words) |
| 48. | A form of aggression in which electronic communication are used to intentionally inflict harm on others (2 Words) |
| 49. | Expressions of discomfort, such as crying, when separated from an attachment figure. (2 Words) |
| 50. | A brain structure that is important in learning |
| 51. | The degree to which an infant's temperament is adaptable to his or her environment, and vise-versa. |
| 52. | A set of behaviors that usually lead to being accepted as a play partner or friend by peers. (2 Words) |
| 53. | Knowledge about how the mind thinks and the ability to control and reflect on one's own thought processes. |