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| A greater-than 20 percent increase over agerage body weight, based on an individual's age, sex, and physical build. |
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| Friendly chasing and play-fighting that emerges in the preschool years. |
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| Concrete operational Stage |
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| A major turning point in cognitive devleopment, throught is far more logical, flexible, and organized than it was earlier. |
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| The capacity to think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction, returning to the starting point. |
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| The ability to order items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight. |
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| Seriate mentally an ability |
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| their mental representations of familiar large-scale spaces, such as neighborhood or school. |
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A memory strategy that involves repeating information |
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| Grouping related items together |
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| Creating a relationship, or shared meaning, between two or more pieces of information that are not members of the same category. |
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| Cognitive self-regulation |
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| the process of continuously monitoring progress toward a goal, checking outcomes, and redirecting successful efforts. |
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| The ability to reflect on and manipulate the sound structure of spoken language, as indicated by sensitivity to changes in sounds within words and to incorrect pronounciation. |
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