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| Being able to use both left and right hands |
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| The belief that inanimate objects have life like qualities such as thoughts, wishes, feelings and intentions |
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| The large bundle of fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the brain |
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| Pre-schoolers store their knowledge into "nests" these are categorized by basic, general , and subcategories. |
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| A principle stating that the lasst number in a counting sequence indicates the quanitity of intems in a set |
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| Aids in balance and body control and contributes to dramatic gains in motor development. |
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| Preschoolers that live in stressful homes are smaller than others because they do not get enough attention |
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| The ability to understant another's emotional state and freel with that person or respond emotionally in a similar way |
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| The inability to distinguish the symbolic viewpoints of others from ones own |
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| Memory for everyday experiences |
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| A type of play involving pleasurable motor activity with or without objects Enables infants and toddlers to practice sensorimotor schemes |
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| Comes from the pituitary gland and is necessary for growth. |
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| Specialization of functions in the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex |
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| Type of play where children pretend acting out everyday and imaginary activities |
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| Spirited ambitious and and enterprising |
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| A principle specifying order more than and less than relationships between quanities |
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| The set of attributes abilities attitudes and values that an individual believes defines who he or she is |
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| The aspect of self concept that involves judgements about ones own worth and the feelings associated with those judgements |
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| Feelings of concern for anothers plight |
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| General discriptions of what occus and whn it occurs in a particular situation A basic means through which children organzie and interpret repeated events |
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| a brain strunctue that maintains alertness and consciousness |
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| Thyroid Stimulating Hormone needed for nerve cell development in the brain |
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