Child Development and Disorders: Growth Hormone Deficiency and Piaget's Cognitive Stages

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What is the term for the absence or deficiency of growth hormone produced by the pituitary gland to stimulate the body to grow?

What is the condition characterized by extreme daytime sleepiness?

What is the term for difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep?

What condition results from the failure to eat adequate amounts of quality meats and dark green vegetables?

During which stage (2 - 7 years) do children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings, forming stable concepts and beginning to reason?

What is the beginning of the ability to reconstruct in thought what has been established in behavior?

What substage (2 - 4 years) involves the young child gaining the ability to mentally represent an object that is not present, expanding the child's mental world?

What is the inability to distinguish between one's own perspective and someone else's perspective called?

What is the belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of action?

What substage (4 - 7 years) involves children beginning to use primitive reasoning and wanting to know the answers to all sorts of questions?

What is the centering of attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all others called?

What is the awareness that altering an object's or substance's appearance does not change its basic properties?

What is the key difference between Piaget and Vygotsky's theories?

What is the range of tasks that are too difficult for the child to master alone but can be learned with guidance and assistance from adults or more skilled children?

What is the level of skill reached by the child working independently called?

What is the level of additional responsibility the child can accept with the assistance of an able instructor?

What is the term for changing the level of support in ZPD, where a more skilled person adjusts the amount of guidance to fit the child's current performance?

What is the use of language for self-regulation called?

What is it called when children have internalized their egocentric speech, which becomes their thoughts?

What approach emphasizes the social contexts of learning and the construction of knowledge through social interaction?

What involves action planning, allocating attention to goals, error detection and compensation, monitoring progress on tasks, and dealing with novel or difficult circumstances?

What is focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event, or other aspect of the environment (vigilance) called?

What is the retention of information over time, a central process in children's cognitive development?

What type of memories do we not deliberately remember or reflect on consciously?

What is the act of consciously or intentionally retrieving past experiences called?

What type of memory involves retaining information for up to 30 seconds if there is no rehearsal of the information?

What involves memory of significant events and experiences in one's life?

What is the umbrella-like concept that consists of a number of higher-level cognitive processes linked to the development of the brain's prefrontal cortex, managing one's thoughts to engage in goal-directed behavior and self-control?

What is the awareness of one's own mental processes and others', described as 'a thinker who is trying to explain, predict, and understand people's thoughts, feelings, and utterances'?

What involves children's ability to make an initial connection between a word and its referent after only limited exposure to the word?

What educational approach emphasizes the education of the whole child and concern for his or her physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development, with an emphasis on the process of learning rather than what is learned?

What is the philosophy of education in which children are given considerable freedom and spontaneity in choosing activities?

Who was the Italian physician-turned-educator who at the beginning of the twentieth century crafted a revolutionary approach to young children's education?

What is based on knowledge of the typical development of children within an age span, as well as the uniqueness of the child, emphasizing the importance of creating settings that encourage active learning and reflect children's interests and capabilities?

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