List of Terms
- developmental trajectories
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Developmental progressions are the skills, behaviors, and knowledge that children demonstrate as they move toward goals in different age ranges.
- sensitive period
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A sensitive period is a period when a child is more sensitive to specific experiences. During this period, those experiences can cause important changes in the child’s development.
- social referencing
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As infants get older and move into the toddlerhood stage, they begin to establish relationships with adults as resources in their environment. They will reference adults as sources of social information. See more at 6-1 Early Social and Emotional Development: Relationships
- webbook
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A Pressbooks webbook is a website instead of a file. Webbooks can be accessed from any device with an internet connection.
The webbook includes the navigation arrows attached to the bottom of the page to navigate backward or forward within the website. At the middle of the page bottom is an arrow that points upward to bring you back to the top of the page.
See more at The Pressbooks Reading Interface.
