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Conception
At this time, the sperm and ovum come together to create the zygote, also known as fertilization.
Domain: Physical
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Prenatal: Germinal Stage
Germinal Stage: A development in which the zygote divides and blastocyst travels to uterus. Organism contains 100-150 cells after one week.
Domain: Physical
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Prenatal: Embryonic Stage
Embryonic Stage: The stage following the Germinal Stage in which the organism is now called an embryo, and has begun to develop the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm. The embryo has what looks likes a tail and gills, but otherwise looks human.
Domain: Physical
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Prenatal: Fetal Stage
Fetal Stage: This is the time frame between eight weeks to the birth of the child, the time when the fetus (as it is now called) is most easily recognized as human. It will grow twenty times bigger in length, and half of the fetus will be its head at two months. The weight also increaseds rapidly, from four ounces at four months, to seven pounds at birth (on average).
Domain: Physical
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Birth
Birth The baby is born, nine months later. The babyis covered in vernix, greasy substance that helps with birth. The baby also has lanugo, dark fuzz that will naturally fall off.
Domain: Physical
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Infancy: Babbling
Babbling: At around two or three months old, an infant begins to make meaningless speech-like sounds, and continues to do so until they are about one. They make these sounds repeatedly, changing their pitch as they go. There are only vowel sounds at first, consonants are added at about five months of age
Domain: Cognitive
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Infancy: Sitting Up
Sitting Up: At 5.9 months, an infant can now sit up without the help of his/her parent.
Domain: Physical
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Infancy: Object Permanence
Object Permanence: At eight to twelve months old, an infant starts to understand that objects and people still exist even if the infant cannot see them. They will reach for a toy that is hidden under a cloth or bigger item.
Domain: Cognitive
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Infancy: Crawling
Crawling: Infants can begin to crawl around eight to ten months of age, and this is a good show of their gross motor skills that will soon help them develop their fine motor skills.
Domain: Physical
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Infancy: First Word
First Word: Between ten to fourteen months (sometimes nine months), an infant will say his/her first word. The word is only counted if the infant consistently uses it to address one person, event, or object. By fifteen months, the infant knows about ten words.
Domain: Cognitive
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Infancy: Walking
Walking: Most infants can walk by the time they are one, they begin learning to walk around nine months old.
Domain: Physical
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Infancy: Grasping
Grasping: At 3.3 months old, an infant can now grasp objects.
Domain: Physical/Cognitive
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Toddlerhood:
Stairs: At about three years old, a toddler can walk up a stairway (climb up short distances) by themselves.
Domain: Physical
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Toddlerhood: Functional Play
Functional Play: At the age of three, a child can engage in simple and repetitive activities that can involve toys or physical movements (e.g. skipping, jumping, rolling). At this time, the play is done for the sake of being active.
Domain: Social
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Toddlerhood: Advanced Gross Motor Skills
Advanced Gross Motor Skills: By the age of five, a child now has enough accuracy to throw a ring and have it land on a peg about five feet away. He/She can also throw a ball well enough for another friend to catch it.
Domain: Physical
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Early Years: Cooperative Play
Cooperative Play: Around the preschool age, children finally begin to play together, not just apart or close together. They learn to take turns, play games, even come up with contests.
Domain: Social
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Early Years: Language Development
Language Development: By the time children are in preschool, their language skills have improved dramatically. They know thousands of combinations of words, and by the time they are six, they know fourteen thousand words. In other words, they learn a new word every two hours, twenty four hours a day. They learn the concept of singular and plural nouns (as evident in the Wug Test), and they also understand possessive, third-person, and past-tense.
Domain: Cognitive
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Toddlerhood: Conservation
Conservation: At about age seven, a child is able to understand conservation of numbers, substance, volume, etc. For instance, before this age, they cannot understand that if a glass containing the same amount of liquid as another identical container is poured into a taller glass, that the amount of liquid is still the same. They will usually answer that the taller glass contains more liquid.
Domain: Cognitive
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Early Years: Cognitive Development
Cognitive Development: Between the ages of seven and twelve, children are now in the concrete operational stage, and can apply logical thinking. They can now understand conservation (second girl) and no longer think that breaking one cracker in half is equivalent to two whole crackers. They can also decenter, meaning they take all other aspects of a situation into consideration.
Domain: Cognitive
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Middle Childhood: Industry Versus Inferiority
Industry Versus Inferiority: This stage lasts from ages six to twelve, where children focus on efforts to meet the challenges presented to them by school, peers, parents, and the other complexities of the world.
Domain: Social
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Adolescence: Puberty
Puberty: At age ten, girls begin to grow breasts and pubic hair. Boys' penis an scrotum begin to grow at an accelerated rate at age twelve, adn will reach adult size about three or four years later. Their primary and secondary sex characteristics are developing.
Domain: Physical
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Early Years: Fine Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills: At this age, children have as much dexterity as an adult, they can tie their shoes, fasten buttons, use each hand independently, and manipulate objects. They can also type, write in cursive, and draw detailed pictures.
Domain: Physical
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Middle Childhood: Fine Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills: By the age of eleven or twelve, children can manipulate objects just about as well as and adult can.
Domain: Physical
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Middle Childhood: Concrete Operational Stage
Concrete Operational Stage: Between the ages of seven and twelve, chidlren can now understand conservation, and use logical processes to answer questions. They can also decenter.
Domain: Cognitive
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Adolescence: Spermarche & Menarche
Spermarche & Menarche: Boys usually achieve their first ejaculation at age thirteen (a year after they have started producing sperm), and girls' first periods vary girl to girl.
Domain: Physical
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Middle Childhood: Reading Development
Reading Development: By eighth grade, children have reached the fourth stage of reading development, where they can read and process information that reflects multiple points of view. They develop a more sophisticated understanding of reading materials.
Domain: Cognitive
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Adolescence: Identity-Versus-Identity-Confusion
Identity-Versus-Identity-Confusion: Around the time they enter high school, adolescents begin to try on different identities and join different cliques in order to try and figure out who they are. This is normal and it can be some time before they actually commit to an identity.
Domain: Social
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Adolescence: Autonomy
Autonomy: During the teenage years, adolescence begin to question their parents, and seek independence and control over their own lives. This is when parents begin to realize that their children can now make their own decisions (within reason).
Domain: Social
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Adolescence: Sexual Intercourse
Sexul Intercourse: Although the first time an individual has sex varies person to person, the average age in which an individual has sex for the first time is seventeen. Three quarters of adolescence have had sex by the age of twenty.
Domain: Social
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