Two-year-old Jorden loves to pretend to cook. He uses pots and pans in a playset and makes eggs and bacon for breakfast. Jorden is happy to leave the real cooking up to his mother, but the fact that he can use the pots and pans in his pretend play indicates that he is capable of

As Pete teeters about the room, he suddenly plops to the floor. Instantly, he looks to the adults in the room before emotionally responding. Pete is using social __________ to determine the feelings of the adults.

Radha is three years old and has proper nutrition and health care. What part of Radha’s body is growing the fastest during this period of development?

While 3-year-old Bijan was on vacation with his parents, he insisted on wearing only mismatched brightly colored socks with white sneakers. His parents got many looks from passersby, some positive and some not so positive. According to Erikson, because Bijan was able to express himself through his clothes, he should develop a sense of

During the preoperational stage, children’s use of __________ thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases.

Match the descriptions with the best-fitting category of temperament.

For the majority of individuals, the left hemisphere of the brain concentrates on tasks that necessitate

In the United States most variations in height and weight are the result of different people’s

__________ is at the heart of one of the major advances that occurs in the preoperational period: the increasingly sophisticated use of language.

Danny is fussy when he sees the small amount of ice cream in the big bowl. To him, it doesn’t seem like enough ice cream. His mother transfers the ice cream to a smaller bowl and Danny is now satisfied. This represents __________, a critical characteristic of the preoperational period.