5.7 Key Terms

amygdala

animism

balanced bilingual

centration

conservation

corpus callosum

egocentrism

fast-mapping

focus on appearance

Head Start

hippocampus

hypothalamus

injury control (or harm reduction)

irreversibility

just right

lateralization

limbic system

Montessori schools

myelination

overimitation

overregularization

perseveration

preoperational intelligence

primary prevention

Reggio Emilia

scaffolding

secondary prevention

static reasoning

symbolic thought

tertiary prevention

theory of mind

theory-theory

zone of proximal development (ZPD)

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