856

Development And Maturation

Scope Note

Concepts and standards of physical, mental, and emotional behavior and development during infancy and childhood; data on infant behavior; methods of promoting and influencing growth (e.g., molding of head, magical rituals); adjustments to growth; data on maturation (e.g., age at creeping, standing, walking, talking, cooperation); attitudes toward and special treatment of development events (e.g., teething, growth of hair and nails, increases in weight and stature); reactions and adjustments to retardation and precocity; etc.

Broader Term
850 Infancy And Childhood
Related Terms
145 Ontogenetic Data
304 Body Alterations
852 Ceremonial During Infancy And Childhood
860 Socialization
870 Education
Use Fors
Age at crawling (developmental data)
Age at creeping (developmental data)
Age at standing (developmental data)
Age at talking (developmental data)
Age at teething (developmental data)
Age at walking (developmental data)
Change in stature (developmental event)
Change in weight (developmental event)
Cranial molding in infants
Development and maturation (ideas about)
Exceptional children
Growth (physiological, cultural concepts about)
Head deformation (method of influencing growth)
Life cycle (early development)
Maturation (cultural standards)
Mental development (cultural standards)
Mental retardation (reactions to)
Molding heads of infants (developmental changes)
Nails (growth, as a developmental event)
Precocious development (general)
Precocious development (ideas about)
Precocity (ideas about)
Stature and weight changes (cultural ideals)
Talking (cultural standards)
Teeth (eruption, as a developmental event)
Thumb sucking (interpretation)
Walking (age at)
Walking (cultural standards)
Identifier
856

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