the fertilized egg (zygote) becomes an embryo and then a Fetus.

Maturation refers to the genetically programmed events and timeline of normal development, such as crawling before walking and babbling before language development

Neural development in infancy is rapid, characterized by synaptic pruning and sensitive periods. Poverty can drastically impact neural development.

mental abilities such as thinking, perceiving, and remembering

characterized by the emergence of goal-directed behavior and object permanence,

egocentrism, animistic thinking, centration, and irreversibility

example could be a child believing that the sidewalk was mad and made them fall down,

For example, focusing only on the height of the container rather than both the height and width when determining what has the biggest volume

An example might be that upon seeing his mother crying, a young child gives her his favorite stuffed animal to make her feel better.

For example, if a three-year-old boy sees someone flatten a ball of play dough, he will not understand that the dough can easily be reformed into a ball.

It may involve creating a new schema altogether, for example, a child may have a schema for birds (feathers, flying, etc.) and then they see a plane, which also flies, but would not fit into their bird schema.

A child sees a new type of dog that they've never seen before and immediately points to the animal and says, "Dog!"