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Developmental milestones-19 to 24 months
Physical development
- Jumps, runs, and climbs
- Manipulates small objects with good coordination
Cognitive development
- Solves sensorimotor problems through representation
- Finds object moved while out of sight
- Engages in deferred imitation of actions an adult tries to produce, even if not fully realized
- Engages in make-believe play
- Sorts objects into categories more effectively
- Recall memory for people, places, and objects improves further
Social and emotional development
- Self-conscious emotions (shame, embarrassment, guilt, and pride) emerge
- Acquires a vocabulary of emotional terms
- Begins using language to assist with emotional selfregulation
- Begins to tolerate caregiver’s absences more easily
- Starts to use words to influence a playmate’s behavior
- Uses own name or personal pronoun to label image of self
- Categorizes the self and others on the basis of age, sex, physical characteristics, goodness and badness, and competencies
- Shows gender-stereotyped toy choices
- Self-control appears
Language development
- Vocabulary increases to 200 words
- Combines two words
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