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37 Cards in this Set
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Schemes
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Piaget's theory, actions or mental representations that organize knowledge
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Assimilation
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using current schemes to interpret the world
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Accommodation
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Piagetian concept of adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences
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Equilibration
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A mechanism that Piaget proposed to explain how children shift from one stage of thought to the next
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Sensorimotor stage
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Piaget's stage that lasts from birth to two years of age - infants construct an understanding of the world through sensory experiences and motor actions
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Object permanence
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understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they cannot directly be seen, heard or touched
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A-not-B error
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Erro that occurs when infants make the mistake of selecting the familiar hiding place rather than the new hiding place
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Core Knowledge perspective
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infants are born with domain-specific innate knowledge systems
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What is infantile amnesia?
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The inability to have memories before the age of 2 or 3 because the brain is not developed enough
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Deferred imitation
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the ability to copy or imitate behavior of models who are not present
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When do babies first coo?
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2 to 4 months
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Telegraphic speech
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short and precise words without grammatical markers
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Aphasia
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A loss or impairment of language ability caused by brain damage
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Why is child-directed speech important?
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It helps capture the infant's attention and maintain communication
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Adaptation
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building schemes through direct interaction with the world
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Organization
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new schemes are rearranged and linked with other schemes to create a interconnected cognitive system
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goal-directed behavior
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coordinating schemes deliberately to solve simple problems
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mental representations
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internal depictions of information that the mind can manipulate
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make-believe play
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children act out everyday imaginary activities
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mental strategies
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used to operate on and transform information inorder to retain it
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sensory register
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sights and sounds are represented directly and stored briefly
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short term memory
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actively apply mental strategies as we work on a limited amount of information
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central executive memory
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directs the flow of information
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long-term memory
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permanent knowledge base
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recognition
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noticing a stimulus is identical or similar to one previously experienced
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recall
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remembering something not present
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autobiographical memory
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meaningful one time events that we remember
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HOME
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home observation for measurement of the environment
gather info about the quality of childrens home lives |
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language aqusition device
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innate system that contains a universal grammar or set of rules common to all languages. it enables children to speak in a rule oriented fashion once they know enough words
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cooing
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"oo" sounding noises
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babbling
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repeated consonant-vowel in long strings
ie: babababa |
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joint attention
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child attends to the same object or event as the caregiver
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underextentsion
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application of words in a narrow fashion
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overextenstion
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application of words in a much to broad manner
"car" for buses trains etc |
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referential style
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words that refer to objects
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expressive style
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use of more social formulas and pronouns
"thank you" "done" "I want" |
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child-directed-speech
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stupid voice you talk to kids in, repeat new words to them, encourage them to say new words
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