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22 Cards in this Set
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Corpus callosum |
The membrane that connects the right and the left hemispheres of the cerebral cortex |
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Lateralization |
The process through which brain functions are divided between the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex |
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Hippocampus |
A brain structure that is important in learning |
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Handedness |
A strong preference for using one hand or the other that develops between 3 and 5 years of age |
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Semiotic (symbolic) function |
The understanding thst one object or behavior can represent another |
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Preoperational stage |
Piaget's second stage of cognitive development, during which children become proficient in the use of symbols in thinking and communicating but still have difficulty thinking logically |
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Egocentrism |
A young child's belief that everyone sees and experiences the world the way she does |
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Centration |
A young child's tendency to think of the world in terms of one variable at a time |
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Conservation |
The understanding that matter can change in apperance without changong the quantity |
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Theory of mind |
A set of ideas constructed by a child or an adult to explain other people's ideas, beliefs, desires, and behavior |
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False-belief principle |
An understanding that enables a child to look at a situation from another persons point of view and determine what kind of information will cause that person to have to a false belief |
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Short-term storage space (STSS) |
neo-Piagetian theorist Robbie Case's term for the working memory |
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Operational effeciency |
A neo-Piagetian term that refers to the maximum number of schemes that can be processed in working memory at one time |
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Metamemory |
Knowledge about how memory works and the ability to control and reflect on one's own memory function |
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Metacognition |
Knowledge abput how the mind thinks and the ability to control and reflect on one's own thought processes |
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Fast-mapping |
The ability to categorically link new words to real-world referents |
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Grammar explosion |
The period during when the grammatical features of children's speech become more similar to those of adult speech |
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Overregularization |
Attachment of regular inflections to irregular words, such as the substitution of "goed" for went |
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Phonological awareness |
Children's understanding of the sound patterns of the language they are aquiring |
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Invented spelling |
A strategy young children with good phonolpgical awareness skills use when they write |
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Intelligence quotient |
The ratio of mental age to chronological age; also, a general term for any kind of score derived from an intelligence test |
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Reaction range |
A range, established by ones genes, between upper and lower boundaries for traits such as intelligence; one's environment determines where, within those limits, one will be. |