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Cahpter 7 Cognitive Development Flashcards

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Stores info for only a brief time to allow the mind to process info and more into long-term memory

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Working Memory

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2 memory systems a systematic controlled for exact details and an automatic, intuitive memory for the gist or meaning of events

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Fuzzy Trace Theory

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The ability ti understand self and others as agents who act on the basis of their mental states,such as beliefs desires, emotions and intentions

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Theory of Mind

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And adults inability to remember experiences that happened before 3 years old

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Infantile amnesia

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Transformation processes through which new info is stored into long term memory

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Encoding Processes

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Repeating info to remember it

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Rehearsal

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Nearly permanent retention of memories

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Long-term memory

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The amount of info an individual can think about at one time

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Processing Capacity

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A coherent st of memories about ones life

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Autobiographical Memory

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The ability to switch focus as needed to compete a task

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Cognitive Flexibility

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The ability to think about an monitor ones thoughts and cognitive activities

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Metacognition

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The ability to stay on task and ignore distractions

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Inhibitory Control

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A memory strategy that involves creating extra connectors like images, or sentences, that can tie together

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Elaboration

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The efficiency with which one can perform cognitive task

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Information Processing Speed

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Doing several different activities at the same time, often involving several forms of media

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Multitasking

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16
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Memory for something you though happened but did not

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False Memories

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The capacity info that comes in through our senses to be retained for a very brief period of time in its raw form

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Sensory Memory

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The ability of the brain to coordinate attention and memory and control behavioral responses for the purpose of attaining a certain goal

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Executive Function

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Memory of the way common occurrences in ones life, such as grocery shopping

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Scripts

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Extreme difficulty with inattention impassivity or both

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Attention- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

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Tuning into certain things while tuning others out

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Selective Attention

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An attempt to resolve uncertainty to return to a comfortable state

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Equilibration

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Skills become so well practices that you can do them without much conscious thought

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Automaticity

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Talking to ones self, often out loud, to guide ones own actions

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Private Speech

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A state of confusion in which your schemas do not fit your experiences

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Disequilibrium

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An infants repetition of a reflective action that results in a pleasurable experience

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Circular Reaction

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Changing mental schemas so they fit new experiences

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Accommodation

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A test for object permanence in which an object is hidden under cloth A and then moved under cloth B

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A-not-B Task

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The reduction in the response to a stimulus that is repeated

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Habituation

30
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The ability to reverse mental operations

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Reversibility

31
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Basic quantity of something(Amount, volume, mass) remains the same regardless f changes in appearance

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Conservation

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1st stage in which infants learn through their senses and their actions on the world

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Sensorimotor Stage

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Piagets theory that cognitive development of knowledge is bases on both genetics( from biology and epistemology( a philosophical understanding of the nature of knowledge.

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Genetic- epistemology

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2nd stage in which children 2 and 7 do not yet have logical thought and instead think magically and egocentrically

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Preoperational stage

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The ability to organize objects into hierarchical conceptual categories

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Classification

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The understanding that objects still exist when an infant does not see them

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Object performance

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Research based on the finding that babies look longer at expected or surprising events

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Violation of expectation

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The belief that one is the center of other peoples attention

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Imaginary Audience

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Mental actions that follow systematic logical rules

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Operations

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Focusing on only one aspect of a situation

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Centration

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The ability to form hypothesis about how the world works and to reason logically about these hypothesis

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Hypothetico- deductive reasoning

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3rd stage in which children between 6 and 12 develop logical thinking but still cannot think abstractly

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Concrete operations

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The belief that you are in some way unique and different from all other people

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Personal Fable

44
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Infants understanding of the world through their action on it

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Motor Schema

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The theory that basic areas of knowledge are innate and built into the human brain

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Theory of core knowledge

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According to Vygotsky, this is what a kid cannot do on their own but with help

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Zone of proximal development

47
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The cognitive ability to consider multiple perspective and bring together seemingly contradictory info

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Postformal operations

48
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Maintaining focus over time

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Sustained attention

49
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The ability to think about more than one aspect of a situation at a time

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Decenter

50
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A cognitive framework that places concepts, objects, or experiences into categories of groups of associations

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Schema

51
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The thinking scientist use to test a hypothesis

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Scientific thinking

52
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The beginning form of logic developing during the preoperational stage

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Intuitive though

53
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Fitting new experiences into existing mental schemas

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Assimilation

54
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4th Stage in which people 12 and older think both logically and abstractly

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Formal operations

55
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The inability to see or understand things from someone else’s perspective

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Egocentrism

56
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adults support the childs learning by providing help to move the child just beyond this current level

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Scaffolding

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