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Chapter 2 Cognitive Development Flashcards

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Students should be taught in the magic middle or the place of the “match” where they are neither bored or frustrated

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Magic Middle

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Nerve cells that store and transfer information

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Neurons

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The tiny space between neurons-chemical messages are sent across these gaps

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Synapses

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Fitting new information into existing schemes

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Assimilation

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Mental systems of categories or perception and experiences

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Schemes

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The “out of balance” state that occurs when a person realizes their current ways of thinking are not working to solve a problem

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Disequilibrium

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Altering existing schemes or creating new ones in response to new information

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Accommodation

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Search for mental balance between cognitive schemes and information from the environment

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Equilibration

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Piaget’s First Stage of Cognitive Development

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Sensorimotor
0-2 years
Learns through reflexes, senses, and movement

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Piaget’s Second Stage of Cognitive Development

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Perioperational
2-7 years old
Develops language and begins to use symbols to represent objects

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Piaget’s Third Stage of Cognitive Development

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Concrete Operational
1st grade to 11 years
Can think logically, Organizes things into categories, reverse thinking

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Piaget’s Fourth Stage of Cognitive Development

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Formal Operational
Adolescence to Adulthood
Can think hypothectically, thinking becomes more scientific, can consider multiple perspectives

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Principle that a person or object remains the same over time

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Identity

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Assuming that others experience the world the way you do

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Egocentric

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A child’s cultural development first appears between people

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Interpsychological

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Sociocultural Theory: A child’s cultural development second appears inside the child

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Intrapsychological

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Processes we use to organize, focus attention, inhibit impulse, make plans, and use memory to manipulate information

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Executive Functioning

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Vygotsky: Real tools that help people communicate and solve problems: Computers, mobile devices, internet, and calendars

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Cultural Tools

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Vygotsky: Signs and symbols that help people communicate, solve problems, and gain knowledge: Numbers, Language, Graphs

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Psychological Tools

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Vygotsky: Speech in which children in a group talk but do not really interact or communicate

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Collective Monologue

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Vygotksy: Children’s self-talk which guides their thinking action

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Private Speech

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Vygotsky: Support for learning and problem solving: clues, reminders, and encouragement

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Scaffolding

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Vygotsky: Phase at which a child can master a task if given appropriate help and support

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Zone of Proximal Learning

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Orderly, adaptive changes we go through between conception and death

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Development

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Like walking up a ramp to go higher and higher; progress is steady is an example of what type of development

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Continuous or quantitative

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Like walking up stairs; there are level periods, and then you ascend the next step all at once is an example of what type of development

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Discontinuous or qualitative

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Changes in body structure and function over time

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Physical Development

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Changes in personality that take place as one grows

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Personal Development

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Changes over time in the ways we relate to others

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Social Development

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Gradual orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated

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Cognitive Development

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Genetically programmed, naturally occurring changes over time

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Maturation

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Joint actions of individual biology and the environment-each shapes and influences the other

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Coactions

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A technique that uses X-ray technology to provide enhanced, 3-dimensional images of the part of the body scanned

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Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT)

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A method of localizing and measuring brain activity using computer-assisted motion pictures of the brain

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

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A technique that measures electrical patterns in the brain created by neuron movements using electrodes attached to the scalp

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Electroencephalograph (EEG)

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Measurements that assess electrical activity of the brain through the skull or scalp

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Event-related potential (ERP)

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An MRI is an imaging technique that uses a magnetic field along with radio waves and a computer to create detailed pictures of the inside of the body.

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

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A technique that uses an optical fiber to transmit near-infrared light through the scalp and into the brain

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Near-infrared optical tomography (NIR-OT)

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The production of new neurons

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Neurogenesis

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These transmit information out to the muscles, glands, or other neurons

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Axons

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These receive information and transmit it to the neuron cell themselves

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Dendrites

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The white matter of the brain

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Glial cells

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The process by which neural fibers are coated with a fatty sheath that makes messages transfer more efficiently

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Myelination

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The specialization of the two hemispheres of the brain cortex

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Lateralization

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Adjustment to the environment

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Adaptation

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The understanding that objects have a separate, permanent existence

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Object permanence

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Deliberate actions toward a goal

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Goal-directed actions

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Actions a person carries out by thinking them through instead of literally performing the actions

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Operations

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Focusing on more than one aspect at a time

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Decentering

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Principle that some characteristics of an object remain the same despite changes in appearance

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Conservation

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Mental tasks tied to concrete objects and situations

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Concrete operations

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A characteristic of Piagetian logical operations the ability to think through a series of steps, then mentally reverse the steps and return to the starting point

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Reversibility

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Grouping objects into categories

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Classification

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Mental tasks involving abstract thinking and coordination of a number of variables

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Formal Operations

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More recent theories that integrate findings about attention, memory, and strategy use with Piaget’s insights about children’s thinking and the construction of knowledge

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Neo-Piagetian theories

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Emphasizes role in development of cooperative dialogues between children and more knowledgeable members of society

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Sociocultrual Theory

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A social process in which people interact and negotiate (usually verbally) to create an understanding or to solve a problem

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Co-constructed process

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Providing strategic help in the initial stages of learning, gradually diminishing as students gain independence

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Assisted learning

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Major function of the cerebrum

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control the voluntary muscular movements of the body

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Major functions of the frontal lobe

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Responsible for flexible and adaptive behavior, and for highly developed social skills in humans

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Major functions of the parietal lobe

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receiving and processing sensory input such as touch, pressure, heat, cold, and pain

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Major functions of the occipital lobe

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Visual processing area; distance and depth perception, color determination, object and face recognition, and memory formation

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Major functions of the cerebellum

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Controls balance for walking and standing and other complex motor functions

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