Chapter 3 Flashcards
Adaptation
The process of constructing knowledge. Adding new knowledge to existing knowledge and making accommodations.
Assimilation
Interpreting new simulation or information as fitting with what one already knows. Sometimes distorting what you know
Domain specific
A specific subject matter, like math.
Habituation
A decrease in an infant’s response to stimuli overtime.
Orienting response
In infants set of behaviors that suggest that the baby is attending to a stimulus.
Habituation paradigm
Once an infant habituates to one stimulus, a new one can be presented revealing whether or not they notice the difference between the 2 stimuli.
Dishabituation
After habituating to 1 stimulus, an infant may show reinstatement of the orienting response if the stimulus is changed. Meaning they noticed a difference between the new and old stimulus.
Preferential response paradigm
Multiple stimuli are presented to an infant and researchers record which stimulus the baby responds to more.
Visual acuity
The level of detail that one can see.
Object concept
Understanding of what an object is and that it has permanence
Object permanence
Objects continue to exist when we do not perceive(sense) it
Representational thought
The ability to imagine
Hidden object test
Hiding an object. If the infant seeks it under the cloth then it shows that they have a sense of permanence
Deferred imitation
An infant imitating an action they have seen in the past.
Mirror neurons
Activated when a person performed a particular action and/or when someone else does that action. Helps with the understanding of other’s actions
Making interesting sights last
When an infant’s behavior accidentally produces and interesting event, the child notices, and repeats it.
Means-end behavior
8-12 months. Babies divert their attention from a goal in order to produce another action that will achieve that goal
Agency
The ability to act without an external trigger or to engage in self-motivated behavior.
Theory of mind
Degree of knowledge of the existence of mental processes in self and other people.
Self-regulation
The ability to prevent oneself from making a dominant, preferred or automatic response or order to perform a nondominant response. For example, waiting for everyone at the table to get their food before eating.
Cognitive flexibility
The ability to readily shift one’s way of thinking about a problem, categorizing material, or responding to a situation when the usual way doesn’t work
Number conservation task
Children must recognize that the number of items in a set does not change when the appearance of the set changes.
Centration
When a child tends to focus on one salient feature of an experience or event at a time
Decentration
Attending to multiple pieces of information at one time.
Exploratory play
Play that involves manipulating objects, checking out their properties, sorting and/or organizing them. Helps children learn about object properties.
Preoperational egocentrism
The tendency of preschoolers to be aware of only their own perspective.
Symbolic artifact
Analogical symbols, such as pictures or maps or scale models that are both concrete objects themselves and symbols for other things.
Phonology
The sound system of a language. Includes rules for arranging the basic sound of the language.