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what was Piaget’s theory of baby’s?

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Babies assimilates incoming information to the limited array of schemes through sensory information.

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What is sensorimotor stage?

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the period during which infants develop and refine info through looking, sucking, grasping, etc.

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Primary Circular Reaction?

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When a baby repeats some action to trigger a certain reaction inside the body.

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Secondary circular reaction

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when a baby repeats some action to trigger a certain reaction outside of her own body.

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What age do babies start to understand connections?

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8-12 months.

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What is means-end behaviour

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The ability to keep a goal in mind and devise a plan to achieve it.

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Teritary Circular Reactions

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From 12-18 months, the baby does not repeat the original behaviour, but adapts and uses variations.

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What is a preoperational stage?

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When young children learn how to use symbols, including numbers, ato learn about the world and communications.

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What is a concrete-operational stage?

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When children develop the ability to use simple logical operations to learn about and interact with the world.

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What is the formal operational stage?

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When adolescents develop the ability to think logically and systematically, to think about abstract and hypothetical ideas.

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What is a schema?

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Psychological structures that organize expeirence through mental categories and conceptual knowledge.

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What is assimilation?

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Cognitively incorperating new experiences into existing schemas.

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What is accommodation:?

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Cognitive modification of schemas as a result of experience?

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What is observational learning?

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Involves changes in behaviour that results from watching others.

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What is imitation?

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recreating someone else’s motor behaviour or expresison.

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What is language?

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A form of communication that involves the use of spoken written or gestural symbols that are combined in a rule-based form.

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How does language differ from communcation?

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Language is:
- Symbolic
- Structured and meaningful
- Shows displacement
- generativity.

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What is receptive Language?

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Ability to understand messages through listening or reading?

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What is expressive language?

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Ability to produce or generate meaningful messages through speech, sign language, or writing.

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What are phonemes?

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The most basic unit of speech sounds.

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What is infant directed speech?

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Special form of speech which adults use for infants:
- Pitch of voice becomes higher
- Inotations is exaggerated
- Words and phrases are repeated.

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When does the Slow Expansion start for an infant, and what are their traits?

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12-18 months, language develops at a slow but steady pace.
- aquires 1-3 new spoken words per week/

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What is holophrase?

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When a single word is used to represent a whole sentence.

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What is overextension?

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When the use of a single word is to represent a variety of related objects.

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What is underextension?

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applying a general word to a specific object.

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When does the Naming Explosion happen, and what are their traits?

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18-24 months. Language production increases rapidly from 5-10 new words per week.
- Start to use color and emotions,.

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What is fast mapping?

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The child’s ability to connect new words into meanings so they cannot be considering all possible meanings.

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What is telegraphic speech?

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When two word phrases strip away connecting words such as ‘the’ and ‘and.’

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When does language formally develop. and what happens during then?

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24-36 months, kids start to use prepositions. has better understanding of categories.

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What is the Bayley scale of toddler and infant developmenht?

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  1. Cognitive scale - attention, exploration, and matching
  2. Language scale - understanding and use of language
    Motor scale - fine and gross motor skills.
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Cognitive Scale - How do children learn about the world?

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  • Get curious over new things
  • Attention to familiar and unfamiliar objects
  • How they play with different kind of toys.
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how do parents usually teach children of cognitive scaling?

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  • Bringing them outside
  • Giving them colourful toys
  • Asking or interacting the child of what they did today
  • Talk about events of the kid.
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What is the Language Scale?

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How children adapt to sounds.

  • Receptive communcations.

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