Chapter 5

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Primary Circular Reactions

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First of three feedback loops: involves the infant’s responses to it body.

Question 1

Sensorimotor Intelligence

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The way indents think-by using their senses and motor skills during the 1st period of cognitive development. Primary Circulator Reactions

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Stage 1

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Stage of reflexes

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Stage 2

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Stage of first habits

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Secondary Circulatory Reactions

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Second type of feedback loop: involves responses to people and objects.

Question 5

Stage 3

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Making interesting events lost

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Stage 4

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New adaptation and anticipation

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Object Permenance

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The realization that objects still exist when they can no longer be seen touched or heard. Secondary Circular Reactions.

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Tertiary Circular Reactions

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Third type of feedback loop: active exploration and experimentation.

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Stage 5

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New means through active experimentation.

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Stage 6

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Anticipate and solve problems by using mental combinations.

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Differed Imitation

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When infants copy behavior they noticed hours or days earlier.

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Habituation

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The process of getting used to an object or event through repeated exposure to it.

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FMRI

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Used to locate neurological responses to stimuli.

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EEG

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Measures electric activity in cortex.

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ERP

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Event related potential: notes amplitude and frequency of electrical activity.

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PET

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Like fMRI but requires injection of dye.

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Information-processing theory

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Theorists believe that a step-by-step description of the mechanisms of thought adds insight to our understanding of cognition at every age.

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Affordences

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The environment affords opportunities for interactions with what is perceived.

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Visual cliff

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Designed to provide the illusion of a sudden drop-off between one horizontal surface and another.

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Dynamic Perception

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Focuses on movement and change.

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People’s preference

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An innate attraction to other humans.

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Implicit memory

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Remains hidden until a stimulus brings it to mind.

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Explicit Memory

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Can be recalled on demand with words

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Child-directed speech

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The high-pitched simplified and repetitive way adults speak to infants (baby talk)

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Babbling

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Extended repetition of certain syllables beginning at 6-9 months.

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Language development

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1. babbling
2. one-word stage
3. two-word stage

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One word stage

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Beginning in or around his first birthday a child starts to speak one word at a time and is able to make family members understand him.

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Holophrase

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A single word that is used to express a complete thought.

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Naming explosion

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Sudden increase in an infants vocabulary beginning at 18 months.

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Two-word stage

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Before the second year a child starts to speak two-word sentences.

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Complete sentences

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Words come together to form sentences with nouns verbs adjectives and adverbs. Two word stage.

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Theory 1 of Language Learning

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Infants need to be taught

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Theory 2 of language learning

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Social-pragmatic: infants communicate in every way they can because humans are social beings.

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Hybrid theory

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Some aspects of language may be explained by one theory at one age and another theory at another age.