Chapter 6 Flashcards
What’s the most advanced substage in Piaget’s sensorimotor period?
tertiary circular reaction
what is a morpheme?
smallest unit of meaning in a language.
first words infants produce :
a) tend to be ones used by parents
b) similar across cultures
c) tend to be objects that’re brightly colored & catch attention
d) have no specific degree of predictability
a)tend to be ones used by parents.
cognitive development in children is process by which,
children perceive and mentally represent the world.
receptive vocabulary includes what?
all words child understands.
moving from reflexive imitation to purposeful imitation requires,
improvements in cognitive abilities
earliest age rudimentary knowledge of object permanence has been found?
4 months.
Baylay Scales measure infant intelligence by assessing what?
attention span & persistence.
deferred imitation means
child has mental representation in mind for behavior observed potentially long before behavior is imitated.
object permanence refers to
recognition that things exist that cannot be readily seen.
what does it mean when an infant shows habituation?
infant has seen object enough times to lose interest.
which substage of sensorimotor development would you first witness goal-directed behavior?
primary circular reactions.
according to Piaget, children’s cognitive processes develop how?
in orderly sequence or series of stages.
Which of the following is most sophisticated?
a) making no sound
b) cooing
c) crying
d) babbling
d) babbling.
in terms of language:
a) its development is predetermined and independent of experience
b) its development is linked very closely to the development of visual memory
c) children can only understand words they can say
d) children can understand many more words than they can speak
d) children can understand many more words than they can speak
