Cognitive Development Flashcards
Assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society’s majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially. There are different forms of cultural assimilation
Accommodation
The term “accommodation” may be used to describe an alteration of environment, curriculum format, or equipment that allows an individual with a disability to gain access to content and/or complete assigned tasks. They allow students with disabilities to pursue a regular course of study.
Equilibration
Originally, “equilibration” means the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable. In psychology, the term “equilibration” refers to a basic process of development which contains both assimilation and accommodation.
Sensorimotor
The sensorimotor system encompasses all of the sensory, motor, and central integration and processing components involved with maintaining joint homeostasis during bodily movements (functional joint stability).
Preoperational
The preoperational stage is the second stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. This stage begins around age 2, as children start to talk, and lasts until approximately age 7. 1 During this stage, children begin to engage in symbolic play and learn to manipulate symbols.
Concrete operational
The concrete operational stage is the third stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. This period lasts around seven to eleven years of age, and is characterized by the development of organized and rational thinking.
Knowledge restructuring
The “Knowledge Restructuring through Case Processing” (KR-CP) theory is proposed as a domain-general framework that takes into account similarities and differences between domains in order to explain corresponding processes and performances of professionals in different domains.
Automatization
The development of a skill or habit to a point at which it becomes routine and requires little if any conscious effort or direction.
Generalization
Generalization is the concept that humans and other animals use past learning in present situations of learning if the conditions in the situations are regarded as similar.
Encoding
Memory Encoding is the initial learning of information. It is how the information coming from sensory input is changed into a form so it can be stored in the brain. Encoding is transforming internal thoughts and external events into short term and long-term memory. … It is a crucial first step in creating a new memory.
