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Cognitive Development in Infancy Flashcards

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Piaget

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theory of cognitive development, unifies biology and experience

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adaptation

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adjusting to new environmental demands

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schemes

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actions or mental representations that organize knowledge

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assimilation

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children use their existing schemes to deal with new info or experiences, like incorporating “bike” and “motorcycle” into the category of “car” heard from a caregiver

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accommodation

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children adjust their schemes to take new info and experiences into account, like removing “bike” and “motorcycle” from the category of “car”

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organization

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grouping of isolated behaviors and thoughts into a higher-order system to make sense of the world

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disequilibrium

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cognitive conflict when counterexamples to existing schemes present themselves, necessitating assimilation or accommodation

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equilibrium

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mechanism by which children shift from one stage of thought to the next, maintaining balance of understanding through assimilation and accommodation

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sensorimotor stage

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birth to about 2 years old

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substages of sensorimotor stage

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1-Simple reflexes-1 month
sensation and action coordinated primarily through
reflexive behaviors such as rooting and sucking
2-First habits & primary circular reactions-1-4 months
infant coordinates sensation & 2 types of schemes
3-Secondary circular reactions-4-8 months
more object-oriented, moves beyond preoccupation with
self, imitates simple actions but only those s/he is
already able to produce
4-coordination of secondary circular reactions-8-12 mo.
hand-eye coordination, actions become more outward
directed, coordinate schemes and intentionality
5-tertiary circular reactions, novelty, and curiosity-12-18
mo.
6-internalization of schemes-18-24 months
ability to use primitive symbols

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habit

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scheme based on a reflex that has become completely separated from its eliciting stimulus, like sucking even when no bottle is present

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circular reaction

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repetitive action

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primary circular reaction

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scheme based on the attempt to reproduce an event that initially occurred by chance

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secondary circular reaction

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scheme that is not intentional or goal-directed, but is repeated because of consequences, like shaking a rattle because of fascination

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coordination of secondary circular reaction

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infants coordinate schemes with intentional action, like manipulating a stick in order to bring a desired toy within reach

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tertiary circular reactions

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schemes in which infant purposely explores new possibilities with objects, continually doing new things to them and exploring the results

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primitive symbol

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internalized sensory image or word that represents an event, so that the infant can think about concrete events w/out directly acting them out or perceiving them

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object permanence

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understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched, achieved by the end of the sensorimotor period

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the A-not-B error

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when a toy is hidden at A and later at B, the child still looks for the toy at location A, not consistent and sensitive to the delay between hidings

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core knowledge approach

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Spelke, infants are born with domain-specific innate knowledge systems involving space, number sense, object permanence, and language

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attention

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focusing of mental resources on select info, improving cognitive processing, happens by 4 months old

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orienting/investigative process

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directing attention to potentially important locations in the environment (where) and recognizing objects and their features (what)

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sustained attention

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focused attention, new stimuli elicits orienting response followed by sustained attention

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habituation

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decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus

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dishabituation

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increase in responsiveness after a change in stimulation

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joint attention

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individuals focus on the same object or event, requires the ability to track another person’s behavior (like following a gaze), one person’s directing another’s attention, and reciprocal interaction

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memory

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retention of info over time, as a part of encoding

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encoding

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process by which info gets into memory

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implicit memory

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memory without conscious recollection, such as memory of skills and routine procedures performed automatically

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explicit memory

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conscious memory of facts and experiences

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infantile/childhood amnesia

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inability to remember events that happened before 3 years of age

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deferred imitation

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infant copies someone but after a delay of hours or days, having retained that memory to repeat it

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categories

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group objects, events, and characteristics on the basis of common properties

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concepts

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ideas about what categories represent

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perceptual categorization

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based on similar perceptual features of objects (such as size, color, and movement) as well as parts of objects (such as legs for animals)

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conceptual categorization

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the ability (beginning at 7-9 months) to categorize things correctly even though they share similar features, such as birds being animals and airplanes being vehicles

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Gesell

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developed a test that helped sort out babies with normal functioning from ones with abnormal functioning; test has 4 categories of behavior: motor, language, adaptive, and personal-social; DQ combines subscores into an overall score

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developmental quotient

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DQ, Gesell test, combines subscores of motor, language, adaptive, and personal-social into one score

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Bayley Scales of Infant Development III

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Bayley, assesses infant behavior and predicts later development; has 5 subscales: cognitive, language, motor (these 3 directly w/ infant), socioemotional, and adaptive (these 2 thru parent questionnaire)

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Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence

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focuses on the infant’s ability to process info by encoding an object’s attributes, detecting similarities & differences, forming & retrieving mental representations, only infant test to correlate with later IQ scores

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language

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form of communication based on a system of symbols, all languages share the characteristics of infinite generativity and organizational rules

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infinite generativity

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ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words and rules

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phonology

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sound system of a language, including sounds that are used and how they may be combined

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morphology

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units of meaning involved in word formation

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syntax

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the way words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences

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semantics

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meaning of words and sentences

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pragmatics

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appropriate use of language in different contexts

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infant communication milestones

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crying-birth
cooing-2-4 months
recognizing own name-5 months-7 months
babbling-6 months
gesturing, esp. pointing-8-12 months
first words-18 months
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vocabulary spurt

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rapid increase in vocabulary beginning around 18 months old

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overextension

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tendency to apply a word to inappropriate objects

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underextension

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tendency to apply a word too narrowly, when the child fails to use a word to name a relevant event or object

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telegraphic language

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use of short and precise words without grammatical markers such as articles, auxiliary verbs, and other connectives: “want ball”

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Broca’s area

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left frontal lobe of brain involved in producing words, damage will result in difficulty producing words correctly

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Wernicke’s area

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left hemisphere region involved in language comprehension, damage will result in poor comprehension and often fluent but incomprehensible speech

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aphasia

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damage to Broca’s or Wernicke’s area that produces a loss or impairment of language processing

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Chomsky

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humans are biologically prewired to learn language at a certain time and in a certain way through a LAD (supported by evidence: uniformity of language milestones across languages and cultures, children create language even w/out well-formed input, biological substrates of language

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language acquisition device

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LAD, Chomsky, biological endowment enabling a child to detect phonology, syntax, and semantics

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Tomasello

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interaction view of language, emphasizes that children learn language in specific contexts, through joint attention with caregivers (like a dad reading a book to his son)

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child-directed speech

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language spoken at a higher pitch than normal with simple words and sentences

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recasting

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rephrasing something the child has said, turning it into a question or restating the child’s immature utterance in the form of a fully grammatical sentence

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expanding

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restating, in a linguistically sophisticated form, what a child has said

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labeling

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identifying names of objects

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interactionist view of language acquisition

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incorporates both biological predispositions and environmental contributions for how language is acquired

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