Crossword 5.1 Flashcards
Zone of Proximal Development
A range of tasks that the child cannot yet handle independently but can do with the help of more skilled partners
Sensory Register
First part of the mental system where sights and sounds are represented directly but held only briefly
Assimilation
Use of current schesmas to interpret the external world
Scheme
A specific structure, or organized way of making sense of experience, that changes with age.
Infantile Amnesia
The inability to remember events before age three.
Autographical memory
Representations of special, one-time events that are long lasting and particularly meaningful in terms of the life story that each of us create.
Circular reaction
Infants try to repeat a chance event caused by their own motor activity.
Recall
Type of memoir that involves generating a mental representation of an absent activity
Violation of expectation method
Use of habituation procedures to examine infants understanding of physical experience
Long term memory
The part of the mental system that contains our permanent knowledge base
Adaptation
The process of building schemas through direct interaction with the environment
Object Permanence
Understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight.
Intentional Behavior
Sequence of actions in which schemas are deliberately combined to solve problems
Sensory Motor
Piagets first stage, during which infants and toddlers think with their eyes, ears, and hands
Organization
Internal rearrangement and linking together of schemas so that they form a strongly interconnected cognitive system
Standardization
Giving the test to a large. representative sample and using the results as the standard for interpreting scores.
Recognition
Type of memory that involves noticing whether a stimulus is identical or similar to the one previously experienced.
Accommodation
The creation of new schemas or adjustment of old ones to produce
Working memory
Conscious part of the mental system where we work on limited amount of information to ensure that it will be retained.
Central Executive
Part of working memory that directs the flow of information by coordinating information coming from the environment with information already in the system.
