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PART 5. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT DURING FIRST 3 YEARS Flashcards

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6 Approaches to Studying Cognitive Development

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Behaviorist Approach
Psychometric Approach
Piagetian Approach
Information-Processing Approach
Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
Social-Contextual Approach
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how behavior changes in response to experience; basic mechanics of learning

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Behaviorist Approach

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measures quantitative difference in abilities that make up intelligence

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Psychometric Approach

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looks at stages in the quality of cognitive functioning

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Piagetian Approach

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This approach studies how kids process information from the time they encounter it until they use it

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Information-Processing Approach

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identify what brain structures are involved in specific aspects of cognition

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Cognitive Neuroscience Approach

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effects of environmental aspects to the learning process, particularly the role of parents and caregivers

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Social-Contextual Approach

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association of a stimulus [neutral] with another stimulus [unconditioned] to produce a response [conditioned]

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classical conditioning

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association of behavior and event

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operant conditioning

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a case in which we are not able to remember memories from when we are infants

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infantile amnesia

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actions goal-oriented and adaptive to circumstance and conditions of life

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intelligent behavior

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measures intelligence by comparing examinees’ performance with standardized norms

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Test

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standardized test of infant’s mental and motor development

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Bayley Scale of Infant and Toddler Development

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measures influence of home environment on children’s cognitive growth

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Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment

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organized patterns of thought and behavior used in particular situations

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schemes

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infants learn to reproduce desired occurrences originally discovered by chance

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circular reactions

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Substages of Piagetian Approach

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Use of reflexes (birth-1 month)
Primary circular reactions (1-4 months)
Secondary circular reactions (4-8 months)
Coordination of secondary schemes (8-12months)
Tertiary circular reactions (12-18 months)
Mental combinations (18-24 months)

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systematic process of providing services to help families meet young children’s developmental needs

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early intervention

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Substage of Piagetian Approach wherein babies exercise inborn reflexes

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Use of reflexes (birth-1 month)

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Substage of Piagetian Approach wherein babies repeat pleasurable behaviors that first occur by chance and begin to coordinate sensory information

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Primary circular reactions (1-4 months)

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Substage of Piagetian Approach wherein actions are intentional but not initially goal-oriented

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Secondary circular reactions (4-8 months)

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Substage of Piagetian Approach wherein behaviors are purposeful, goal-oriented, and babies now anticipate events

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Coordination of secondary schemes (8-12months)

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Substage of Piagetian Approach wherein infants show curiosity and use trial and error to solve problems

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Tertiary circular reactions (12-18 months)

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Substage of Piagetian Approach babies wherein representational ability emerges thus, symbolic thought allows anticipation

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Mental combinations (18-24 months)

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capacity to store mental images of an object or event

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representational ability

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Key Development in Sensorimotor Stage

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Imitation
Object Permanence
Symbolic Development
Categorization
Causality
Number
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important part of learning

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Imitation

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realization that object continue to exist even when out of sight

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Object Permanence

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understanding that images represent something else

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Symbolic Development

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recognition of classification; nested relationships

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Categorization

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awareness that one event may cause another

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Causality

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recognition and manipulation of small numbers

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Number

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imitation with parts of one’s body that one can see

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visible imitation

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imitation with parts of one’s body that one cannot see

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invisible imitation

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reproduction of observed behavior after the passage of time by calling a store symbol of it

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deferred imitation

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induced to imitate a series of action they have seen but not done before

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elicited imitation

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objects have their own independent existence

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object concept

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when infants look for an object where it is first found although they saw it being moved to another place

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A-not-B error

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Esther Thelen’s theory which proposes that the decision where to search is not what the baby knows, but about what they do and why.

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Dynamic System’s Theory

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intentional representations of reality

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symbols

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ability to understand nature of pictures

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pictorial competence

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momentary misperception of the relative sizes of objects

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scale error

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this hypothesis propose that kids under 3 years have difficulty grasping spatial information because of the need to keep more than one representation at the same time

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dual representation hypothesis

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familiarity of a stimulus reduces or stops a response

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habituation

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increase in responsiveness after presentation of a new stimulus

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dishabituation

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tendency to look at one sight longer than another

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visual preference

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tendency to prefer new sights to familiar ones

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novelty preference

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ability to distinguish a familiar visual stimulus from unfamiliar one when shown simultaneously

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visual recognition memory

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ability to use information gained by one sense to guide another

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cross-modal transfer

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shared focus of two individual on an object or event

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joint attention

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it measures visual reaction time and visual anticipation

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Visual Expectation Paradigm

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speed of gaze shift to a picture that has just appeared

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visual reaction time

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infant looks at the place where he/she expects the next picture to appear

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visual anticipation

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usually how infants categorize [shape, color, and pattern]

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perceptual features

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based on real-world knowledge [function]

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conceptual features

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dishabituation to a stimulus which conflicts with experience is taken as proof that babies recognize new stimulus as surprising

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violation-of-expectations

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inborn reasoning abilities

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innate learning mechanisms

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procedural memory; unconscious recall

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Implicit Memory

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declarative memory; intentional and conscious memory

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Explicit Memory

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this part of the brain develop the working memory

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prefrontal cortex

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short-term storage of information being actively processed

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working memory

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its development results to longer-lasting memories

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hippocampus

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refers to mutual interactions with adults who help kid’s activities and fill the gap between their understanding and an adult’s

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Guided participation

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A theory made by ______, which proposed that learning is a collaborative process wherein kids learn by conversing with more knowledgeable members of society.

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Socio-cultural theory by Lev Vygotsky

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it is a communication system based on words and grammar

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Language

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forerunner of linguistic speech; utterance of words that are not words

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Prelinguistic Speech

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a baby’s first means of communication

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crying

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an infant’s expression to show happiness

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cooing

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repetition of consonant-vowel sound

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babbling

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when a baby accidentally imitates a word in which the parents encourage

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Accidental Imitation

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when a baby imitates and repeats a word without understanding

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Deliberate Imitation

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True or False. Sound discrimination starts when born.

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False. It starts in the WOMB.

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smallest unit of speech

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Phonemes

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True or False. An infant can recognize any phonetic sounds.

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True

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True or False. During 6-10 months, recognition of native phonetic sounds increases as well as discrimination of nonnative sounds.

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False. Discrimination of nonnative sounds DECLINES.

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True or False. At the end of the 1st year, babies lose sensitivity to sound that are not part of language/s they usually hear.

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True

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True or False. Bilingual babies learn language at the same rate with those that learn only one.

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True

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True or False. Bilingual babies have large vocabularies in both languages like those that learn only one.

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False. Babies with only one language tend to have larger vocabularies. However, vocabularies of bilingual babies are smaller in both languages.

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A gesture that expresses an infants thoughts without talking.

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pointing

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A gesture that is used for social interactions like waving bye-bye, nodding, and shaking one’s head.

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conventional social gestures

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A gesture that expresses something else like holding arms up to show he/she wanted to be picked up.

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representational gestures

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A gesture like blowing to show that it is hot and sniffing for flower.

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symbolic gesture

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A communication used by deaf babies to learn sign language which is similar to babbling,

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hand-babbling

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verbal expression designed to convey meaning

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linguistic speech

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single word that conveys a complete thought

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holophrase

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it is what infants understand

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receptive vocabulary

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spoken form of vocabulary

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expressive vocabulary

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early form of sentence used by infants by using just enough essential words to get their message across

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telegraphic speech

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rules for forming a sentence. It varies depending on the language. Babies are more competent in this by 20-30 months.

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Syntax

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Characteristics of Early Speech:

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Oversimplification
Underextending word meanings
Overextending word meanings
Overregularizing rules

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A characteristic of early speech when babies tend to say just enough get their meaning across.

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Oversimplification

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restricting a word to a single object.

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Underextending word meanings

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3.using words in too broad of a category.

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Overextending word meanings

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4.inappropriate use of syntactical rule.

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Overregularizing rules

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theory that states that learning is based on experience and learned associations

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Learning theory

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this views learning as the active role of the learner

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nativism

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who pioneered nativism?

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Noam Chomsky

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An inborn device which programs an infant’s brain to analyze language that they hear.

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Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

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the earliest parts of the brain that develops and also in-charge of a baby’s crying

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brain stem and pons

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its maturation occurs at about the same time when a baby shows repetitive babbling

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motor cortex

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This model supports the idea that the environment wherein a kid grows, as well as their relationships, affect the pace of language learning.

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Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model

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it is the incorporation of elements from different languages within a sentence

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code-mixing

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it is the switching of various languages between sentences

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code-switching

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also called parentese, motherese, or baby talk. It is a slow-simplified speech, high-pitched tone, exaggerated vowel sounds, short words and sentences, and much repetition.

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Child-Directed Speech

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ability to read and write.

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literacy

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focuses on describing what is going on in the image. This resulted to considerable benefits for vocabulary and print skills.

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describer style

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encourages the kid to focus on the meaning and make inferences as well as predictions.

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comprehender style

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starts by introducing the main themes, reads the story, and ask questions afterwards. This style is advantageous to those children who started out with large vocabularies.

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performance-oriented style

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3 Styles of reading to a Kid

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describer style
comprehender style
performance-oriented style

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