Physical/ Cognitive Development in Preschoolers Flashcards
preschool age in US
2-5yrs
side of the brain that detects patterns and images, process body language
right side
side especially active during 3-6yrs
left side
abilities to required to control the large movements of the arms, feet, legs
gross motor skills
involve small body parts and are hard to master
fine motor skills
Piaget’s period from 2-7yrs
inability to use logic
preoperational period
language, symbolic thought
pretend play
tendency to consider only on e piece of information when multiple pieces are relevant
centration
define reality by surface appearance
appearance-reality
inability to take on perspective of another person
egocentrism
preoperational thinkers fail to recognize that reversing a process sometimes restore why existed before
irreversibility
tendency to attribute life to nonliving things
animism
amount stays the same despite change in appearance
conservation
process in which one state is change to another
transformation
temporary sensitive support to help them transfer the zone
scaffolding
kids start to understand they are a separate being, think accurately or inaccurately, thinking about thinking
theory of mind
look at initial difference between groups, not magnitude of difference
qualitative rule
count the magnitude of difference
quantitative rule
idea that numbers and name occur in a certain order
staple oder principle
last number in sequence is number of things you have in front of you
cardinal rule
any set of objects is countable
abstraction principle
ability to group things by shared characteristics
classification
ability to arrange things in a logical progression
seriation
ability to understand relationship between two objects
transitive inference
any set of objects or events that are treated as the same
class
ability to perceive a stimulus as familiar
recognition memory
ability to spontaneously pull info from long-term memory
free recall
