Physical/ Cognitive Development in Preschoolers

Question 1

preschool age in US

Answer 1

2-5yrs

Question 2

side of the brain that detects patterns and images, process body language

Answer 2

right side

Question 3

side especially active during 3-6yrs

Answer 3

left side

Question 4

abilities to required to control the large movements of the arms, feet, legs

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gross motor skills

Question 5

involve small body parts and are hard to master

Answer 5

fine motor skills

Question 6

Piaget’s period from 2-7yrs

inability to use logic

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preoperational period

Question 7

language, symbolic thought

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pretend play

Question 8

tendency to consider only on e piece of information when multiple pieces are relevant

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centration

Question 9

define reality by surface appearance

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appearance-reality

Question 10

inability to take on perspective of another person

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egocentrism

Question 11

preoperational thinkers fail to recognize that reversing a process sometimes restore why existed before

Answer 11

irreversibility

Question 12

tendency to attribute life to nonliving things

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animism

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amount stays the same despite change in appearance

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conservation

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process in which one state is change to another

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transformation

Question 15

temporary sensitive support to help them transfer the zone

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scaffolding

Question 16

kids start to understand they are a separate being, think accurately or inaccurately, thinking about thinking

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theory of mind

Question 17

look at initial difference between groups, not magnitude of difference

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qualitative rule

Question 18

count the magnitude of difference

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quantitative rule

Question 19

idea that numbers and name occur in a certain order

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staple oder principle

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last number in sequence is number of things you have in front of you

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cardinal rule

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any set of objects is countable

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abstraction principle

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ability to group things by shared characteristics

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classification

Question 23

ability to arrange things in a logical progression

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seriation

Question 24

ability to understand relationship between two objects

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transitive inference

Question 25

any set of objects or events that are treated as the same

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class

Question 26

ability to perceive a stimulus as familiar

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recognition memory

Question 27

ability to spontaneously pull info from long-term memory

Answer 27

free recall