Unit 4 Flashcards

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Schemes

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According to Piaget, mental structures that organize information and regulate behavior.

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Assimilation

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According to Piaget, taking in information that is compatible with what one already knows.

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Accommodation

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According to Piaget, changing existing knowledge based on new knowledge.

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Equilibration

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According to Piaget, the process by which children reorganize their schemes to return to a state of equilibrium when disequilibrium occurs.

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Sensorimotor Period

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Infancy (0-2 years). First of Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development, which lasts from birth to approximately 2 years.

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Preoperational Period

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Preschool and early elementary school years (2-7 years).

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Concrete Operational Period

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Middle and late elementary school years (7-11 years).

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Formal Operational Period

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Adolescence and adulthood (11 years and up).

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Object Permanence

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Understanding, acquired in infancy, that objects exist independently of oneself.

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Egocentrism

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Difficulty in seeing the world from another’s point of view; typical of children in the preoperational period.

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What are the characteristic shortcomings in preschoolers’ symbolic skills?

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  1. Egocentrism
  2. Centration
  3. Appearance as Reality
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Animism

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Phenomenon of crediting inanimate objects with life and lifelike properties such as feelings.

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Centration

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According to Piaget, narrowly focused type of thought characteristic of preoperational children.

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Core Knowledge Hypothesis

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Infants are born with rudimentary knowledge of the world, which is elaborated based on experiences.

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Teleological Explanations

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Children’s belief that living things, including their parts and their actions, exist for a purpose.

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Essentialism

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Children’s belief that all living things have an essence that can’t be seen but gives a living thing its identity.

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Mental Hardware

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Mental and neural structures that are built in and allow the mind to operate.

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Mental Software

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Mental “programs” that are the basis for performing particular tasks.

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Attention

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Processes that determine which information will be processed further by an individual.

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Orienting Response

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An individual views a strong or unfamiliar stimulus, and changes in heart rate and brain-wave activity occur.

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Habituation

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Act of becoming unresponsive to a stimulus that is presented repeatedly.

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Classical Conditioning

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A form of learning that involves pairing a neutral stimulus and a response originally produced by another stimulus.

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Operant Conditioning

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A form of learning that emphasizes the consequences of reward and punishment.

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Autobiographical Memory

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Memories of the significant events and experiences of one’s own life.

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One-to-One Principle
Counting principle that states that there must be one and only one number name for each object counted.
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Stable-Order Principle
Counting principle that states that number names must always be counted in the same order.
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Cardinality Principle
Counting principle states that the last number name denotes the number of objects being counted.
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Intersubjectivity
Mutual, shared understanding among participants in an activity.
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Guided Participation
Children's involvement in structured activities with others who are more skilled, typically producing cognitive growth.
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Zone of Proximal Development
Difference between what children can do with assistance and what they can do alone.
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Scaffolding
A style in which teachers gauge the amount of assistance they offer to match the learner's needs.
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Private Speech
A child's comments that are not intended for others but are designed to help regulate the child's own behavior.
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Infant-Directed Speech
Speech that adults use with infants that is slow and has exaggerated changes in pitch and volume; it helps children master language.
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Cooing
Early vowellike sounds that babies produce.
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Babbling
Speechlike sounds that consist of vowel-consonant combinations; common at about 6 months.
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Fast Mapping
A child's connections between words and referents that are made so quickly that he or she cannot consider all possible meanings of the word.
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Underextension
When children define words more narrowly than adults do.
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Overextension
When children define words more broadly than adults do.
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Phonological Memory
Ability to remember speech sounds briefly; an important skill in acquiring vocabulary.
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Referential Style
Language-learning style of children whose vocabularies are dominated by names of objects, persons, or actions.
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Expressive Style
Language-learning style of children whose vocabularies include many social phrases that are used like one word.
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Telegraphic Speech
Speech used by young children that contains only the words necessary to convey a message.
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Grammatical Morphemes
Words or endings of words that make a sentence grammatical.
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Overregularizations
Grammatical usage that results from applying rules to words that are exceptions to the rule.