UNIT 6 Flashcards
gross motor skills
physical skills involving large muscles
fine motor skills
physical skills involving small muscles and eye-hand coordination
kellog’s view
the less adult involvement the better
vygotsky’s view
children need social interaction
preoperational stage
use mental representations (thinking about things not physically present and playing involving imaginary people)
transduction
to link things without logical relationship
animism
attribute life to object that are not alive
egocentrism
inability to consider another person’s point of view
decenter
think simultaneously about several aspects of a situation
deception
make someone believe something which is false
fast mapping
absorbing the meaning of a new word after hearing it once or twice
private speech
Piaget said it was a sign of cognitive immaturity and egocentrism, Vygotsky argues it is communication with oneself and not egocentric, the most sociable people use it
