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Child Development Chap. 5
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Psychology
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03/09/2009

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sensorimotor period
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piaget's term for the first two years of life, when awareness of the world is limited to what can be known through sensory awareness and motor acts
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adaptation
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in piaget's theory, the process by which children change in order to fuction more effectively in their environment
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assimilation
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in piaget's theory, the process of applying an existing capability without modification to various situations
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accommondation
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in piaget's theory, the process of modifiying and existing strategy or skill to meet a new demand of the environment
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schemes
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in piaget's theory, cognitive structures that can be applied to a variety of situations
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equilbration
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in piaget's theory, a self regulatory process that produces increasingly effective adaptations
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circular reaction
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a behavior that produces an interesting event, initially by chance, and is repeated
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primary circular reaction
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a circular reaction involving an infant's own body
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secondary circular reaction
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a circular reaction involving the effects of an infant's behavior on an external object
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coordination of schemes
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a goal-directed chain of behaviors
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tertiary circular reaction
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a circular reaction involving purposeful, trial-and-error experimentation with a variety of objects
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deferred imitation
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imitation of observed behavior after time has elapsed, indicating an infant's ability to store a representation of the behavior in memory
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symbolic or representational thought
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in piaget's theory, the ability to make one thing stand for another
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decaloge
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piaget's term for inconsistencies in a child's cognitive development across different domains
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neo-nativist
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a contemporary developmental theorist who believes infants have a wide range of innate abilities and knowledge
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working memory
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the information-processing capacity available at any one time
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object permance
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the understanding that objects continue to exist when they are out of sight
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recognition memory
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a type of memory in which a particular stimulus is perceived as familiar
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recall
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active retrieval of information from memory
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cued recal
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a type of memory in which a familiar stimulus triggers recall of stored information
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explicit or declarative memory
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memory that is conscious, involves mental representation of images or ideas, and can be explicitly stated or declared
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implicity or prcedural memory
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memory that unconscious involves memory for procedures or skills, and does not lend itself to explicity statement
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infantile amnesia
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adults' inability to recall events from infancy
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autobiographical memory
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enduring memory of one's own past
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