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0-2 years infants learn about the world through their 5 senses and their motor skills |
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sensorimotor stage: substage 1 |
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birth-1 month reflexive schemas (exercising reflexes) |
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sensorimotor stage: substage 2 |
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1-4 months primary circular reactions done by accident towards infants own body |
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sensorimotor stage: substage 3 |
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4-8 months making/repeating events in the environment |
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sensorimotor stage: substage 4 |
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8-12 months secondary circular reactions goal-directed behavior first signs of object permanence |
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sensorimotor stage: substage 5 |
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12-18 months tertiary circular reactions experimenting repeating acts with variation |
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sensorimotor stage: substage 6 |
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18-24 months mental representations deferred imitation cause/effect of actions symbols |
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ability to reproduce behavior of models no longer present important for learning |
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not born with this concept complete by 24 months |
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| milestones of language development |
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cooing (vowel) babbling (vowel and consonant) holophrase (1 word) naming explosion (vocab spurt) telegraphic speech (2 words) |
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| defining a word too broadly |
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| defining a word too narrowly |
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Skinner language acquried through operant conditioning (reward and reinforcement) and imitation |
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all children posess an innate system for language acquisition language acquisition device (LAD) universal grammar |
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| interactionist perspectives |
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| language achievements through an interaction between innate abilities and environmental influences |
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high-pitched exaggerated simplification questions and commands repetition |
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| constraints on word names |
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name refers to a whole object name refers to all objects of the same type |
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