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| Basic unit of cognitive organization |
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| time when child is especially receptive to certain types of environmental experiences and therefore an ideal time for learning |
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| strings of unintelligible speech sounds with the intonational patterns of adult speech |
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| for all living things to systemize and organize behvior |
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| Phonetically Consistent Forms (PCFs) |
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| consistent coval patterns for specific referents that accompany gestures before the appearance of words |
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| balance between income of stimuli and cognitive structures |
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| Fully Resonant Nuclei (FRN) |
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| vowel-like sounds that are fully resonant laryngeal tones |
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| Process of maintaing information in long-tem memory; repetition, drill, practice |
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| Entity that represents another entity containing similar features (ex.: A word is a symbol for the entity it represents) |
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process by with an organism adapts to an environment; occurs as a result of two complementary processes:
- Assimilation
- Accommodation |
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| Process of reorganizing cognitive stuctures o schemes or creating new schemes in response to external stimuli that do not fit into any available scheme |
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| Representational Competence |
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| Ability to extract commonalities from expreriences and represent them abstractly or symbolically |
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| Long strings of consonant-vowel syllable repetitions, such as ba-ba-ba, that appea in the vocal play of 6- or 7-month old infants |
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| Speech flow patterns and prosody that can help an infant hear word boundaries when cracking the language comprehension code |
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| becoming used to a stimulus as it is repeatedly presented |
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| new material is integrated into the structure of information already stored in the long-term memory |
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| Burst in synaptic growth at 8-10 months noted in changes in child's perception and production of speech |
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| Automatic, involuntary motor patterns. Many neonatal patterns are reflexine and will disappear with maturity |
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| complex organizational webs that link concepts with cognitive systems |
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| Long string of sounds made by babies starting at about 4 months |
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| Vocal immitation of another speaker; starting at about 8 months |
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| Quasi-resonant Nuclei (QRN) |
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| some vibration of vocal folds and/or phonation found in neonates; do not yet have enough control to produce consonants and vowels |
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| Long strings of non-identical syllables (8-10 months) |
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| Process by which external stimuli are incorporated into existing cognitive structures or schemes |
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