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| the rapid growth of synaptic density that happens between 3-12 months |
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| ability to move around on ones own |
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| psychological processes through which children acquire, store, and use knowledge about the world |
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| the ability to picutre the world mentally and think about an object or event in its absence |
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| secondary circular response |
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| the behavior of third substage of Pgt, babies repeat behavior to produce interesting changes in the environment |
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| ability to engage in behavior directed toward achieving a goal |
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| understanding that objects have substance, maintain identity when they change location, and usually continue to exist when out of site |
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| infants tendency to repeat a movement rther than shit movement to fit events (A not B error) |
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| process of responding to different things as equivalent because of a similarity between them |
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| the ability to recognize object and events that have been previously experienced |
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| ability to recall absent objects without a clear reminder |
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| ability to imitate an action observed in the past |
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| zone of proximal development |
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| the gap between what a child can accomplish alone and what they can accomplsh with the help of others who are more competent |
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| enduring emotional bond between babies and specific people |
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| secondary intersubjectivity |
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| sharing between infants and caregivers of understandings and emotions that refer beyond themselves to object and other people |
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| babies tendency to look at their caregivers for some indication of how to react when they encounter something unfamiliar |
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| a form of vocalizing by babes that includes consonant and vowel sounds like those in speech |
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| babbling with the stress and intonation of actual utterances in the language that the baby will eventually speak |
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| tertiary circular reations |
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| 5th stage of sensoriomoter period characterized by deliberate variation of actions to solve problems and explore the world |
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| play in which object stands for another |
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| the mental representation of both a symbol and its relationship to the thing it depicts |
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| state of arousal, such as hunger and thirst, that urge the organism to obtain a the basics for survival |
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| the state of indifference to others that children manifest when there is continuing separation from caregivers |
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| the distress that babies show when the person to whom they are attached leaves |
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| bowlby term for the people whose presence provide the child with the security to explore |
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| a mental model that children construct as a result of their experiences with their caregivers and that they use to guide their interactions with their caregivers and others |
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| a procedure designed to assess childrens attachement on the basis of their response to a stranger when they are with their mothers, when left alone, and when reunited with mother |
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| children play and react positvely to stranger when mother is there, become upset when mom leaves and not consoled by stranger, and calm down when mother comes back |
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| anxious/avoidant attachement |
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| infants are indfferent to where their mother is, may or may not cry when mom leaves, as as likely to be comforted by strangers, indifferent when mom returns |
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| anxious/resistant attachement |
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| stay close to mother and appear anxious even when mom is near, become upset when mom leaves and not comforted by others, resist mothers effort to comfort them on return |
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| emotions such as embarrasement, pride, guilt, envy that depend on child's ability to recognize, talk about, and think about themselves in relation to others |
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