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| The study of cognative development that is concerned with the basic mechanics of learning. |
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| approach to the study of cognative development that seek to measure the quantity of intelligence a person has. |
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| Approach to the study of cognative development that describes qualitative stages in cognitive functioning. |
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| Information-processing approach |
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| study of cognative development by observing and analyzing processes involved in percieving and handeling info. |
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| Cognative neuroscience approach |
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| Approach to the study of cognative development that links brain processes with cognative ones. |
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| Social-contextual approach |
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| Approach to the study of cognative development that forces on environmental influences. (parents &caregivers) |
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| learning based on associating a stimulus that does not ordinarily elicil a particular response with another stimulus that does elicit the response. |
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| Learning Based on reinforcement or punishment |
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| Home Observation for Measurement of the Envirnment (HOME) |
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| instument designed to measure the influence of the home envirnment on childrens cognative growth. |
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| Systematic process of providing services to help families meet youg childrens development needs |
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| in pigets theory, 1st stage in cognative dev, during which infants learn through senses and motor activity. |
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| piagets term for organized patterns of thought and behavior usedin particular situations. |
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| Piagets term that is the process where an infant learns to reproduce desired occurrences originally discovered by chance. |
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| piagets term for capacity to store mental images or symbols of objects and events |
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| imitation wit parts of ones body that one cannot see |
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| imitation with parts of ones bosy that one can see |
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| Piagets term for reproduction of an observed behavior after the passage of time by calling up a stored symbol of it. |
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| Research method in which infants or toddlers are induced to imitate a specific series of actions they have seen but not necessarily done before. |
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| piagets term for the understanding that aperson or object still exists when out of sight |
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| tendency for 8- to 12-month old infants to search for a hidden object in a place where they previously found it rather then in the place where they most recently saw it being hidden. |
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| Dual Representation Hypothesis |
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| proposal that children under age 3 have the difficulty grasping spatial relationsips because of the need to keep more then one mental reprentation in mind at the same time. |
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| Type of learning in which familarity with a stimulus reduces, slows, or stops a response. |
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| increase in responsiveness after presentation of a new stimulus. |
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| tendency of infants to spend more time looking at one sight then another. |
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| Visual Recognition Memory |
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| Ability to distinguish a familier visual stimulus for an unfamilier stimulus when shown both at the same time. |
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| ability to use information gained by one sense to guide another. |
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| Violation-Of-Expectations |
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| Reacsearch method where dishabituation to a stimulus that conflicts with experience is taken as evidence that an infant recognizes the new stimulus as surprising. |
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| unconscious recall, generally of habit. |
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| intentional and conscious memory. (facts, names, & events) |
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| Short-term storage of information being actively processed. |
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| communication system based on words and grammer. |
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| utterance of sounds that are not words. ( crying, cooing, babbling, and accidental & deliberate imitation) |
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| Verbal expression designed to convey meaning. |
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| single word that conveys a complete thought. |
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| early form of sentence use conssiting of only a few essential words |
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| rules for forminh sentences in a particular language. |
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| theory that human beings have an indorn capacity for language acquisition |
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| Language acquisition device (LAD) |
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| Chomshys term: inborn mechanism that enables children to infer linguistic rules from the language they hear. |
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| use of elements of 2 language, sometimes in the same utterace, by young children in households where both languages are spoken. |
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| changing ones speech to match the situation, as in people who are bilingual. |
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| used in talking to babies or toddlers. slow simplified speech. high pitched tone. exaggerated vowel sounds. short words & sentences. |
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