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| the process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something |
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| interpreting our new experience in terms of our existing schemes |
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| affection, fondness, or sympathy for someone or something |
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| Piaget's theory stage 1. birth-2 years. individuals experience the world only through sensory contact |
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| Piaget's theory stage 2. ages 2-7 years. children think in concrete terms, and learn through hands-on, not yet able to use logic. |
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| concrete operational stage |
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| Piaget's theory stage 3. age 7-12 years old. child reasons logically about objects that are physically present. |
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| Piaget's theory stage 4, final stage. development of abstract thinking. |
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| a presentation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline or model |
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| the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects |
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| centered, or being placed in the center |
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| concern for your own interests and welfare, little regard for others |
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| a period during someone's development in which a particular skill or characteristic is believed to be most readily acquired |
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| the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another |
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| a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group |
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| the cell produced by the union of two gametes, before it splits |
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| a mammal in the early stages of development in the womb, up to the end of the second month in humans |
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| the young of an animal in the womb or egg, especially in the later stages of development when the body structures are in the recognizable form of its kind. after the end of the second month in humans |
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| a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects |
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| an instinctive reflex in newborns that causes them to turn their their head to the side with their mouth open ready to be fed, when their cheek is stroked |
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| the act or process of knowing |
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