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| the stage (from 0-2) during which infoant know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities |
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| the stage ,from 2-7, during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic |
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| preconventioal, conventional and post conventional |
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| a desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment |
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| a desire to perform a behavior for its own dake |
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| the diminishing of a conditioned response |
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| learning that certain events occur together. the events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences |
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| a split which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simutaneously with others |
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| the sense of body movement and position including sense of balance |
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| the processing of several aspects of a problem simultaneously the brains natural mode of information processing for many functions including vision |
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| conversion of one form of energy into another, in sensation the transformation of stimulus into neural impulses our brain can interpret |
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| the activation often unconsiously of certain associations thus predisposing ones perception memory or response |
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| the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus half of the time |
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| the awareness the objects continue to exist when not perceived |
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| a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
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| agents that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm |
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| satisfy wishes, file memories, develop and preserve neural pathways, make sense of neural static, reflect cognitive development |
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| depth cues, such as retinal disparity and convergence tha tdepend on the use of two eyes |
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