Ch. 6

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Maturation

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biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience

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Schema

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A concept or Framework that organizes and interprets information.

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Assimilation

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Interpreting one's new experiences in terms of one's existing schemas

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Accommodation

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adapting one's current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information.

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Sensorimotor Stage

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In Piaget's theory, the stage (from Birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

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Object Permanence

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the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

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Pre-operational Stage

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In Piaget's theory, the stage (from 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

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Conservation

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the principle (Which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational resigning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects

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Formal Operations Stage

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In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

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Concrete Operational Stage

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In Piaget's Theory, the stage of cognitive development (ages 6 or 7 to 11) in which children gain the mental operations which enables them to think logically about concrete events

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Observational Learning

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A type of learning in which behavior is observed and limited without direct rewards

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Modeling

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A process of watching then intimidating a specific behavior

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ProSocial Behavior

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Positive, constructive,helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior