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Mental Operations
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PIAGET THEORY
the mental process of combining separating or transforming information in a logical manner |
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Pre operational Stage
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the stage of thinking between infancyt and middle childhood in which children are unable to decenter their thinking or to think through the consequences of an action
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egocentricism
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tendency to "center oneself"
to consider the world entirely from ones own point of view |
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precausal reasoning/thinking
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the reasoning of young children that does not follow the procedures of either deductive or inductive reasoning
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deductive reasoning
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reasoning from general premises to particular cases
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induction reasoning
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specific cases to general ones
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transductively thinking
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Piagets account during preoperational
thinking from one particular to another |
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information processing approach
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a strategy for explaining cognitive development based on an analogy with the workings of a digital computer
Nature and nurture play equal roles PIAGET |
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Sensory register
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That part of the information porcessing system that stores incoming information for a fraaction of a second before it is selectievly processed
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Short term working memory
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that part of the information processing system that holds incoming sensory information until it is taken up into long term memory or forgotten
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Long term memory
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memory that is retained over a long period of time
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Priveleged Domains
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cognitive domains that call upon specialized kinds of information require specifically designated forms of reasoning and appear to be of evoluionary importance to the human species
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Naive physics Domain
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refering to an early understanding of mechanical and material phenomena - ice melting to water
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Naive psychology Domain
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to designate a domain specific tendency for children to understand the actions of other people in terms of those peoples mental states
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Theory of Mind
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the ability to think about other peoples mental states and form theories of how they think
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Naive biology Domain
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natural knowledge in the domain of biology would develop later than knowledge about physical and psychological phenomena
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Naive Social Domain
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applies to children knowledge about the rules of interpersonal interacion and the social conventions that govern behavior in everyday events
Characterisitics: 1. TEMPORAL SEQUENCE: the order in which actions follow eachother 2. structure to them that the events procide a FORMAT that supports language dev. |
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Mental Modules
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innate mental faculaties that receive inputs from particular classes of objects and produce corresponding information about the world
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Autism
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a mental condition defined primarily by an inability to relate normally to other people and low scores on IQ tests
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Social development
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a twosided process in which children simutaneously become integrated into the larger social community and differenetiated as distincetive individuals
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Socialization
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the process by which children acquire the standards,values and knowledge of there society
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personality formation
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the process through which children develop their own unique patterns of feeling thkning and behaving in a wide variety of circumstances
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social roles
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categories that reflect adult expectations about the childs rights duties and obligations as well as appropriate forms of behavior
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Personality
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the unique patttern of temperatment emotions interests and intellectual abilites that a child develops as the childs innate propensities and capacities are shaped by his or her social interactions with kin and community
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Self Concept
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the way in which children come to conceive of themselves in relation to other people
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Gender segregation
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the term for the preference of girls to play with other girls and boy with to play with other boys
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Identification
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a psychological process in which children tory to look act feel and be like significant people in their environment
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Phallic stage
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in freudian theory the period around the fourth year when chilren begin to regard their own genitials as a major source of pleasure
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Modeling
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the process by which children observe and imitate individuals of the same sex themselves
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Differential reinforcement
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the process by which girls and boys are differently rewarded for engaging in gender appropriate behavior
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