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24 Cards in this Set
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Among the choices for early childhood education are______
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child care centers, preschools or nursery schools, and school child care
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David Elkin argues that children require ______ which is based on both typical development and the unique characteristics of a given child.
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developentally appropriate educational practives
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Parents can improve the academic readiness of their children without creating udue _______ by being aware of the stage of cognitive development that each individual child has reached
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stress
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________ are organized, formal, logical mental processes
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Operations
Piaget's preoperational thinking |
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According to Piaget, _____is the ability to represent something that is not physically present
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symbolic function
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The process of concentrating on one limited aspect of a stimulus and ignoring other aspects is called __________
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centration
Piagets preoperational |
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The knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearance of objects is called ______.
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conservation
Piaget's Preoperational thinking |
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_________ is the process in which one state is changed into another.
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*Transformation
Piaget's preoperational |
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_____thought does not take into account the viewpoint of others.
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*Egocentric
Piaget's preoperational |
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__________ though reflects preschoolers' use of primitive reasoning and their avid acquisition of knowledge about the world
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*Intuitive
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Broad representations in memory of events and the order in which they occur are called __________.
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*scripts
Information Processing Approaches to COgnitive Dev. |
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According to Vygotsky, the _____ is the l evel at which a child can almost, but not fully, comprehend or perform a task on his or her own.
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*Zone of proximal development
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___________ is the support for learning and problem solving that encourages independence and growth.
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*Scaffolding
Vygotskys View of Cognitive Dev. |
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____________ is the combining of words and phrases to form sentences
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Syntax
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_________ is the process in which new words are associated with their meaning after only a brief encounter
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*Fast mapping
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The system of rules that determin how our thoughts can be expressed is called ________.
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*Grammar
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________ is spoken language not intended for others and commonly used by children during the preschool years.
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*Private speech
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The aspect of language relating to communicating effectively and appropriately with others is called _________.
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*Pragmatics
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________ speech is deirected toward another person and meant to be understood by that person.
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*Social
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________ are places that typically provide care for children all day, while their parents are at work.
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*Child care centers
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________ or nursery schools are designed to provide intellectual and social experiences for youngsters.
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*Child care centers
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________ child care is provided by some local systems in the United States
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*School
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_________ is based on both typical development and the unize characteristics of an individual child.
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*Developmentally appropriate educational practice.
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According to Piaget, during the ________ stage, children's use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases.
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*preoperational
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