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17 Cards in this Set
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Concepts
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general ideas or understandings that can be used to group together objects, events, qualities, or abstractions that are similar in some ways
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Category Hierarchy
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categories that are related by set-subset relations, such as animal/dog/poodle
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Perceptual Categorization
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the grouping together of objects with similar appearances
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Superordinate Level
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the most general level within a category hierarchy, such as "animal" in the animal/dog/poodle example
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Subordinate Level
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the most specific level within a category hierarchy
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Basic Level
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the middle level, and often the first level learned, within a category hierarchy
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Naive Psychology
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a commonsense level of understanding of other people and oneself
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Theory of Mind
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a basic understanding of how the mind works and how it influences behavior
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False-Belief Problems
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tasks that test a child's understanding that other people will act in accord with their own beliefs even when the child knows that those beliefs are incorrect
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Theory of Mind Module (TOMM)
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a hypothesized brain mechanism devoted to understanding other human beings
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Pretend Play
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make-believe activities in which children create new symbolic relations
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Object Substitution
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a form of pretense in which an object is used as something over than itself
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Sociodramatic Play
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activities in which children enact minidramas with other children or adults
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Essentialism
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the view that living things have an essence inside them that makes them what they are
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Egocentric Representations
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coding of spatial locations relative to one's own body, without regard to the surroundings
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Numerical Equality
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the realization that all sets of N objects have something in common
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Subitizing
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a process by which adults and children can look at a few objects and almost immediately know how many objects are present
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