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26 Cards in this Set
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schemes |
organized patterns of functioning that adapt and change with mental development |
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assimilation |
the process by which people understand an experiance in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking |
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accomodation |
changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events |
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object permanance |
realization that people and things exist even when they cannot be seen. |
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mental representation |
an internal image of past even or object |
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deferred imitation |
an act in which a person who is no longer present is imitated by children who have witnessed a similar act. |
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information processing approaches |
the model that seeks to identify the way that individuals take in, use, and store information |
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memory |
The process by which information is initially recorded, stored, and retrieved |
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infantile amnesia |
lack of memory for experiences that occured prior to 3 y.o.a |
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developmental quotient |
overall developmental score that relates to performance in four domains: motor skills, language use, adaptive behavior, personal-social skills |
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Bayley Scale of Infant Development |
a measure that evaluates an infants development from two to forty-two months in two areas: mental and motor abilities |
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language |
systematic, meaningful arrangement of symbols, which provides the basis for communication |
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babbling |
speech like meaningless sounds |
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holopase |
on word utterances that stand in for an entire phrase |
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telegraphic speech |
speech where non-critical words are left out |
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underexentions |
overly restictive use of words |
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overextensions |
overly broad use of words or exageration |
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referential style |
style of language use in which language is used to primarily lable objects |
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expressive styl |
language used to express feelings |
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learning theory approach to language |
theory that language acquisitions follows the basic laws of reinforcement and conditioning |
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navist sapproach to language |
the teory that a genetically determined, innate mechanism directs language from development |
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universal grammar |
noam chomsky's theory that all the world's languages share a similar underlying structure |
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language acquisition device (LAD) |
a neural system of the brain hypothesized to permit understanding of language |
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infant directed speech |
a type of speech directed towards infants, characterized by short, simple sentences |
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explicit memory |
memory that is conscious and can be recalled intentionally. |
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implicit memory |
behavior consists of memories of which are not consciously aware but that affect performance and |
