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28 Cards in this Set
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Plasticity |
the tendency of new parts of the brain to take up the functions of the injured parts |
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Gross motor skills |
Skills and pulling the large muscles used in locomotion |
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Fine motor skills |
Skills in playing the small muscles used in manipulation such as those in the fingers |
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Sleep terrors |
Frightning dream like experiences that occur during the deepest stage of nonrem sleep shortly after the child hasgone to sleep |
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Somnambulism |
Sleep walking |
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Enuresis |
Failure to control the bladder |
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Bed wetting |
Failure to control the bladder during the night |
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Encopresis |
Failure to control the bowels once the normal age for bowel control has been reached soiling |
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Preoperational stage |
2nd stage piagets scheme. Inflexible and irreversible mental manipulation of symbols |
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Symbolic play |
Play in which children make believe that objects and toys are other then what they are pretend play |
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Egocentrism |
Putting oneself at the center of things such as that one is unable to perceive the world from another persons point of view |
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Precausal |
A type of thought in which natural cause and effect relationships are attributed to Will and other pre-operational Concepts |
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Animism |
The attribution of life and intentionally to inanimate objects |
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Artificialism |
The belief that environmental features were made by people |
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Conservation |
Incognitive physiology the principle that properties of substances such as weight and mass remain the same when superficial characteristics such as their ships or arrangements are changed |
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Centration |
Focusing on an aspect or characteristic of a situation or problem |
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Class inclusion |
Category Rising a new object or concept as belonging to a broader group of objects or concepts |
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Scaffolding |
V term for temporary cognitive structures or methods of solving problems that help the child as he or she learns to function independently |
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Zone of proximal development |
V term the situation in which a child carries out tasks with the help of someone who is more skilled frequently an adult who represents the culture in which the child develops |
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Theory of mind |
Commonsense understanding of how the mind works |
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Appearance reality distinction |
The difference between real events on the one hand and mental events fantasies and misleading appearances on the other hand |
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Scripts |
Abstract generalized a concert from earlier repeated events |
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Autobiographical memory |
Memory of specific episodes or events |
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Rehearsal |
Repetition |
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Fast mapping |
A process of quickly determining a words meaning which facilitates children's vocabulary development |
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Whole object assumption |
That was referred to her obviously not their component parts or characteristics |
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Contrast assumption |
The assumption that objects have only one label |
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Overregularization |
The application of regular grammatical rules for forming inflections to irregular verbs and nouns |
