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17 Cards in this Set
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Preoperational Stage |
according to Piaget, the stage from approximately age two to seven in which children's use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases |
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Operations |
organized, formal, logical metal processes |
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Centration |
the process of concentrating on one limited aspect of a stimulus and ignoring other aspects |
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Conservation |
the knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearance of objects |
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Transformation |
the process in which one state is changed into another |
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Egocentric Thought |
thinking that does not take into account the viewpoints of others |
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Intuitive Thought |
thinking that reflects preschoolers use of primitive reasoning and their avid acquisition of knowledge about the world |
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Autobiographical Memory |
memory of particular events from one's own life |
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Scripts |
broad representations in memory of events and the order in which they occur |
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Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) |
according to Vygotsky, the level at which a child can almost, but not fully, perform a task independently, but can do so with the assistance of someone more competent |
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Scaffolding |
the support for learning and problem solving that encourages independence and growth |
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Syntax |
the way in which an individual combines words and phrases to form sentences |
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Fast Mapping |
instances in which new words are associated with their meaning after only a brief encounter |
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Grammar |
the system of rules that determines how our thoughts can be expressed |
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Private Speech |
speech by children that is spoken and directed to themselves |
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Pragmatics |
the aspect of language that relates to communicating effectively and appropriately with others |
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Social Speech |
speech directed toward another person and meant to be understood by that person |
