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23 Cards in this Set
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Obesity
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Body weight that more than 20% higher than the average weight for a person of given age and height.
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Lateralization
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The process in which certian congnitive functions are located more in one hemisphere of the brain than in the other.
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Handedness
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The preference of using one hand over another.
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Preoperantional Stage
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According to Piaget, the stage from approx. age 2 to age 7 in which children's use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increase.
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Operations
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Organized, formal, logical, mental process.
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Centration
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The process of concentrating on one limited aspect of stimulus and ignoring other aspects.
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Conservation
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The knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearance of objects.
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Transformation
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The process in which one state is changed into another.
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Egoncentric
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Thinking that does not take into account the viewpoints of others.
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intuitive thought
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Thinking that reflects preschools' use of primitive reasoning and their avid acquisition of knowledge.
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Autobiographical memory
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Memory of particular events from one's own life.
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Scripts
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Broad representations in memory of events and the order in which they occur.
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Vygotsky
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Proposed that focus of cognitive development should be on a child's social and cultural world. Versus Piaget, concentrating on individual performance.
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Zone of Proximal Development ZPD, Vygotsky
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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
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The support for learning and problem solving that encourages independences and growth.
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Synatx
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The way in which an individual combines words and phrases to form sentences.
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Fast Mapping
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Instances in which new words are associated with their meaning after only a brief encounter.
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Grammar
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The system of rules that determines how our thoughts can be expressed.
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Private Speech
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Speech by children that is spoken and directed to themselves.
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Pragmatic
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The aspect of language that relates to communicating effectively and appropriately with others.
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Social Speech
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Speech directed towards another person and meant to be understood by that person.
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Child Care Centers
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Places outside the home that provide care for children.
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Developmentally Appropriate Educational Pratice
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Education that is based on both typical development and the unique characteristics of a given child.
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