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16 Cards in this Set
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information processing
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-childs thinking becomes more efficient
-memory -habituation |
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habituation
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learning not to respond
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infantile amnesia
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forgetting what happened in infancy and early childhood. cuz of different storage techniques (toybox to library)
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Piaget's Ideas about cognitive development
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-children know differently, not less.
-children are little scientists and philosophers. |
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schema
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-mental molds in which we pour our experiences.
-mental frameworks for organizing and interpreting |
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2 types of adaptation
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-assimilation
-accommodation |
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assimilation
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incorporating new experiences into our current understanding
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accommodation
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changing our understanding to fit new experiences.
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Piaget's stages
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-sensorimotor (birth - 2years)
-preoperational (2-7 years) -concrete operational (7-11) -formal operational (11-adult) |
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sensorimotor schema
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babies take in the world by looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping.
definitions in action and perception |
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object permanence
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-recognition that the world continues to exist.
-children under 6 months of age dont grasp object permanence. -objects out of sight and out of mind. -at 8 months, out of sight ISN'T out of mind |
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preopertaional stage
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magical thinking is not logical, or scientific
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animism
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belief that everything is alive, with human qualities
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artificialism
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belief that everything is made by someone
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egocentrism
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inability to perceive things from another's point of view
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representational thinking
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pretend play - letting one thing stand for another
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