Psychology 2314--Chapter 7- Physical And Cognitive Development In Early Childhood

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Corpus callosum

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The membrane that connects the right and the left hemispheres of the cerebral cortex

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Lateralization

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The process through which brain functions are divided between the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex

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Hippocampus

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A brain structure that is important in learning

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Handedness

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A strong preference for using one hand or the other that develops between 3 and 5 years of age

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Semiotic (symbolic) function

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The understanding thst one object or behavior can represent another

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Preoperational stage

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Piaget's second stage of cognitive development, during which children become proficient in the use of symbols in thinking and communicating but still have difficulty thinking logically

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Egocentrism

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A young child's belief that everyone sees and experiences the world the way she does

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Centration

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A young child's tendency to think of the world in terms of one variable at a time

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Conservation

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The understanding that matter can change in apperance without changong the quantity

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Theory of mind

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A set of ideas constructed by a child or an adult to explain other people's ideas, beliefs, desires, and behavior

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False-belief principle

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An understanding that enables a child to look at a situation from another persons point of view and determine what kind of information will cause that person to have to a false belief

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Short-term storage space (STSS)

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neo-Piagetian theorist Robbie Case's term for the working memory

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Operational effeciency

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A neo-Piagetian term that refers to the maximum number of schemes that can be processed in working memory at one time

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Metamemory

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Knowledge about how memory works and the ability to control and reflect on one's own memory function

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Metacognition

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Knowledge abput how the mind thinks and the ability to control and reflect on one's own thought processes

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Fast-mapping

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The ability to categorically link new words to real-world referents

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Grammar explosion

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The period during when the grammatical features of children's speech become more similar to those of adult speech

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Overregularization

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Attachment of regular inflections to irregular words, such as the substitution of "goed" for went

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Phonological awareness

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Children's understanding of the sound patterns of the language they are aquiring

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Invented spelling

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A strategy young children with good phonolpgical awareness skills use when they write

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Intelligence quotient

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The ratio of mental age to chronological age; also, a general term for any kind of score derived from an intelligence test

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Reaction range

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A range, established by ones genes, between upper and lower boundaries for traits such as intelligence; one's environment determines where, within those limits, one will be.