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What did Piaget believe?
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Piaget believed that cognitive development occurs through the child's actions on the physical environment, which promote the development of schemes.
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What are schemes?
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mental blueprints for actions.
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What is Assimilation?
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Assimilation is the fitting of new experiences into existing schemes.
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What is Accommodation?
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Accommodation is the modifying those schemes to fit with new experiences.
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What are operational schemes?
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Operational schemes are schemes for reversible actions.
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What did Piaget believe was important to cognitive development?
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operational schemes
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What are the four types of schemes?
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Sensorimoter
Preoperational Concrete-operational Formal-operational |
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What did Vygotsky believe was the key to cognitive development?
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Vygotsky considered the child's interaction with the social and cultural environment to be the key to cognitive development, leading to internalization of symbols, ideas, and ways of thinking.
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What kind of memory do children exhibit from infancy?
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Children exhibit implicit long-term memory from early infancy on. However, their explicit memory capacity cannot be assessed until they have sufficient language skills.
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What kind of memory increases as the child grows older.
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Working-memory.
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What takes children a long time to develop? (They usually have developed it by age 4).
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The understanding that beliefs can be false.
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What do people with autism lack?
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People with autism lack motivation and skills for making connections with people.
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What are Morphemes?
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Morphemes are a language's smallest meaningful units.
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What are phonemes?
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Phonemes are elementary vowel and consonant sounds. They are considered to be at the bottom of the language hierarchy.
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