Ch. 7 Vocab Flashcards
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corpus callosum
the membrane that connects the right and left hemispheres of cerebral cortex
lateralization
the process though which brain functions are divided between the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex
hippocampus
a brain structure that is important in learning
handedness
a strong preference for using one hand or the other that develops between 3 and 5 years of age
semiotic (symbolic) function
the understanding that one object or behavior can represent another
pre operational stange
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
egocentrism
a young child’s belief that everyone sees and experiences the world the way she does
centration
a young child’s tendency to think of the world in terms of one variable at a time
conservation
the understanding the matter can change in appearance without changing in quality
theory of mind
a set of ideas constructed by a child or an adult to explain other people’s ideas, beliefs, desires, and behavior
false-belief principle
an understanding that enables a child to look at a situation from another persons’s point of view and determine what kind of information that will cause that person to have false belief
short-term storage space (STSS)
neo-Piagetian theorist Robbie Cases’s term for the working memory
operational efficiency
a neo-Piagetian term that refers to the maximum numbers of schemes that cane processed in working memory at one time
metamemory
knowledge about how memory works and the ability to control and reflect on one’s own memory function
metacognition
knowledge about how the mind thinks and the ability to control and reflect on one’s own thought processes
fast-mapping
the ability to categorically link new words to real-world referents
grammar explosion
the period during when the grammatical features of children’s speech become more similar to those of adult speech
over regularization
attachment of regular inflection to irregular words, scubas the substitution of “goed” for “went”
phonological awareness
children’s understanding of the sound patterns of the language they are acquiring
invented spelling
a strategy young children with good phonological awareness skills use when they write
intelligence quotient (IQ)
the ratio of mental age to chronological age; also, a general term for any kind of score drives from an intelligence test
reaction range
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