Chapter 6

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1st of 3 types of feedback loops in sensorimotor intelligence, this one involving the infants own body. The infant senses motion, sucking, noise, & other stimuli & tries to understand them.

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primary circular reactions

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Piaget’s term for the way infants think- by using their senses & motor skills- during the 1st period of cognitive development

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sensorimotor intelligence

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2nd of 3 types of feedback loops in sensorimotor intelligence, this one involving people & objects. Infants respond to other people, to toys, & to any other object they can touch or more.

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secondary circular reactions

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realization that objects (including people) still exist when they can no longer be seen, touched or heard

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object permanence

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3rd of 3 types of feedback loops in sensorimotor intelligence, this one involving active exploration & experimentation. Infants explore a range of new activities, varying their responses as a way of learning about the world

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tertiary circular reactions

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the stage-5 toddler (age 12-18 months) who experiments w/o anticipating the results, using trial & error in active & creative exploration

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“little scientist”

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a sequence in which an infant first perceives something done by someone else & then performs the same action hours or even days later

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deferred imitation

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a perceptual experience that helps a person recollect an idea, a thing, or an experience

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reminder session

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unconscious or automatic memory that is usually stored via habits, emotional responses, routine procedures, & various sensations

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implicit memory

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memory that is easy to retrieve on demand (as in a specific test) most explicit memory involves consciously learned words, data & concepts

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explicit memory

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the high-pitched, simplified & repetitive way adults speak to infants & children (also called baby talk or motherless)

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child-directed speech

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an infants repetition of certain syllables such as ba-ba- ba, that begins when babies are between 6 & 9 months old

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babbling

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single word that is used to express a complete, meaningful though

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halophrase

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a sudden increase in an infants vocabulary, especially in the number of nouns, that begins at about 18 months of age

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naming explosion

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all the methods- word order, verb forms, & so on- that languages use to communicate meaning, apart from the words themselves

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grammar

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average # of words in a typical sentence (called utterance, because children meg not talk in complete sentences). MLU is often used to indicate how advanced a child’s language development is

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mean length of utterance (MLU)

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signing (3-6months)

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cooing

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two word sentences

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duos