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Sensation

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activation of the sense organs by a source of physical energy

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Perception

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Interpretation analysis and integration of stimuli involving our sense organs and brain

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Visual Activity

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ability to make fine discriminations among elements in a visual array by detecting contours —how well you see

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Preferential Looking

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present two stimuli and measure where they look; looking chamber Franz

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Cataracts

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clounding of part of the lens of eye; If brain doesn’t get vison in first 2 months of life, will never get it

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Face Perception

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infants prefer facelike images over other arrangments

  • New born can discriminate mothers face from a different person
  • Look at hairline
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Early Postnatal Period

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the acquisition, coordination and integration of basic motor development skills
ex: reaching, walking, crawling

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Motor Development Connects what two things

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Cognition and perception of world

ex cams picture of fall

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Motor Development allows kids to do what

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gain independence from parents; experience the world for themselves

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Reflexes

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Involuntary movement in response to touch, light, sound or other stimulation
ex: grasping, rooting, stepping, sucking, moro

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How long till reflexes become voluntary

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4 months

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Rooting

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reflex, touch cheek will rotate head and open mouth-want food
Is a survival technique; goes away after 3-4 months

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Sucking

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Survival

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Stepping

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When holdin gwill try to step on a surface
Precursor to walking, learn coordination, build strength
Goes away when legs get too heavy

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Moro

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Embracing motion created when they feel like they are falling; survival stay close to mom

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Locomotion

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Rolling over, crawling, siting without support, walking alone

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How two things factor into the development of locomotion skills

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Experiences and Motivation

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Cognition

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thought processes and mental activities

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Jean piaget

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father of cognitive development

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Adaptation

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process of gaining knowledge about the world; done by action

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Adaptation Two techniques

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Assimilation & Accomidation

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Assimilation

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Making the environment fit you, want to preserve existing scheme
ex : child call a cat, a dog

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Accommodation

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making yourself fit in with the environment; alter existing scheme

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Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development

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Sensorimotor Period (Birth-2 Years)
preoperational (2-7 Years )
Concrete Operations (7-11 Years)
Formal Operations (11-1`5 Years)
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Object Permanence
the understanding that people and objects exist even when they cannot be seen
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Benefits of understanding child development theories (3)
1. Provide a framework for understanding important phenomena (significance of what we observe) 2. Raise crucial questions about human nature 3. Theories lead to a better understanding of children
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Piaget Theory
from birth we are active mentally physically; children construct knowledge for themselves in response to their experiences Cognitive growth depends on adaption and organization
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Piaget's two basic functions for cognitive growth
Adaption and Organization
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Adapation
tendency to respond to the demands of the environment in ways that meet ones goals
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Organization
tendency to integrate particular observations into coherent knowledge
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Assimilation
process by which people INCORPERATE incoming information into concepts they already understand
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Accommodation
process by which people ADAPT their current undstanding in response to new experiences
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Equilibration
process by which people balance assimilation and accommodation to create understanding
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A not B error
tendency to reach for a object where it was last seen instead of where it was last hidden
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symbolic representation
use of one object to stand for another; takes place in the preoperational stage
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Egocentrism
precieving the world solely from one's own point of view; limitiation puts them in the preoperaltional stage of development
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Centration
focusing on a single, striking feature of a object to the exclusion of other features; takes place Balance scale example; keeps them in preoperational stage
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Conservation Concept
merely changing the appearance of an object does not change its physical features or properties; if cannot understand this then preoperational stage is where they are; ex putting liquid into different typeos of cups
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Preoperaltional Stage
Piaget (2-7 years) Acquire the ability to internally respresent the world through language and mental imagery. See world from other people's perspective; Development of symbolic resprentation Limitiations: Egocentrism and Centration
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Concrete Operational Stage
Piaget (7-12 Years) Children become able to think logically not just intuitively (ability to know or understand without proof). Understand events are often influenced by multiple factors, not just one. REASON LOGICALLY ABOUT CONCRETE FEATURES OF WORLD
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Formal Operational
Piaget (12 years and beyond)-Can think systematically and reason about what might be as well as what is; understand politics, ethics and scientific reasoning CAN THINK ABSTRACTLY AND REASON HYPOTHETICALLY
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Core Knowledge Theories
Has two characteristics approaches that emphasize the sophistication of infants and young childrens thinking in areas that have been important throughout human evolutionary history; depict children as active learners DIFFERS FROM OTHER THEORIES IN THEIR VIEW OF CHILDRENS INNATE CAPABILITIES ; BORN WITH SPECIFIC MECHANISMS THAT ALLOW THEM TO AQUIRE IMPORTANT INFO EFFORTLESSLY
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Contrast sensitivity
ability to detect differences in light and dark areas in a visual pattern
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Cones
light-sensitive neurons that are highly concentrated in the fovea
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visual acuity
sharpness of visual discrimination
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Object Segregation
identification of separate objects in a visual array
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Optical Expansion
visual image of something takes up more of the background, indicating that it is moving closer
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Binocular disparity
idea that the brain gets two different images of an object because we have two eyes
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Stereopsis
process of the visual cortext computing the disparity between the binocular disparity and produces the correct depth perception
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Monocular or pictorial cues
perceptual cues of depth that can be perceived by one eye alone
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auditory localization
perception of the location in space of a sound cource
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SCale errors
attempt to preform a action on a miniature object that is impossible due to sizes; ex child trying to get into a toy car that is the size of his hand
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Violation of Expectancy
a procedure that should evoke a surprise or interest in the child if they are cogtiviley thinking

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