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Quiz 2 Flashcards

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Assimilation

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Incorporate new information or experience into existing knowledge schemes.

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Accommodation

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Adjust existing schemes to take in new information and experience.

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Organization

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Grouping isolated behaviors into higher-order cognitive system. Undergoes continual refinement and cognitive organization of experiences.

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Disequilibrium

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Cognitive conflict motivation for change.

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Equilibrium

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Explanation of cognitive shift (qualitative) from one stage of thought to next.

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Theory

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Unifies experiences and biological maturation to explain cognitive development. Motivation is internal search for equilibrium.

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Sensorimotor Stage

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Infants coordinate sensory experiences with motor actions. Object permanence.

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Preoperational Stage

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Second stage. Children represent world with words, images and drawings. Not ready to perform operations.

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Intuitive Thought

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Substage of Preoperational. Use of primitive thinking, seeks answers to all sorts of questions.

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Symbolic Function

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Substage of Preoperational. Gain ability to mentally represent an object that’s not present.

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Egocentrism

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Inability to distinguish own view from another’s view.

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Animism

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Lifelike qualities given to inanimate objects.

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Centration

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Focusing attention on one characteristic to exclusion of all others.

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Conservation

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Object or substance amount stays same regardless of changing appearance; lacking in preoperational stage.

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Concrete Operational Stage

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7-11 years. Logical reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning if applied to specific examples. Understands who is father, mother, brother.

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Seriation

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Involves stimuli along quantitative dimension.

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Transitivity

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Relationships between objects.

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Formal Operational Stage

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11-15. Abstract logical way. Solving ability increases.

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Hypothetical- deductive reasoning

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Cognitive ability to develop hypothesis and systematically find best way to solve problem.

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Imaginary Audience

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Others are interested in them as they are. Desire to be noticed, visible.

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Personal Fable

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Adolescents sense of uniqueness and invincibility.

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Piaget’s Theory

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Vision of children as active and constructive thinkers.

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Vygoysky’s Theory

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Proposed that children learn through their surrounding culture and interactions.

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Zone of proximal development

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Difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help. Range of tasks too difficult for child to master alone.

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Scaffolding

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Learning process designed to promote a deeper learning. Scaffolding is the support given during the learning process which is tailored to the needs of the student with the intention of helping the student achieve his/her learning goals.

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Private speech

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speech spoken to oneself for communication, self-guidance, and self-regulation of behavior. 3-7 years of age. Inner speech: child’s thoughts.

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Realistic Thinking

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See the world as it is and accepts it as is - does not try to change anything.

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Pragmatic Thinking

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wishes the world was a better place but recognizes what it actually is - tries to improve things but recognizes that nothing changes overnight and that some things will never change.

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Reflective thinking

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Process of analyzing, evaluating, and making judgements about what has happened.

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Relativistic Thinking

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Thinking using both reason and intuition.

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Postformal Thought

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Thinking is less abstract and less absolute than formal operational thought. Provisional, realistic and open to emotions and subjective.

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Information processing approach

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Analyzes the way people process information about their world. Effectiveness involves stimulus, attention, memory and thinking.

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Encoding

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Information enters memory

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Automaticity

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Ability to process information with little or no effort

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Strategy construction

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Discovering new procedure for processing information

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Metacognition

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Cognition about cognition or knowing about knowing

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Attention

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Focusing of mental resources.

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Infancy

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Orienting and investigative process.

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Selective attention

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Focusing on specific aspect of experience that is relevant while ignoring others

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Divided attention

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Concentrating on more than one activity at a time.

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Sustained attention

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Maintain focus on selected stimulus over prolonged period. Called vigilance.

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Executive attention

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Focus on action planning, goals, errors and compensation and unknown.

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Infancy Attention

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Habituation, Dishabituation, joint attention, gaze following.

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Childhood Attention

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Attention control increases.

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Adolescence Attention

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Processing of irrelevant information decreases, ability to shift from one activity to another at will, better at multi-tasking.

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Adulthood Attention

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May not be able to focus on relevant information, less adept at selective attention.

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Implicit Memory

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Memory without conscious recollection; skills and routine done automatically.

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Explicit Memory

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Conscious memory of facts and experiences; appears after 6 months

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Infantile Amnesia

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Childhood amnesia, adults recall little or none of first three years, prefrontal lobes in brain play important role.

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Short-term memory

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Retains information up to 15 to 30 seconds without rehearsal (span is very limited)

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Working Memory

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Mental workbench for manipulating and assembling information. More active and powerful than short-term memory.

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Long-term memory

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Permanent, unlimited memory.

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Imagery

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Works better for older children; creating mental images for verbal information.

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Elaboration

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Adolescents more likely to use; engaging in more extensive processing of information, use of examples and self referencing.

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Fuzzy Trace Memory

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Verbatim memory trace and gist

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Verbatim Memory Trace

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Precise details

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Gist

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Central idea of information. Children use gist more as they grow up. Fuzzy traces are built up; more enduring.

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Knowledge

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Influences why people notice and how they organize, represent, interpret information.

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Episodic Memory

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Episodic memory is a category of long-term memory that involves the recollection of specific events, situations and experiences.

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Semantic Memory

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Semantic memory is the portion of long term memory which is concerned with ideas, meanings, and concepts which are not related to personal experiences.

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Source memory

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vivid and substantially accurate memories of events which are erroneous in one key aspect

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Meta cognition

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Knowledge about when and where to use particular strategies

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Theory of mind

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the ability to attribute mental states—beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge, etc.—to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs, desires and intentions that are different from one’s own

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Infinite Generativity

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Ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finith set of words and rules

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Phonology

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Sound system of language; how the sounds are used

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Morphology

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Morphemes: units of meaning in word formation

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Syntax

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Ways words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences

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Semantics

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Meanings of words and sentences

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Pragmatics

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Appropriate use of language in context; can be complex

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Referential

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Words that refer to objects

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Expressive

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Greater use of pronouns and socially linked words

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Telegraphic speech

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Short and precise words without grammatical markers

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Satire

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Use of irony, derision, or wit to expose folly or wickedness

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Dialect

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Variety of language distinguished by vocabulary grammar or pronunciation

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Wernicke’s area

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In brains left hemisphere involving language comprehension

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Broca’s Area

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In brains left frontal lobe involved in speech production

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Aphasia

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Language disorder resulting from brain-damage; loss of ability to use words

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Chomsky

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Humans biologically prewired for language

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Language acquisition device (LAD)

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Biological at endowment to detect features, rules of language

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Interactionist view of language

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Language has strong biological foundations, acquisition influenced by experience, enriched environments have more positive affect

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Bruner

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Stresses roles of parents and teachers help construct language acquisition support system (LASS)

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Recasting

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Building on what the child is saying in the form of a question

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Expanding

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Building on what the child is saying

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Labeling

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Helping the child identify an object of an incident.

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What are emotions?

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Biological roots, but shapes by culture and relationships.

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Emotion-coaching approach

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Monitor child’s emotions. Negative emotion is a coaching opportunity.

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Emotion-dismissing approach

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Deny, ignore negative emotions. Linked to poor emotional regulation in child.

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