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assimilation

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assimilating new information into what you already know. putting it into an already existing schema

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accomadation

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creating new schemas or changing the way one thinks about something to interpret new information

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primary circular reactions

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1-4 months. simple motor habits based around infants body.

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secondary circular reactions

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4-8 months. imitations of familiar behavior nad interesting effects

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coordination of secondary circular reactions

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8-12 months. intentional/goal reached behavior

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tertiary circular reactions

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exploring objects by acting on them in novel ways.

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mental representation

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18-24 months. internal depictions of objects or events

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sensorimotor period

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0-2 yrs. 6 sub stages. infants/toddlers using their senses to think

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egocentrism

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not being able to see things from a perspective other than your own

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progressive decentering

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infant gradually being able to distinguish themselves /their own perspectives from others

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substage 1 - exercising reflexes

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infants use their reflexes to interact with the world (birth - 1 month)

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substage 2 - developing schemes

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reflexes are becoming sensorimotor schemes, there are organized patterns (1-4 months)

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substage 3 - discovering procedures

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after discovering an interesting procedure, infant may try to create that procedure again (4-8 months)

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substage 4 - intentional behavior

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infant has intentional and goal reached behavior. Uses schemes to solve problems

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invariants

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knowledge of what remains constant in a world of change

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object permanence

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knowledge that even if you cannot see an object under a blanket it is still there/still exists

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A not B search error

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when object is placed under A, they are able to know it is still there. But even if seen being placed under B, they cannot tell it is still there.

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substage 5 - novelty/exploration

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Have accurate A-B search. Acting on objects in novel ways. (12-18 months)

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substage 6 - mental representations

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Can now use their mental representations to solve problems, can solve invisible displacement and have deferred imitation

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deferred imitation

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ability to remember a models behavior, remember it and copy it later

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make believe play

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acting out every day / imaginative activities

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violation of expectation method

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assessing infants physical reality knowledge based on attention to expected vs. unexpected events

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inferred imitation

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older toddlers guessing what others intentions may be and try to imitate what that could be

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preoperational stage

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advances in mental representation showed by symbolism

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dual representation

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ability to see an object both as what it is as well as a symbol for something else

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qualitative identity

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realization that the nature of something is not changed by physical appearance

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limitations of preoperational period

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egocentrism, animistic thinking

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conservation

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idea that physical characteristics do not change even though outward appearance changes

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centration

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focusing on one part of a situation while ignoring other important parts

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irreversibility

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ability to go through a series of steps then be able to work backwards from last step to first

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hierarchal classification

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organization of objects into classes/subclasses based on their similarities or differences

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concrete operational stage

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7-12 years. thinking more logically, flexible and organized. can solve decentration and reversibility problems

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class - inclusion

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knowing a sub class cannot be larger than the class it stems from

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seriation

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ability to order things along along a quantitative dimension (length, weight)

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transitive inference

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ability to seriate mentally / logically and deduce necessary conclusions

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cognitive maps

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mental representations of physical spaces

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continuum of acquisition

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mastering concrete operation tasks one at a time

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information processing view

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operational thinking represents expansion of information processing

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zone of proximal development

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Vygotsky. Tasks a child cannot do but can do with encouragement

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intersubjectivity

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two people start a task with different understanding but end up at a shared understanding

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scaffolding

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adjusting support level child needs to fit the current level of performance.

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private speech

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speaking the way through a problem. foundation for higher tasks and comes out more when tasks are more challenging

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inner speech

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private speech becomes internalized as time goes by. used longer and more often by kids with learning disabilities

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challenges of vygotskys view

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does not talk about motor development. children do not only learn by using dialogue. does not say much about perception or memory

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sensory store

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sights and sounds are represented momentarily and and represented directly

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long term memory

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permanent information storage

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short term memory

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information only held for a few seconds at a time in order for the brain to “work” on it

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mental strategies

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strategies used to operate on or transform information as it moves from short term to long term memory

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central executive

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manages activities and enables complex thinking. reflective part of mental system

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automatic process

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information so well known that it does not take up space in memory

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recognition memory

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simple cognition. realizing you have seen this information/stimulus before

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recall memory

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ability to retrieve information in the absence of a stimulus

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characteristics of infant memory

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infants use schemes when they come into contact with something they have seen before. show preference to mothers voice and recognition is perfected.

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categorization

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even infants can reduce amount of information that is given to them by categorizing the information

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3 memory strategies

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  1. Rehearsal - reading over and over (flashcards) 2. organization - cognitive maps for information 3. elaboration - connecting new information to something you already know
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infantile amnesia

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infants seem to not have any long term memory until about 2-3 years of age

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episodic memory

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memory of specific events or every day events like “episodes” of a tv show

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semantic memory

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memory of general knowledge

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cognitive flexibility

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ability to shift between different viewpoints of a conflict

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working memory

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keeping track or manipulating information as it comes into the short term memory

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inhibitory control

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ability to inhibit or suppress a response

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attention

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gradually improves over time. can be fostered by caregivers by focusing on their current interest.

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inhibiting impulses

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happens around 6-10 years. by this time they can solve the marshmallow experiment and also have attention shifting

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planning

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thinking about a sequence ahead of time, performing steps in order

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problem solving

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ability to solve a task that is given. drastically improves in early childhood

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rules

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combining information and making judgments. a form of planning in early childhood

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short term memory storage space

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allows for complex reasoning and problem solving

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reasoning by analogy

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reflection of knowledge about items or relations

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overlapping waves theory

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children try out different strategies, decide which is best, then select it. this also displays autonomic retrieval

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ADHD

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deficits in executive functions inability to stay focused for longer periods of time and is highly heritable

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direct training

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providing direct working memory training

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indirect training

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exercise or mindful training to train the working memory

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philosophical mind

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how do we know what others think, feel, believe?

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social cognitive abilities

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use of internal state words (i think)

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psychological problem

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we cannot perceive others mental states, we can only infer them

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metacognition

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thinking about the way you think

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theory of mind age 1

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view people as intentional beings that can have an influence on each other

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theory of mind age 2

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clearer grasp of others emotions/feelings (first verb is usually mental state words)

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theory of mind age 3

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thinking is internal but the focus is on behavior that is consistent with desires.

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theory of mind age 4

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beliefs or desires determine behavior. false beliefs become more apparent.

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process oriented approach

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infants acquire social understanding through interactions

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mental inferences

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knowledge of false beliefs and second order false beliefs

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recursive thoughts

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ability to see a situation from two different perspectives

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nativist theory

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Chomsky. language is etched into structure pf human brain

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language acquisition device (LAD)

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innate system with universal grammar that is common to all languages.

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Brocas area

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supports language reproduction

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wernickes area

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comprehension of language

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limitations of nativist theory

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difficulty specifying universal grammar, observations show that more learning is involved

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interactionist approach

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interactions between environmental and inner capacities creates language. specific brain structures help higher language learning

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social interactionist view

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active child strives to communicate and lets caregivers know when they need to provide language experiences

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cooing

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vowel-like noises from an infant (first sounds)

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babbling

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repeated consonant vowel combonations

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joint attention

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child attends to same object as the caregiver

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preverbal gestures

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end of the first year. direct adult attention

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infant directed speech

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communications with short sentences with exaggerated high pitched experession, clear punctuation and distinct pauses

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speech building on babbling

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children learn words faster if they already have the sounds/syllables they are already using

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under extension

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using words too narrowly

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overextension

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using words to broadly

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coining

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creating new words that are not a part of the adult language

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fast mapping

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once children have heard something once, they can immediately remember it if it is brought up again

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referential style

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language used to label things

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expressive style

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language used as a pragmatic tool to express needs or social interaction

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mutual exclusivity bias

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assumption that words refer to totally different categories (hearing new words that word seems to mean something brand new even though it may not)

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syntactic bootstrapping

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figuring out the meaning of a word by how it is used in syntax

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coalition of cues

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perceptual/social/linguistic - shift is important with age

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whole object assumption

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a new noun refers to a whole object instead of its constituent parts

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shape bias

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a new word extends to things that are of similar shape

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lexical contrast

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children assume a new word has a totally different meaning than any other word they know

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grammatical cues

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using cues from sentence structure to find word meaning

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telegraphic speech

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toddlers using high content words and cutting out shorter and less important words (go apple juice store, leaving out get, and at the store)

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overregularization

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overextension of grammatical rules to words that are exceptions (runned, goed)

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competition model

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children weigh possible cues in terms of availability and reliability

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pragmatics

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effective and appropriate communications that involve taking turns, stating messages clearly, conforming to social rules

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meta linguistic awareness

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ability to think about language as a system

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middle childhood (language)

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children can now adapt to the needs of their listeners and evaluate clarity of others messages

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code switching

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changing seamlessly between two languages in a singe conversation

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Vygotsky (language)

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language precedes thought

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Piaget (language)

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cognition precedes language

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