Can you hear me now?
A single word that is used to express a complete, meaningful thought.
What is holophrase?
A sequence in which and infant first perceives something done by someone else and then performs the same action hours or even days later.
What is deferred imitation?
Functional magnetic resonance imaging, a measuring technique in which the brain’s electrical excitement indicates activation anywhere in the brain; this helps researchers locate neurological responses to stimuli.
What is an fMRI?
Perception that is primed to focus on mood and change.
What is dynamic perception?
The first of three types of feedback loops in sensorimotor intelligence, this one involving the infant’s own body. The infant senses motion, sucking, noise, and other stimuli and tries to understand them.
What are primary circular reactions?
Chomsky’s term for a hypothesized mental structure that enables humans to learn language, including the basic aspects of grammar, vocabulary, and intonation.
What is Language acquisition device (LAD?)
The process of becoming accustomed to an object or even repeated exposure to it, and thus becoming less interested in it.
What is habitation?
The average number of words and meaningful sounds (such as -ing and huh?) in a typical sentence (called utterance, because children may not talk in complete sentences) it is often used to indicate how advanced a child’s language development is.
What is mean length of utterance? (MLU)
An experimental apparatus that gives the illusion of a sudden drop-off between one horizontal surface and another.
What is a visual cliff?
The second of three types of feedback loops in sensorimotor intelligence, this one involving people and objects. Infants respond to other people, to toys, and to any other object they can touch or move.
What are secondary circular reactions?
A sudden increase in an infant’s vocabulary, especially in the number of nouns, that begins at 18 months of age.
What is naming explosion?
The realization that objects(including people) still exist when they can no longer been seen, touched, or heard.
What is object permanence?
A perspective that compares human thinking processes, by analogy, to computer analysis of data, including sensory input connections, stored memories, and output.
What is the information processing theory?
An opportunity for perception and interaction that is offered by a person, place, or object in the environment.
What is affordance?
The third of three types of feedback loops in sensorimotor intelligence, this one involving active exploration and experimentation. Infants explore a range of new activities, varying their responses as a way of learning about the world.
What are tertiary circular reactions?
All the methods - word order, verb forms, and so on - that languages use to communicate meaning, apart from the words themselves.
What is grammar?
The stage five toddler (age 12 to 18 months) who experiments without anticipating the results, using trial and error in active and creative exploration.
What is "little scientist"?
A perceptual experience that helps a person recollect an idea, a thing, or an experience.
What is a reminder session?
The high-pitched, simplified, and repetitive way adults speak to infants and children. (Also called baby talk or motherese.)
What is child directed speech?
Piaget’s term for the way infants think - by using their motor skills - during the first period of cognitive development
What is sensorimotor intelligence?
A universal principle of infant perception, specifically an innate attraction to other humans, evident in visual, auditory, and other preferences.
What is people preference?