Piaget
organized ways of making sense of experience
What are schemes?
Theory that discusses how we hold information in three parts of a mental system for processing
What is information processing theory
the range of tasks that a child cannot yet handle alone but can do with the help of more skilled partners
What is the zone of proximal development?
The time period during an age span in which the brain is particularly responsive to language stimulation
What is a sensitive period?
Infants gradually become more efficient at managing this taking in information more quickly with age
What is attention?
The Piagetian stage that spans the first two years of life
What is the sensorimotor stage
The place where sights and sounds are represented directly and stored briefly
What is the sensory register?
When the adult guides and supports a child adjusting the level of support offered to fit the child's current level of performance
What is scaffolding?
Theory of language development which proposes that language is acquired through operant conditioning
What is behaviorism?
The understanding that objects continue to exist when they are out of sight
What is object permanence?
This involves building schemes through direct interaction with the environment
What is adaptation?
Considered to be the third and largest storage area of the brain which is a permanent knowledge base and perhaps unlimited
What is long term memory?
Practices based upon standards devised by the United States National Association for the Education of Young Children
What is developmentally appropriate practice
Theory of language development in which one believes that language is a uniquely human accomplishment etched into the structure of the brain.
What is the nativist perspective?
Internal depictions of information that the mind can manipulate
During this we use our current schemes to interpret our external world
What is assimilation?
The second part of the mind in which we actively apply mental strategies as we work on a limited amount of information
What is the working or short term memory?
Famous study that supports good quality, early pre- school
What is the Carolina Abecedarian Study?
AN innate system that contains a universal grammar or set of rules common to all languages
What is a language acquisition device?
Type of research which measures babies attention to novel stimuli and then eventual boredom with it
What is habituation research?
This involves stumbling onto a new experience caused by the baby's own motor activity and then trying to repeat the event again and again
What is a circular reaction?
The part of working memory that directs the flow of information
What is the central executive?
The ability to copy the behavior of models who are not present and makes make believe play possible
What is deferred imitation?
The theory of language development where one believes that both nature and nurture are at play
What is the interactionist perspective?
The perspective that babies are born with a set of innate knowledge systems or core domains of thought
What is the core knowledge perspective