I'm a big kid now
The direction of development that proceeds in a head down direction.
What is cephalocaudal?
A method when two stimuli presented simultaneously and the infant's attention to each is measured.
What is the preference method?
This theory posits that the brain is like a computer.
What is the information-processing theory?
This is the most important milestone of the sensorimotor stage.
What is object permanence?
Rules for meaningful word combinations.
What is syntax?
A primitive thrust related to fine motor skills.
What is a prereach?
These theorists believe perceptual abilities are innate.
This theorist focused on collaboration.
Who is Vygotsky?
In the preoperational stage, children understand that something can stand for or represent something other than itself.
What is symbolic function (or representational insight)?
These theorists emphasize imitation and reinforcement when it comes to language development.
What are learning theorists?
The nerve cells that encase neurons in insulating sheaths of myelin.
What is glia cells?
The fusion of two flat images to produce a single image that has depth.
What is stereopsis?
A laptop at this day in age would be considered what according to Vygotsky?
What is a tool of intellectual adaptation?
What is conservation?
Look I'm BOUNCING the BALL is an example of this.
This contributes to the enhanced efficiency between the more primitive, emotive subcortical areas and the more regulatory prefrontal cortical areas.
What is myelinization?
This would reduce the probability of a recurrence by removing something from a situation.
What is a negative punisher?
The difference between what a learner can accomplish alone and with guidance of a more skilled partner.
What is the zone of proximal development?
Thinking hypothetically in the formal-operational stage.
What is hypothetico-deductive reasoning?
"I wented there" is an example of this error.
What is an overregularization?
This is the master gland at the base of the brain.
What is the pituitary gland?
Recognizing a golf ball by touch instead of by sight.
What is intermodal perception?
This theory posits that existing knowledge is consolidated and automized.
What is Case's Neo-Piagetian Theory?
The largest critique of Piaget's theory.
What is the underestimation of children's capabilities?
Overextensions and underextensions are common errors in this period.
What is the holophrastic period?