Research
This approach to research can only tell you whether two variables are associated with one another
What is correlational?
Around this age babies take their first steps
What is one year of age?
An example of this type of skill is printing your name (generally accomplished around age four).
What are fine motor skills?
He is considered the father of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The smallest unit of sound in language
What is a phoneme?
The research design that can estbalish whether one variable causes another variable to change
What is an experiment?
A study design used to determine the relative contribution of nature vs nurtore on a given trait
What are twin studies?
Babies are born with these reflexes (name three)
What are babinksi, rooting, moro, startle, sucking….
Bobby insists that when all the milk is poured from a short jug into his tall cup, there is now more milk in his cup than when it was in the jug. According to Piaget, Bobby lacks this concept.
What is conservation?
The music of language, including intonation, tone, stress, and rhythm.
What is prosody?
Baby Joe's mom enrolled Joe in an experiment to see if vitamins promote growth. When she later found out that Joe's "vitamin" was only a sugar pill, she realized he had been placed in which group?
What is the control group?
The study of the relative effects of heredity and the environment on behavior
What is behavioral genetics?
Synaptic pruning refers to the elimination of these
What are neurons and synaptic connections?
Three year old Jane asks her mom to bake a pink cake with a bellerina on it for her dad's birthday. Piaget would say that Jane isn't selfish, rather, she is diaplaying which cognitive developmental concept?
What is egocentricsm?
One word which a baby uses to communicate a whole phrase
What is a holophrase?
The best way to describe the correlation between a child's age and number of baby teeth lost
What is a strong, positive correlation?
The three stages of prenatal development
What are germinal, embryonic, and fetal?
These type of skills include throwing a ball and walking
What are gross motor skills?
Vygotsky's term describing the difference between what a child can do without help, and what they can do with a supportive adult's assistance
What is the zone of proximal development?
The term used to describe the rules governing use of language in a given social setting
What is pragmatics?
These four approaches are best described as descriptive approaches to research.
What are surveys, case studies, interviews, and observations?
A term used to describe cigarette smoking, alcohol use and illicit drug use because of their effects on the developing fetus
What is a teratogen?
The process in which certain cognitive functions are localized to one hemisphere of the brain more so than the other
What is lateralization?
Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development
What are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operations?
The common language error exemplified by Baby Phillip when he refers to all foods he likes as "bananas!"
What is an overextension?