Piaget's Theory
What is accommodation?
A process in which more competent people provide a temporary framework that supports children's thinking at a higher level than children can manage on their own.
What is social scaffolding?
The smallest sound units that signal a
change in meaning.
What are phonemes?
T/F - Does better quality home environments cause children to have higher IQ scores
False
The process by which children balance assimilation and
accommodation to create a stable understanding.
What is equilibrium?
These theories believe that children enter the world with specialized learning mechanisms, emphasizing the role of nature.
What are core-knowledge theories?
Two English phonemes, such as /b/ and /p/, occur along an acoustic continuum. This is an example of_______.?
What is categorical perception?
The genetic contribution to intelligence becomes _____ as an individual gets older.
According to Piaget, these psychological structures are organized ways of making sense of experience and change with age.
What are schemas?
This is the mutual understanding that people share during communication.
What is intersubjectivity?
The fact that children expect a novel word to refer to a whole object, not a part.
What is the Whole-object assumption?
List two factors that may impact inconsistent IQ scores when measuring IQ of children?
- child's alertness and mood on test days
- family factors
- changes in environment
According to Piaget, what stage is Elena in, a one year old, who has not mastered the A-not-B search error.
Sensorimotor Stage
Adolescents ability to think systemically, abstractly and reason hypothetically to create conclusions about different concepts.
What is formal operations?
This is the best way to ensure a child grows up to be fully fluent and proficient in more than one language.
Exposing the child to a new language as early as possible.
This scale is a primary measure of the quality of a child's home environment.
What is the Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME) scale?
The idea that merely changing the appearance of objects does not necessarily change the objects' other properties.
What is conservation?
According to sociocultural theorists, when kids engage in ______ speech, they tell themselves aloud what to do.
What is private speech?
The speech perception study by Werker and Tees (1984) showed that at around this age, infants become less sensitive to differences in phonemes in non-native languages.
What is 10-12 months of age?