This requires an adjustment of previous schemas upon new information
What is Accommodation?
100
Age when Babbling begins
What is 6-9 months?
100
Spoken world-wide, directed at babies, and consists of high-pitched, simplified & repetitive adult speech
What is Baby Talk or Motherese?
200
it is the awareness that people and objects exist even when they are no longer in sight
What is Object Permanence
200
Name the 3 general theories of language learning
Theory 1 = Infants are Taught
Theory 2 = Infants teach Themselves
Theory 3 = Social Impulses foster Infant Language
200
The process of getting "used to"/bored with a stimulus after repeated exposure
What is Habituation?
300
This is taking new information in by incorporating it into previous "schemas" (categories)
What is Assimilation?
300
this person proposed that infants are innately ready to use their minds to understand and speak whatever language is offered
Who is Chomsky?
300
Sensorimotor feedback loop/circular reaction involving PEOPLE AND OBJECTS where infant is responsive to things that can be manipulated
What is the Secondary Circular Reaction?
400
When infants can copy the behavior of others, even days later
What is Deferred Imitation?
400
He said that infants (18-24 months) begin to anticipate and solve simple problems by using mental combinations
Who is Piaget
400
Sensorimotor feedback loop/circular reaction involving INFANTS OWN BODY through SENSING WITH THEIR REFLEXES (sucking/touching) and attempting to understand those sensations
What is the Primary circular reaction?
500
A single word that is used to express a complete, meaningful thought
What is a Holophrase?
500
Chomsky's term for a hypothesized brain structure that enables humans to learn language
What is the Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
500
Sensorimotor feedback loop/circular reaction involving ACTIVE EXPLORATION and IMPLEMENTATION where infant will vary their responses as a means of learning about the world