The process of integration of information into meaningful whole; the keystone of Piaget's theory.
What is equilibration?
100
Major information processing theorist who proposed that encoding, automaticity and strategy construction create change.
Who is Siegler?
100
At what age do babies stop being (linguistically speaking) citizens of the world?
6 months.
100
An individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of emotional response.
What is temperament?
100
Attachment theorists find that if caregiver is unavailable or rejecting, a baby is likely to be:
What is avoidant?
200
Piaget's stage that involves verbal problem solving, abstract, idealistic thought and metacognition.
What is formal operational?
200
Does the information processing approach consider development to be continuous or discontinuous?
Continuous
200
These theorists emphasize both biology and experience as contributors to language development.
Who are interactionists?
200
These researchers argue that extraversion/surgency, negative affectivity and effortful control/self regulation characterize the structure of temperament.
Who are Rothbart and Bates?
200
Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus
What is habituation?
300
The upper and lower limits of a person's capability (with and without help.
What is zone of proximal development (ZDP)?
300
According to this theory, people mold memories to fit information that already exists in their mind.
What is schema theory?
300
This approach to language focuses on teaching basic rules for translating written symbols into sounds.
What is the phonics approach?
300
The match between a child's temperament and then environmental demands the child must cope with.
What is goodness of fit?
300
The reaction that occurs when information contacts the sensory receptors
Sensation
400
A theory of cognitive development that focuses on the social and cultural basis of thought.
What is Vygotsky's theory?
400
This model states that adolescents' decision making is influenced by 2 competing systems: one analytical and the other experiential.
What is the dual-process model?
400
Proposed by Chomsky, this biological endowment allows child to detect features and rules of language.
What is the language acquisition device?
400
This researcher focuses on the broad category of infant 'inhibition to the unfamiliar,' and had found that inhibition is quite stable from infancy to early childhood.
Who is Kagan?
400
Adjusting existing schemes to take in new information and experiences
What is accommodation?
500
This is used when a child combines information into manageable pieces.
What is organization?
500
This type of memory has no definable limits, and its information is stored in units.
What is long-term memory?
500
These theorists consider language to be a complex, learned skill.
Who are behaviorists?
500
A close emotional bond between two people.
What is attachment?
500
Memory without consciousness (automatic, e.g. remembering how to ride a bike)