Piaget
Proposed the most influential single theory of cognitive development
Piaget
_____ is common among 2-6 year olds imitating adult actions that are irrelevant and inefficient
What is Overimitation?
A perspective that compares human thinking processes to computer analysis of data.
Information-processing theory
Cooing
The earliest postnatal step in language.
the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood
What is cognitive development?
At what age does Piaget's preoperational stage occur?
2 to 7 years
Vygotsky's term for the area that involves all skills, knowledge, and concepts that the person is close to acquiring but cannot yet master without help
What is the zone of proximal development (ZPD)?
What is rehearsal?
A memory strategy in which a person either mentally, or aloud, recites information over and over again
The amount of words (on average) that a child knows by age 2.
500 words
The realization that objects still exist when they can no longer be seen, touched, or heard
What is object permanence?
Four stages of cognitive development
What are Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Operational, and Concrete?
Competent assistance or support, usually provided by a parent or teacher
What is scaffolding?
The component of the information-processing system in which virtually limitless amounts of information can be stored indefinitely is long term memory. TRUE/FALSE
TRUE
Internal dialogue that occurs when people talk to themselves
What is private speech?
It is between these ages that children become better liars
What are ages 3 to 12?
Recognizing that even when the physical appearance of something changes, its quantity stays the same.
Conservation
Believed that development occurred from the outside, inward.
Who is Vygotsky?
The component of the information-processing system in which incoming stimulus information is stored for a split second to allow it to be processed
Sensory memory
The practical use of language that includes the ability to adjust language communication according to audience and context
What is pragmatics?
tendency for children to think about the world entirely from their own experience
What is egocentrism?
What is assimilation and accommodation?
The child attempts to fit new information into schemas he or she has already formed. The child creates new schemas to organize information that he or she can not put into an existing schema.
The theory that says that children watch the interactions between the people in their world, interact with others themselves, and use these interactions to further their own development.
What is Sociocultural theory?
Mechanisms that combine memory, processing speed, and knowledge to regulate the analysis and flow of information within the information processing system
What are control processes?
When children use a new word to to describe other objects in the same category. (ex. Dalmation cow)
What is logical extension?