Processes involved in interpretation of sensory information to yield a meaningful understanding.
What is perception?
100
Consciously recalled or recollected memory
What is explicit memory?
100
Contrasts between difference individuals at different ages.
What is cross-sectional design?
100
A unit of sound that makes a meaningful difference in a language.
What is a phoneme?
100
Intellectual functioning as proposed through two complimentary processes.
What is adaptation?
200
The ability to allocate mental resources to certain tasks.
What is attention?
200
Memory that is not deliberate or conscious.
What is implicit memory?
200
Contrasts made of performance by the same individual at different ages.
What is a longitudenal comparison?
200
The smallest unit of meaning in a word.
What is a morpheme?
200
The change in mental structures that is elicited by new stimuli or experiences.
What is accommodation?
300
The cognitive processes underlying the storage, retention and retrieval of information.
What is memory?
300
A portion of long-term memory thought to store general knowledge
What is semantic memory?
300
An examination of developmental change within a single set of individuals over relatively brief periods (days or weeks usually).
What is a microgenetic design?
300
The structure of words within a sentence.
What is syntax?
300
The application of an existing mental structure to a new stimulus or experience.
What is assimilation?
400
The organization of information into meaningful, coherent groups?
What is categorization?
400
A portion of memory thought to store memory of specific events.
What is episodic memory?
400
Comparisons made both cross sectionally and longitudenally can be made using this design.
What is cohort sequential design?
400
Knowledge of the communicative functions of language.
What is pragmatics?
400
Criticism of Piagetian theory in terms of the functioning abilities of infants.
What is an underestimation of abilities?
500
The cognitive processes used in drawing inferences from given information to generate conclusions.
What is reasoning?
500
Recognition that something is different without knowing precisely what the difference is.
What is recognition priming?
500
A test of a scientific theory in which the researcher controls and manipulates the independent variables.
What is an experiment?
500
The idea that the environment does not provide enough structure to support empirical learning of language in the amount of time that children typically require.
What is the poverty of the stimulus?
500
Criticism of Piagetian theory in terms of the functioning of adolescents and adults?