Ch 6: Language Development
Children's first form of communication
Crying
The theorists that believe children are born with a biological module that helps them learn about their environment quickly
Nativists
The theory with 8 types of intelligence
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
When baby geese hatched, they first saw Konrad Lorenz and would follow him around, this demonstrates what?
Imprinting
An infant who rocks themself to sleep or sucks their thumb is demonstrating...?
self-comforting behaviors
The use of short 2-word sentences without grammatical markers
Telegraphic speech
Understanding that people have different intentions, desires, beliefs, and perceptions than your own
Theory of Mind
The increase in IQ scores overtime is called?
The flynn effect
The 5th stage of Erikson's theory of psychosocial development
Identity vs role cofusion
the most common anxiety disorder in children
Separation anxiety
Understanding the meaning of words and sentences
Semantics
Understanding that all sets of N objects have something in common
Numerical equality
The theory that views intelligence as three types of abilities (Analytic, partial, creative)
Sternberg's Theory of Successful Intelligence
Microsystem
Embarrassment, shame, and jealousy are considered to be?
self-conscious emotions
Jean Berko's Wugs study showed that children understood how to us...?
Morphology
miniature dramas children enact
sociodramatic play
MA/CA x 100 =
IQ
When behaviors are sometimes rewarded and sometimes punished, this is called?
Intermittent reinforcement
Various causes can lead to the same mental disorder
Equifinality
Understanding that a symbolic artifact represents a real object and a symbol for something else
Dual representation
The task used to assess children's theory of mind
False-belief problems
By what age are children's writing becoming recognizable as letters
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When children saw adults hitting a Bobo doll they were more likely to also hit the doll, which theory is this study based on?
Bandura's social learning theory
An infant who sleeps throughout the night, does not get easily startled by loud noises, and is curious of new people would most likely have which temperament?
Easy temperament