Cognitive Development
According to Piaget, this is a concept or mental representation that guides the way a person makes sense of new information.
What is a schema?
In the preschool years, children start to develop better skill at remembering things that they need to do in the future. This type of memory is called...
What is prospective memory?
A variety of language that is distinguished by its vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation.
What is dialect?
This is the name of Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence.
What is triarchic theory of intelligence?
This is a setting that is as similar as possible to the one in which children without a disability are educated?
What is a least restrictive environment (LRE)?
These are the four stages of Piaget’s cognitive development model...
What are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational?
This type of memory happens without conscious recollection--memory of skills and routine procedures that are performed automatically.
What is implicit memory?
A teaching approach built on the idea that reading instruction should parallel children's natural language learning and that reading materials should be whole and meaningful.
What is the whole-language approach?
This type of thinking produces many answers to the same question and is characteristic of creativity.
What is divergent thinking?
Chromsky's term that describes a biological endowment that enables a child to detect certain features and rules of language, including phonology, syntax, and semantics.
What is language acquisition device (LAD)?
This refers to a young child’s inability to experience anyone else’s point of view.
What is egocentric thinking?
This type of attention is given by individuals who focus on the same object or event; it requires an ability to track another's behavior, one individual to direct another's attention, and reciprocal interaction.
What is joint attention?
An area of the brain's left hemisphere that is involved in language comprehension.
What is the Wernicke's area?
This is a condition of limited mental ability in which an individual has a low IQ, usually below 70 on a traditional intelligence test, and has difficulty adapting to the demands of everyday life.
What is an intellectual disability?
This describes the tendency for older adults to have an increased recollection of events that happened during adolescence and early adulthood.
What is a reminisce bump?
During the preschool age, kids begin to understand that other people have their own thoughts and emotions. Piaget called this cognitive skill...
What is theory of mind?
This type of memory entails retention of information for up to 15 to 30 seconds, without rehearsal of the information. Using rehearsal, individuals can keep the information longer.
What is short-term memory?
This type of language entails the use of short, precise words without grammatical markers such as articles, auxiliary verbs, and other connectives.
What is telegraphic speech?
This occurs when an individual experiences anxiety regarding whether their behavior might confirm a negative stereotype about one's group.
What is stereotype threat?
This is a process that helps to explain how young children learn the connection between a word and its referent so quickly.
What is fast mapping?
This occurs when an existing schema can be used to interpret new information.
What is assimilation?
This type of cognitive processing involves planning actions, allocating attention to goals, detecting and compensating for errors, monitoring progress on tasks, and dealing with novel or difficult circumstances.
What is executive attention?
Units of meaning involved in word formation.
What are morphemes?
This type of intelligence requires the ability to reason effectively without any previous experience or knowledge.
What is fluid intelligence?
This term describes when infants make the mistake of selecting the familiar hiding place (A) of an object rather than its new hiding place (B) as they progress into substage 4 of Piaget's sensorimotor stage.
What is A-not-B error?