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Physical Growth & Dev. (Ch 5)
Cognitive Dev. Qualitative (Ch 6)
Cognitive Dev. Quantitative (Ch 7)
Potpourri
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This reflex is present throughout one's life.

What is the Blinking Reflex?

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This is the first of Piaget's four stages of Cognitive Development.
What is the Sensory Motor stage?
100
This is the first part of the three parts of the Atkinson & Shiffrin Model of how we commit things to memory.
What is the Sensory Register (Sensory Memory)
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If you help a child a lot in the beginning but help less as they are learning a task, then you are using this approach.

What is Scaffolding.

200

Rooting, Stepping, or Swimming; this reflex is designed to help infants find nourishment.

What is the Rooting reflex.

200
These problems occurring in the Preoperational Stage often involve Liquid, Number, and Mass.
What are Conservation problems?
200
If little Jimmie cannot remember events from before age 2, then we might say he suffers from this.
What is Infantile Amnesia?
200

The two most noted Cognitive Developmental researchers are Jean Piaget and this man:

What is the Lev Vygotsky

300

This reflex is also known as the Fencer's pose.

What is Tonic Neck Reflex

300
When young Tera gives all inanimate objects human qualities, psychologists would call her behavior an example of this.
What is Animism?
300
This is the amount of information a person has about a particular topic.
What is a Knowledge Base?
300
This is the device psychologists use to determine if infants understand depth perception.
What is a Visual Cliff?
400

Of the five senses, this sense seems to be present before an infant is born.

What is Hearing?

400
If a teenager, often believes that everyone is talking about them, then David Elkind would tell you that they suffer from this.
What is an Imaginary Audience?
400
If Cynthia memorizes items by putting them into a story or picture, then she is using this Memory technique.
What is Elaboration?
400

Infants can typically do this motor milestone without help by 12 months of age.

What is walking without assistance

500

This theory explains why a child may or may not start to learn certain motor milestones.

What is Dynamic Systems theory?

500
After Social speech and Private speech, this third type of speech involves no outward talk of any kind.
What is Internalization
500
If little Andrea is able to recognize the difference between one item and two items, then psychologists say that she is doing this.
What is Subitizing?
500

The two things children must learn so that they can read is learning the letters of the alphabet and this:

What is Phonemic awareness?