Piaget's Theory
The process by which people incorporate incoming information into concepts they already understand.
What is assimilation?
This group of theories assumes that children are like computational systems.
What are information-processing theories?
These are systems for representing thoughts, feelings, knowledge, and communicating with others.
What are symbols?
Using the finite set of words to put together an infinite number of novel sentences.
What is generativity?
This is when new information leads children to perceive that their understanding is inadequate.
The process of attaining a goal by using a strategy to overcome an obstacle.
What is problem solving?
This is an absolute requirement for learning and producing language.
What is human brain?
This is the age when infants readily learn to recognize new words and remember them for weeks.
What is 7 to 8 months of age?
The knowledge that objects continue to exist even when they are out of view.
What is object permanence?
A process in which more knowledgeable individuals organize activities in ways that allow less knowledgeable people to learn.
What is guided participation?
The distinctive mode of speech that is warm and affectionate in tone, high-pitched, slower, and includes exaggerated intonation.
infant-directed speech
This is the age when babies start to babble.
What is 7 months of age?
The tendency to reach for a hidden object where it was last found, rather than in the new location where it was last hidden.
What is A-not-B error?
This is an assumption of core-knowledge theories that many aspects of cognition are specific to particular content areas.
What is domain specificity?
This is the length of time between when air passes through the lips and when the vocal cords start vibrating.
What is voice-onset time?
These are the aspects of the social context used for word learning.
What are pragmatic cues?
The tendency of young children to perceive the world solely from one's own point of view
What is egocentrism?
According to core-knowledge theorists, very early in life infants have primitive theories of these 4 categories.
Physics, numbers, biology, psychology.
This hypothesis posits that sometime between age 5 and puberty, language acquisition becomes much more difficult.
What is the critical period hypothesis?