Vowel sounds strung together that are elicited by 2-5 months olds is called...
What is cooing.
100
This type of theory examined sensory, short term, and long term memory.
What is the information processing theory.
100
The _______ approach states that perceptual abilities are inborn.
What is nativist.
200
This process occurs when neuronal connections grow extensively.
What is synaptogenesis
200
This person developed intelligence tests for preschoolers, school-age children, and adults. They have been widely used.
What is the person named Weschler.
200
This theorist believed that we are born with a language acquisition device for understanding language.
What is the psychologist named Chomsky.
200
Piaget used _______ tasks to test whether children understand that the properties of objects remain the same even under various changes.
What is conservation.
200
A type of apparatus that has a checkerboard pattern with a "shallow" side and "deep" side to test depth perception is known as the _______ ________.
What is visual cliff.
300
Un-used synaptic connections go away providing for more efficient processing.
What is pruning.
300
Gardner developed a theory of intelligence titled _______.
What is Multiple Intelligences.
300
When children produce one word utterances with intonation and/or gestures, this is called using _______.
What is holophrases.
300
In _______ ________, individuals are able to think abstractly.
What is formal operations.
300
Understanding that shades of color are the same, even in different levels of light, is referred to as ______ ________.
What is color constancy.
400
When other parts of the brain take over for damaged areas, this is called brain _________.
What is plasticity.
400
Asian parents and teachers emphasize ________ rather than innate ability for children's achievement.
What is effort.
400
A _______ is the basic sounds of a language.
What is a phoneme.
400
The gap between what children know on their own and what they understand through social interactions is known as the ________ __________ _________ _________.
What is zone of proximal development.
400
________ developed the preference technique for studying perceptual development.
What is the psychologist named Fantz.
500
The part of the neuron that send information away from the cell body is called the _______.
What is the axon.
500
The type of intelligence whereby a child is very good at reading social cues and solving real-world problems.
What is practical intelligence.
500
In this type of speech, children talk in small phrases that contain only the essence of what they want to say.
What is telegraphic speech.
500
Testing out information systematically, such as the way scientists test out hypotheses, is referred to as _________ ________ _____________.
What is hypothetico-deductive reasoning.
500
Children will look to their parents to see how they respond in situations that are unclear or ambiguous. This is called ______ _________.