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| piaget's term for cognitive development between the ages of about 2 and 6, before logical, operational thinking becomes possible. |
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| The process of organizing and evaluating thoughts in one's mind come to a logical conclusion. |
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| piaget's term for children's tendency to think about the world entirely from their own personal perspective |
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| a characteristic of peroperational thought in which a person focuses (centers) on one idea, excluding all others. |
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| a characteristic of peroperational thought in which a child ignores all attributes that are not apparent |
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| thinking that nothing changes: whatever is now has always been and will ever be. |
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| the idea that nothing can be undone; the failure to recognize that reversal sometimes restores something back to what existed before a change occured |
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| the idea that the amount of a substance remains the same when it appearance changes. |
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| a person whose cognition is stimulated and difrected by older more skilled members of society |
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| the process by which people learn from others who guide their experiences and explorations. |
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| zone of proximal development |
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| vygotsky's term for the skills that a person can exercise with assistance but not yet independently. applies to the ideas or cognitive skills a person is clsoe to mastering as well as to more apparent skills. |
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| temporary support provided to help a learner master the next task in a given learning process. |
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| the internal dialogue that occures when people talk to themselves |
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| a function a speech by which a person's cognitve skills are refined and extended through both formal instruction and casual conversation |
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| the idea that children attempt to explain everything they see and hear by constructing theories |
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| a time when a certain development must happen if it is ever to happen |
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| a time when a certain type of developemt is most likely to happen when it happens most easily. |
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| the speedy and imprecise way in which children learn new words by mentally charting them into categories according to their meaning |
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| applying grammar rules even when exceptions occur, making the language more "regular" than it actually is |
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| a person who is ewually fluent in two languages, not favoring one or the other. |
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| the early skills that help children learn to read, such as letter recognition and page sequencing |
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