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| Refers to the biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience or other environmental factors |
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| Refers to all the mental processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating. |
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| In Piaget's theory of cognitive development, schemas are mental concepts or frameworks that organize and interpret information |
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| In Piaget's theory, assimilation, refers to interpreting a new experience in terms of an existing schema |
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| In Piaget's theory, accommodation, refers to changing an existing schema to incorporate new information that cannot be assimilated |
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| In Piaget's theory of cognitive stages, the sensorimotor stage lasts from birth to about age 2. During this stage, infants gain knowledge of the world through their senses and their motor activities |
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| which develops during the sensorimotor stage, is the awareness that things do not cease to exist when not perceived |
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| In Piaget's theory, the preoperational stage lasts from about 2 to 6 or 7 yrs of age. During this stage, language development is rapid, but the child is unable to understand the mental operations of concrete logic |
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| Conservation is the principle that properties such as number, volume, and mass remain constant despite changes in the forms of objects; it is acquired during the concrete operational stage |
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| In Piaget's theory, egocentrism refers to the difficulty that preoperational children have in considering another's viewpoint. Ego means "self" and centrism indicates "in the center"; the preoperational child is "self-centered". |
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| Our ideas about our own and others' thoughts, feelings, and perceptions and the behaviors these might predict constitute our theory of mind |
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| Concrete operational stage |
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| During the concrete operational stage, lasting from about ages 6 to 11, children can think logically about concrete events and objects |
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In Piaget's theory, the formal operational stage normally begins about age 12. During this stage people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
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| Is a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind |
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| Is the fear of strangers that infants begin to display by about 8 months of age |
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| Is an emotional tie with another person, shown in young children by their seeking closeness to a caregiver and showing distress on separation. |
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Is a limited time short after birth
during which an organism must be exposed
to certain stimuli or experiences if it is
to develop properly |
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Is the process by which certain animals
form attachments during a limited
critical period early in the life. |
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According to Erikson, basic trust is a
sense that the world is predicatable and
trustworthy-a concept that infants forms if their needs are met by responsive caregiving |
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