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| simultaneous multiple attention (definition) |
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| Incoordination and unsteadiness due to the brain's failure to regulate the body's posture and regulate the strength and direction of limb movements. |
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| implicit memory (definition) |
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| an inability to recall details of memory such as when, where, and from whom they learned it |
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| Figure-ground discrimination (definition) |
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| involves the differentiation between foreground and background forms and objects |
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| responding to environmental challenges as they occur |
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| mental schemes (definition) |
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| organizing experiences into concepts |
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| the cognitive methods used by the child to organize schemes and experiences to direct subsequent actions |
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| the balance between what the child knows and can act on and what the environment provides |
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| assimilation (definition) |
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| the ability to take a new situation and change it to match an existing scheme or generalization |
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| accommodation (definition) |
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| the development of a new scheme in response to the reality of a situation or discrimination |
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| primary circular reactions (definition) |
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| child learns about cause and effect as a result of reflexive sensorimotor patterns that are repeated for enjoyment (2 to 4 months according to Piaget) |
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| secondary circular reactions (definition) |
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| voluntary movement patterns emerge due to coordination of vision and hand function, and an early awareness of cause and effect development (5 to 8 months according to Piaget) |
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| coordination of secondary schemata (definition) |
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| voluntary movement in response to stimuli that cannot be seen such as in object permanence, and early development of decentered thought (9 to 12 months accordin |
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| the weakening of the body at a gradual but steady pace during the last stages of adulthood through death |
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| gyral atrophy (definition) |
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| narrowing and flattening of gyri with widening of sulci |
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| congenitally missing extremity |
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