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Behaviorist approach

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Study of cognitive development that is concerned with basic mechanics of learning

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Psychometric approach

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Study of cognitive development that seeks to measure intelligence quantitatively

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Piagetian approach

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Study of cognitive development that describes qualitative stages in cognitive functioning

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Information-processing approach

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Approach to the study of cognitive development that analyzes processes involved in perceiving and handling information

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Cognitive neuroscience approach

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Study of cognitive development that links brain processes with cognitive ones

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Social-contextual approach

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Study of cognitive development that focuses on environmental influences, particularly parents and other caregivers

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Classical conditioning

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Person learns to make a reflex, or voluntary, response (blinking) to a stimulus (camera) that originally did not bring on the response

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Operant conditioning

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Focuses on the consequences of behaviors and how they affect the likelihood of that behavior occurring again

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Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development

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Standardized test of infants’ and toddlers’ mental and motor development - 1 month to 3.5 years
Tests: Cognitive
Language
Motor
Social-emotional
Adaptive behavior
Separate scores (developmental quotients) calculated for each scale - most commonly used for detection of emotional disturbances and sensory, neurological and environmental deficits

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Early intervention

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Systematic process of providing services to help families meet young children’s developmental needs
Early educational intervention can help offset environmental risks and provide significant benefits even if the striking early gains that are often seen do not persist

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Most effective early interventions:

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Start early and continue throughout the preschool years
Highly time-intensive (occupy more hours in a day or more days in a week, month, or year)
Center-based, providing direct educational experiences, not just parental training
Take a comprehensive approach, including health, family counseling, and social services
Tailored to individual differences and needs

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Object permanence

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John Piaget’s term for the understanding that a person/object is still there even if it is out of sight
Develops gradually during sensor motor stage

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Object permanence at 4-8 months

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They will look for something they have dropped, but if they cannot see it, it no longer exists

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Object permanence at 8-12 months

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They will look for an object in a place where they first found it after seeing it hidden, even if they later saw it being moved to another place (A-not-B error)

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Object permanence at 12-18 months

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They will search for an object in the last place they saw it hidden, however they will not search for it in a place where they did not see it hidden

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Object permanence at 18-24 months

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Object permanence is fully achieved, toddlers will look for an object even if they did not see it hidden

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Habituation

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Type of learning in which familiarity with a stimulus reduces, slows, or stops a response - familiarity breeds loss of interest
Researchers study habituation by repeatedly presenting a stimulus and then monitoring responses - gauge efficiency of infants’ information process by measuring how quickly babies habituate to familiar stimuli

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Dishabituation

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Increase in responsiveness after presentation of a new stimulus
Liking to look at new things and habituating to them quickly correlates with later signs of cognitive development

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Visual preference

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Tendency of infants to spend more time looking at one sight than another
Babies 2 days old prefer curved lines vs straight lines

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Visual recognition memory

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Ability to distinguish a familiar visual stimulus from an unfamiliar one when shown both at the same time
Babies stare at novel stimulus (new) longer than familiar stimulus because it is exciting
When shown two sights at the same time, infants who quickly shift attention have better recognition memory and stronger novelty preference

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Speed of processing increases rapidly during infants ______ year

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1st
Continues during 2nd and 3rd years, toddlers become able to distinguish new information from information they have already processed

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Cross-modal transfer

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Ability to use information gained by one sense to guide another
(ex: when a person negotiates a dark room by feeling for the location of familiar objects)

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Joint attention

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Fundamental importance to social interaction, language acquisition, and the understanding of others’ intentions and mental states - develops between 10 and 12 months, when babies follow adults gaze by looking or pointing in the same direction

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Innate learning mechanisms

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Violation of expectations theory that infants are born with reasoning abilities that help them make sense of the information they encounter - or they acquire these abilities very early

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Core knowledge

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Violation of expectations theory that at birth infants may already have intuitive knowledge of basic physical principles in the form of specialized brain modules that help infants organize their perceptions and experience

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Sound discrimination

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Infants’ brains seem to be preset to discriminate basic linguistic sounds, perceive linguistic patterns, and categorize them to same or different beginning in the womb

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By _____ months, hearing babies have learned to recognize approximately 40 phonemes, or basic sounds, of their native language and adjust to slight differences in the way different speakers form those sounds

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6-7 months

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Between ____ months, babies begin to become aware of the phonological rules of their language

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6-12 months
“kib” acceptable as sound combination
“bnik” breaks phonological rules

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The average baby says a first word sometime between ______ months

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10 and 14 months

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Linguistic speech

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Verbal expression designed to convey meaning

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Holophrase

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Single word that conveys a complete thought

“Da” may mean “i want that” or “i want to go out” or “where’s daddy”

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Receptive vocabulary

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What infants understand-continues to grow as verbal comprehension gradually becomes faster and more accurate and efficient

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Expressive vocabulary

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Spoken vocabulary - slow at first, most infants understand 150 words but only know 50 of them
16 and 24 months - “naming explosion” - go from saying 50 words to several hundred
Rapid increases in spoken vocabulary reflect increases in speed and accuracy of word recognition

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True or False

Nouns seem to be the easiest type of word to learn

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True

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Children can put together a sentence at what age?

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18 - 24 months
Age ranges
Most children who begin talking late catch up eventually

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True or False

A children’s first sentences usually deal with every day events, things, people or activities

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True

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Telegraphic speech

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Early form of sentence use consisting of only a few essential words
ex: “Damma deep” may mean “grandma is sweeping the floor.”

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Syntax

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Rules for forming sentences in a particular language
Develops between 20 and 30 months
Become more aware of the communicative purpose of speech and of whether their words are being understood
By age 3, speech is fluent, longer, and more complex