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Module 44
UNIT 6 Infancy and Childhood: Cognitive Development
Term | Definition |
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Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. |
Schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. |
Assimilation | interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. |
Accommodation | adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information. |
Sensorimotor Stage | in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to nearly 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities. |
Object Permanence | the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived. |
Preoperational Stage | in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic. |
Conservation | the principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects. |
Egocentrism | in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view. |
Theory of Mind | People's ideas about their own and others' mental states--about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict. |
Concrete Operational Stage | in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. |
Formal Operational Stage | in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts. |
Scaffold | a framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking. |
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors. |