Chapter 6 Early Childhood Development

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_______ are actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.

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Schemes

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______ are Piagetian concepts of the incorporation of new information into existing knowledge.

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Assimilation

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__________ is Piagetian concept of adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences.

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Accommodation

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______ is Piaget's concept of grouping isolated behaviors into a higher-order, more smoothly functioning cognitive system; the grouping or arranging of items into categories.

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Organization

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________ stage is the first of Piaget's stages, which lasts from birth to about 2 years of age, when infants construct and understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences (such as seeing and hearing) with motoric actions

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Sensorimotor Stage

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_______ states that infants are born with domain-specific innate knowledge systems, such as those involving space, number sense, object performance, and language.

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Core Knowledge Approach

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__________ is the internalized actions that allow children to do mentally what before they had done only by physically. reversible mental actions

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Operations

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______ is the second stage Piaget's developmental stage, which lasts from about 2 to 7 years of age, when children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings.

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Preoperational Stage

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______ is an important feature of preoperational thought: the inability to distinguish between one's own and someone else's perspective.

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Egocentrism

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_________ is when focusing attention on one characteristics to the exclusion of all others.

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Centration