Child Development Unit 6 Vocabulary

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Babbling

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When an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering articulate sounds but does not yet produce any recognizable words.

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Cognitive development

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How children think, reason, and figure things out; the development of acquiring intelligence and increasingly advanced thought and problem-solving ability from infancy to adulthood.

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Cooing

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The act of making a gentle low noise.

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Digital tools

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Any interactive website, application, or software that requires an account with a username and password.

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Jean Piaget

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Swiss psychologist who was the first to make a systematic study of the acquisition of understanding in children.

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Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

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A theory that deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it.

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Play

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A complex set of behaviors characterized by fun and spontaneity that can be sensory, neuromuscular, cognitive, or any combination of the three. Play involves repetition of experience, exploration, experimentation, and imitation of one’s surroundings.

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Screen time

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Time spent using a device such as a computer, phone, television, or games console.

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Sensorimotor stage

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The first stage of Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development, beginning at birth and lasting through age 2, where one learns about the world by using their senses to interact with their surroundings.

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Solitary play

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Also known as independent play; one of the earliest stages of play where children play alone because they have not developed socially to be able to play with others yet or because they choose alone time.