chapter 9 infant intellectual

Infant speech using the tongue and the front of the mouth to make a consonant-vowel sound such as ba.

• Babbling

• Mumbling

• Mouthing

• Stuttering

Light, happy, vowel-like sound babies use to communicate between six and eight weeks after birth.

• Babble

• Coo

• Cry

• Laugh

Ability to understand that objects remain the same even if they appear different.

• Object constancy

• Object concept

• Object identity

• Object permanence

Ability to understand that people, objects, and places still exist even when they are no longer seen, felt, or heard.

• Object concept

• Object constancy

• Object identity

• Object permanence

Infant-directed, sing-song, high-pitched style in which parents and other adults speak to babies.

• Parentese

• Baby talk

• Cooing

• Babbling

Using the senses to learn about the environment.

• Sensitive periods

• Sensorimotor stage

• Sensory stimulation

• Seriation

"knowing how" or unconscious memory

• explicit memory

• implicit memory

• memory center

"knowing what", or conscious memory

• implicit memory

• explicit memory

• memory center

what is not involved in perceptual learning?

• cognition

• organizing information

• how fast a person organizes information

• the way a person reacts to different sensory experiences

What is the first stage of cognitive-developmental theory?

• secondary circular reactions

• primary circular reactions

• sensorimotor

• practicing reflexes