Chapter 3 Review

_____ is when unused synapses are replaced by other pathways or disappear

• Lateralization

• Pruning

• Neurons

_____ are actions or mental representations that organize knowledge

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Schemes

The first stage of Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory is _____

• sensorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

_____ is memory without conscious recollection

• Implicit memory

• Explicit memory

• Infantile amnesia

______ is the ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words and rules

• Language acquisition device

• Child-directed speech

• Infinite generativity