Human Growth Ch 5

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Assimilation

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The process in which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking

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Accommodation

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Changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events

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Acquisitive stage

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According to Schale, the first stage of cognitive development, encompassing all of childhood and adolescence, in which the main developmental task is to acquire information

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Achieving stage

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The point reached by young adults in which intelligence is applied to specific situations involving the attainment of long-term goals regarding careers, family, and societal contributions.

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Centration

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The process of concentrating on one limited aspect of a stimulus and ignoring other aspects.

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Conservation

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The knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearance of objects

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Deferred imitation

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An act in which a person who is no longer present is imitated by children who have witnessed a similar act

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Egocentric thought

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Thinking that does not take into account the viewpoints of others

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Goal directed behavior

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Behavior in which several schemes are combined and coordinated to generate a single act to solve a problem

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Intuitive thought

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Thinking that reflects preschoolers use of primitive reasoning and their avid acquisition of knowledge about the world

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Mental representation

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An internal image of a past event or object

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Object permanence

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The realization that people and objects exist even when they cannot be seen

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Operations

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Organized, formal, logical mental processes

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Preoperational stage

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According to Piaget, the stage from approximately age 2 to age 7 in which childrens use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases

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Postformal thought

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Thinking that acknowledges that adult predicaments must sometimes be solved in relativistic terms.

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Scheme

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An organized pattern of sensorimotor functioning

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Sensorimotor stage (of cognitive development)

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Piaget's initial major stage of cognitive development, which can be broken down into six substages

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Symbolic function

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The ability to use a mental symbol, a word, or an object to stand for or represent something that is not physically present

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Scaffolding

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The support for learning and problem solving that encourages independence and growth

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Transformation

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The process in which one state is changed into another

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Zone of proximal development (ZPD)

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According to Vygotsky, the level at which a child can almost, but not fully, perform a task independently, but can do so with the assistance of someone more competent