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Jarvis PE&HA ch 2
Jarvis PE&HA chapter 2 (usi 247)
Question | Answer |
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centration | the characteristic of focusing on only 1 aspect of a situation at a time & ignoring other characteristics |
cooperative play | children playing the same game & interacting while doing it |
delayed imitation | a child can witness an event, form a mental representation of it, & imitate it later in the absence of the model |
egocentric | the characteristic of focusing on one's own interests, needs, & point of view & lacking concern for other |
mental representation | Piaget's term for the concept acquired by age 2 that an infant can think of an external event without actually experiencing it |
objective permanence | Piaget's term for the concept acquired during infancy that objects & people continue to exist even when they are no longer in sight |
prehension | using the hand and fingers for the act of grasping |
stress | the total of the biologic reactions to an adverse stimulus--whether it be physical, mental, or emotional, internal or external--that tends to disturb the homeostasis of the body |
symbolic function | Piaget's term for the concept acquired during childhood in which the child uses symbols to represent people, objects & events |
telegraphic speech | speech used by age 3 or 4 in which 3 or 4 word sentences contain only the essential words |
transductive reasoning | the young child's thinking that when two events occur simultaneously, that one caused the other, even though they are unrelated |