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Vocab Myers 7e
Module 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| schema | concept that organizes and interprets information. |
| assimilation | interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas |
| accommodation | adapting ones's current understnatings to incorporate new information |
| sensorimotor stage | in piaget's theory the stage from birth to 2 years, during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities |
| object permanence | the awareness that things contine to exist even when not perceived. |
| preoperational stage | in piaget's theory the stage from 2 to 6 years old, during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend. |
| conservation | principle which piaget believed to be part of concrete operational reasoning, that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects. |
| egocentrism | in piaget's theory, the inabilitiy of the preoperational child to take another's point of view |
| theory of mind | perople's ideas about their own and others' mental states, about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and teh behavior these might predict |
| autism | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understnading of others' states of mind. |
| concrete operational stage | in piaget's theory, the stage of congnitive development form 7 to 11 years during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. |
| formal operational stage | in piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development, beginning about age 12, during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts. |
| stranger anxiety | the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 month of age |
| attachment | an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation. |
| critical period | an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produce proper development. |
| imprinting | the process by which certain animals form atachments during a critical period very early in life. |
| basic trust | according to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predicatable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers. |
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