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Module 44 AP Psych
Module 44 AP Psych Unit 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cognition | all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
| Schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
| Assimilation | interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas |
| Accommodation | adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information |
| Sensorimotor stage | in Piaget’s theory, the stage (from birth to nearly 2 years old ) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of sensory impressions and motor activates |
| Object permanence | The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived |
| Pre-operational stage | in Piaget’s theory the stage (from about 2 to 6 or7 years of age) during which a child learns a new language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic |
| Conservation | the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in forms of objects |
| Ego-centrism | in Piaget’s theory the preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s point of view |
| Theory of mind | people's ideas about their own and others’ mental states |
| Concrete operation stage | in Piaget’s theory the stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of age) 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 (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts |
| Scaffold | a framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking |
| Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction and by ridged fixated interests and repetitive behaviors |
| Asperger syndrome | people with this disorder generally function at a high level, they are deficient in social and communication skills and tend to become distracted by irrelevant stimuli |
| Biological factors: Twins studies, genetic mutations | if one is diagnosed with ASD than there is a 50-70% chance that the other will be diagnosed with it as well |
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