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Human Devel vocab
Human Development vocab CSET
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accomodation | the process by which a child incorporates new experience into previous understandings, and modifies those existing concepts to include the new information. |
| Assimilation | the process by which a child interprets a new experience in terms of their previous understandings |
| Attachment theory | states that a child has formed secure attachments to others is confident in exploring her physical environment, forms friendships easily, and possesses a sense of competency; the opposite is true of a child without secure attachments to others. |
| autonomy | acceptance of responsibility of one's behavior. |
| concrete operational stage | a stage of cognitive development during which a child acquires reasoning skills and is able to differentiate between her viewpoints and others'. |
| Conventional level | a level of moral development during which a child focuses on what one is supposed to do and begins to understand social order. |
| formal operational stage | a stage of cognitive development during which a child enters into the world of abstract thought. |
| learning disabilities | treatable conditions suffered by many students |
| meta-cognition | thinking about thinking |
| multiple intelligences | one of eight distinct types of intelligence developed by Howard Gardner. |
| object permanence | the concept that a seen object still exists after being hidden from sight. |
| pre-conventional level | a level of moral development during which a child is trapped in an egocentric perspective, but is also mastering language skills |
| self concept | how a child thinks about himself |
| self esteem | A child's feelings about himself |
| sensori-motor stage | a stage of cognitive development during which a child learns to differentiate between herself and the external world. |
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