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week 4 pt. 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the sensorimotor stage? | First 2 years of life, learning about the world through senses and motor explorations |
| What are circular reactions? | Repetitive acts that help children learn about their bodies and environment |
| Who came up with the sensorimotor stage? | Piaget |
| What is objective permanence? | Things are still there even if not visible, for infants |
| What is the A-Not-B test? | "Tiger" experiment |
| What is violation of expectation? | "Bunny" experiment |
| What is the preoperational stage? | First 2-7 years of life; representational thinking and pretend play |
| What is dual representation in symbolic thinking? | The mini office experiment |
| What are the limitations of the preoperational stage? | Children can only see their perspectives |
| What is receptive language? | Comprehension; the first language that children understand. At 4 months old an infant may turn their head in response to their name, 9-15 months they'll catch on to "Where's daddy?" "Your ball is over there!" |
| What is productive/expressive language? | "Cooing" around 2 months, "mama, dada" around 1 year |
| What is the holophrase? | One-word utterance |
| What is telegraphic speech? | Two-word utterance "cat sleep!" "mama go!" Improves dramatically around 15-36 months |
| What is vocabulary spurt? | Occasional words from 7-15 months, heavily expanded around 16 months |
| What is fast mapping? | Ability to learn new words from a single or very minimal exposure without deliberate instruction or feedback |
| What is syntactic bootstrapping? | Using sentence context to infer a word's meaning |
| What is dual representation? | Something has two meanings, ex. a remote is a phone |
| What is joint attention? | A major leap in social cognition, ex. sharing a toy with a partner, or a mom points out a toy, the child notices, then makes eye contact with the mother (like a triangular motion) |