EPSY 255 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Object Permanence, Egocentrism, Operant Conditioning
12 Feb 2020
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Processes of development: schemes, assimilation, accommodation, organization. Features of the preoperational (ages 2 to 7 years: preoperational substages, symbolic function substage, egocentrism, animism. Intuitive thought substage: centration, unable to conserve (conservation) Development of make-believe play: child becomes less centered as agent of make-believe (decentration, detached from real life conditions (decontextualization) Features of the concrete operational (7 to 11 years of age: conservation, classification. Vygotsky"s theory: children actively construct their knowledge and understanding: the zone of proximal development (zpd, scaffolding, language and thought, private speech, piaget v. vygotsky. The influence of heredity and environment: hertitability & environment influences, cross- cultural comparison, cultural bias in testing, culture-fair testing. 9 language development: what is language, how language develops. Infancy: babbling, cooing, gestures, recognizing language sounds. First words: receptive vocabulary, spoken vocabulary, overextension, underextenion. Two-word utterances: telegraphic speech, early childhood & language, language and ses, early literacy, early literacy experiences (diverse, emergent writing, middle and late childhood, reading, bilingualism and second-language learning.
