Health and assessment 2
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- Centration
- the characteristic of focusin on only one aspect of a sistuation at a tiem and ignoring other characteristics
- Cooperative play
- children playin the same game and interating while doing it
- Delayed imitation
- a child can witness an event form amental representation of it and imitate it later in the absence of the model
- Egocentric
- the characteristic of focussing on one's own interests needs and point of view and lacking concern for others
- mental representation
- piaget's term for the concept acquired by age 2 that an infant can think of an external event with out actually experiencing it.
- Object permanence
- Piagets term for concept acquired during infancy that objects and people continue to exist even when thaey are no longer in sight
- Prehension
- using the hand and fingers for the act of grasping
- Stress
- the total of the biologic reactions to an adverse stimulaus whether it be physical mental or emortiona internal or external that tends to disturb the homeostasis of the boyd
- Symbolic funtion
- Piaget's term for the concept acquired during childhood in which the child uses symbols to represnet people objects and events
- telegraphic speech
- speech used by age 3 or 4 in whch three or four word sentences contain only the essential words.
- Transductive reasoning
- the young child thing that when two events occur simultaneously that one caused the other even though they are unrelated