exam 2 ch.5
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- language acquisition device LAD
- In Chomsky's terminoloty, an inborn mechanism that enables children to infer linguistics rules from the language that hear
- representational ability
- Piaget's term for capacity to store mental images or symbols of objects and events.
- operant conditioning
- (1) learning based on association of behavior with its consequences (2) learning based on reinforcement or punishment
- overextension
- Children in their 2ed and 3rd years sometimword "daddy" may be used in reference to all men. This occurs simply because, although the infant detects the differences among various types of animals, he has only one word ("dog").; "doggie," for instance, may refer to a variety of four-legged animals as well as to dogs, and the
- guided participation
- Participation of an adult in a child's activity in a manner that helps to structure the activity and to bring the child's understanding of it closer to that of the adult
- Classical conditioning
- Learning based on association of stimulus that does not ordinarily elicit a particular response with another stimulus that does elicit the response.
- Object permanence
- Piaget's term for the understanding that a person of object still exists when out of sight
- literacy
- (1) Ability to read and write (2) in an adult, ability to use printed written information to function in society achieve foals, and develop knowledge and potential
- deferred imitation
- Piaget's term for reproduction of an observed behavior after the passage of time by calling up a stored symbol of it
- over regularization
- a language-learning process in which the regular ways of modifying or connecting words are mistakenly applied to words that require irregular modifications or connections.
- syntax
- Rules for forming sentences in a particular language.
- early intervention
- Systematic process of providing services to help families meet young children's developmental needs
- working memory
- short term storage of information being actively processed.
- under extension
- a word is referring to a very specific instance of a certain concept other than all types and examples of the concept.
- prelinguistic speech
- Forerunner of linguistic speech; utterance of sounds that are not words. Includes crying cooing babbling, and accidental and deliberate imitation of sounds w/o understanding their meaning
- violation of expectations
- Research method in which dishabituation to a stimulus that conflicts with experience is taken as evidence that an infant recognizes the new stimulus as surprising
- Child-directed speech CDS
- Form of speech often used in talking to babies or toddlers; includes slow, simplified speech, a high-pitched tone, exaggerated vowel sounds, short works and sentences, and much repetition: also called parentese.
- schemes
- Piaget's term for organized patterns of behavior used in particular situations.
- nativism
- Theory that human beings have an inborn capacity for language acquisition
- language
- Communication system based on works and grammar
- cross-modal transfer
- Ability to use information gained by one sense to guide another
- telegraphic speech
- Early form of sentence use consisting of only a few essential words
- holophrase
- Single word that conveys a complete thought
- IQ
- psychometric test that seek to measure intelligence by comparing a test taker's performance with standardize norms.