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Appearance/Reality Distinction
Children concrete in thinking, assume if appearance changes, so do underlying qualities 
Lack of Conservation
Don't understand that quantity is unrelated to arrangement, physical appearance of objects
Decentration
Ability to focus on two aspects of reality or dimensions of a problem simultaneously 
Centration
Focus on a single aspect of reality/problem 
Reversibility
Process of mental undoing or reversing an action
Egocentrism
Tendency to view world solely from one's own perspective
Three mountains task
Shows children assume everyone sees what they see from their perspectives
Theory of mind
Knowledge and beliefs about how the mind works and influences behaviors 
Fast mapping
connecting a new word with its meaning after only a brief encounter
Syntactical bootstrapping
Figure out meaning of words by observing how they're used in structure of sentence
Overregularization
Applying rules of grammar to exceptions where rules don't apply
Autonomy vs Shame and Self-doubt (18-36mo)
Need to exercise will, develop abilities to do things independently or doubt abilities 
Initiative vs Guilt (3-6 yrs)
Need to initiate, carry out tasks successfully or will feel guilty because of their dependence
Self-Concept
A person's identity or set of beliefs about what one is like as an individual
Categorical self
Classifying oneself into social categories
Sex
Biological aspect of being male or female
Gender
behavioral, psychological, and social characteristics of males or females 
Gender Identity
One's awareness of one's gender and implications of gender
Kohlberg's Cognitive Development Theory
Gender role development depends on cognitive development. Children actively socialize themselves. 1) Basic gender identity (2-3 yrs)- Children label their own gender 2) Gender Stability (4yr)- understanding that gender is stable over time 3) Gender Constancy (5-7 yrs)- understanding th…
Gender Typing
Acquisition of info concerning sex-based characteristics that culture sets for males and females 
Gender stereotypes
Overgeneralizations or beliefs about diferences between males and females  Men- instrumental- acting upon the world Women- expressive- having characteristics associated with emotions or relationships 
Gender Segregation
Tendency to play with one's own sex and think of the opposite sex as out group 
Perspectives on Gender- Biological
Biological differences between sexes lead to gender differences
Perspectives on Gender: social learning
Gender roles develop through reinforcement, punishment, and observational learning/imitation 
Direct Tuition
Reinforcing appropriate behaviors, punishing inappropriate behaviors, punishing inappropriate ones 
Perspectives on gender- Gender schema theory
Gender role development occurs as children create gender schemes 
Next form in-group/out-group schema
Label some things as for own gender and some thing as for other gender 
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Perspective
Cognitive development highly influenced by social interaction, culture 
Tools of intellectual adaptation
Methods of thinking, problem solving passed on in a culture because tools, values, beliefs of cultures are different, cognitive development not universal 
Zone of Proximal Development
Gap between what person can accomplish alone vs with assistance of skilled partner
Scaffolding
Carefully tailoring help to level of learner
Egocentric Speech
Young children's speech that is not directed at other people
Private speech
Speech directed to self that guides thoughts and behaviors 
Evidence for Vygotsky
Private speech starts as instructions given by more experienced person
Concrete Operations
7--11 yrs, can perform mental actions on objects, as long as they are not abstract... Understand conservation, decentration, acquire reversibility of thought
Horizontal decalage
Not all skills of each stage are mastered at once
Relational Logic
Logic used to understand relationships between objects Seriation Transitivity
Seriation
Mentally order objects along quantifiable dimension
Transitivity
Understand logic relationship of objects in a series
Major Limitation
Organized, logical thinking only when dealing with concrete, physical world 
Class Size
More effective Teachers spend more time teaching, giving individual attention Students have better concentration, class participation, attitudes towards school
Traditional Education
Teacher is authoritative figure, has all the knowledge, students are evaluated the same way
Constructivist
Students construct own knowledge, students are active learning, guiding own learning
Standardized tests
Individual performance evaluated by comparing score to average score of large number of similar individuals
Achievement Tests
Tests designed to assess specific info learned in school
Effective teachers
Effective teachers typically similar to authoritative parents, Caring relationships important to kids from low SES, at risk of learning difficulties 
Obesity
Body weight 20% above average weight for age, height, 1 out of 8 kids in the US
Causes of Obesity
Genetics: at least one parent is obese. Poor eating habits Not enough exercise
Treatment for Obesity
Usually require family wide changes Usually focuses on improving eating habits Increasing physical activity Limiting TV time
Gross Motor Skill
Improvement in balance, agility, force, reaction time
Intelligence
Capacity to understand the world, think rationally, use resources effectively 
Binet & Simon
Created forerunner to modern IQ tests, assume general intelligence underlies performance on variety of tasks
Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
Componential intelligence Experiential Intelligence Contextual Intelligence
Componential Intelligence
Efficiency of analyzing and processing information 
Experiential Intelligence
Insightful, creative intelligence 
Contextual Intelligence
Practical intelligence needed to meet everyday challenges 
Autobiographical Memory
Memory of a particular event of ones own life, achieves little accuracy until after 3 years old
Scripts
Broad representations in memory of events and the order in which they occur 
Moral Development
Refers to changes in people's sense of justice and of what is right and wrong, and in their behavior related to moral issues 
Heteronomous Morality
Rules are seen as invariant and unchangeable, ages 4-7
Incipient cooperation Stage
Children games become more social, learn actual formal rules of a game, play according to this shared knowledge, ages 7-10
Autonomous Cooperation Stage
Become fully aware of the game rules and that they can be modified if the people who play them agree, ages 10
Encoding
Child intially records the info in a form of usable memory
Stored
Places and maintained in the memory system
Retrieval
Materiel in memory storage is located, brought to awareness, and used
Sensory Memory
Refers to initial, momentary storage of info that lasts only an instant
Short Term Memory
Info is stored for 15-20 secs according to its meaning
Long Term Memory
Info stored relatively permanently, may be difficult to retrieve 
Metamemory
An understanding about the processes that underlie memory, also emerges and improves during middle childhood 
Control Strategies
Conscious, intentionally used tactics to improve cognitive processing

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