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Piaget and Cognitive Development Terms, Quizzes of Developmental Psychology

Definitions for various terms related to piaget's theory of cognitive development, including enuresis, gross and fine motor skills, systems of action, handedness, preoperational stage, symbolic function, pretend play, transduction, animism, centration, decenter, egocentrism, encoding, storage, retrieval, sensory memory, working memory, executive function, long-term memory, recognition, recall, generic memory, script, episodic memory, autobiographical memory, social interaction model, stanford-binet intelligence scales, wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence, zone of proximal development, scaffolding, fast mapping, pragmatics, social speech, and private speech.

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TERM 1
enuresis
DEFINITION 1
repeated urination in clothing or bed
TERM 2
gross motor skills
DEFINITION 2
physical skills that involve large muscles
TERM 3
fine motor skills
DEFINITION 3
physical skills that involve the small muscles and eye-hand
coordination
TERM 4
systems of action
DEFINITION 4
increasingly complex combinations of skills, which permit a
wider or more precise range of movement and more control
of the environment
TERM 5
handedness
DEFINITION 5
preference for using a particular hand
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enuresis

repeated urination in clothing or bed

TERM 2

gross motor skills

DEFINITION 2

physical skills that involve large muscles

TERM 3

fine motor skills

DEFINITION 3

physical skills that involve the small muscles and eye-hand

coordination

TERM 4

systems of action

DEFINITION 4

increasingly complex combinations of skills, which permit a

wider or more precise range of movement and more control

of the environment

TERM 5

handedness

DEFINITION 5

preference for using a particular hand

preoperational stage

piaget's second stage of cognitive development, in which

symbolic thought expands but children cannot yet use logic

TERM 7

symbolic function

DEFINITION 7

Piaget's term for ability to use mental representations to

which a child has attached meaning

TERM 8

pretend play

DEFINITION 8

play involving imaginary people and situations

TERM 9

transduction

DEFINITION 9

Piaget's term for a preoperational child's tendency to

mentally link particular phenomena whether or not there is

logically a causal relationship

TERM 10

animism

DEFINITION 10

tendency to attribute life to objects that are not alive

retrieval

process by which information accessed or recalled from

memory storage

TERM 17

sensory memory

DEFINITION 17

initial, brief, temporary storage of sensory information

TERM 18

working memory

DEFINITION 18

short term storage of information being actively processed

TERM 19

executive function

DEFINITION 19

conscious control of thoughts, emotions, and actions to

accomplish goals or solve problems

TERM 20

central executive

DEFINITION 20

in Baddeley's model, element of working memory that

controls the processing of information

long-term memory

storage of virtually unlimited capacity that holds information

for long periods

TERM 22

recognition

DEFINITION 22

ability to identify a previously encountered stimulus

TERM 23

recall

DEFINITION 23

ability to reproduce material from memory

TERM 24

generic memory

DEFINITION 24

memory that produces scripts or familiar routines to guide

behavior

TERM 25

script

DEFINITION 25

a schema for repeated events

zone of proximal

Vygotsky's term for the difference between what a child can

do alone and what the child can do with help

TERM 32

scaffolding

DEFINITION 32

temporary support to help a child master a task

TERM 33

fast

mapping

DEFINITION 33

process by which a child absorbs the meaning of a new word

hearing it once or twice in conversation

TERM 34

pragmatics

DEFINITION 34

the practical knowledge needed to use language for

communication purposes

TERM 35

social speech

DEFINITION 35

speech intended to be understood by a listener

private speech

talking aloud to oneself with no intent to communicate with

others

TERM 37

emergent literacy

DEFINITION 37

preschoolers development of skills, knowledge, and attitudes

that underlie reading and writing