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| piaget's term for the first two years of life, when awareness of the world is limited to what can be known through sensory awareness and motor acts |
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| in piaget's theory, the process by which children change in order to fuction more effectively in their environment |
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| in piaget's theory, the process of applying an existing capability without modification to various situations |
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| in piaget's theory, the process of modifiying and existing strategy or skill to meet a new demand of the environment |
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| in piaget's theory, cognitive structures that can be applied to a variety of situations |
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| in piaget's theory, a self regulatory process that produces increasingly effective adaptations |
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| a behavior that produces an interesting event, initially by chance, and is repeated |
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| primary circular reaction |
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| a circular reaction involving an infant's own body |
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| secondary circular reaction |
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| a circular reaction involving the effects of an infant's behavior on an external object |
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| a goal-directed chain of behaviors |
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| tertiary circular reaction |
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| a circular reaction involving purposeful, trial-and-error experimentation with a variety of objects |
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| imitation of observed behavior after time has elapsed, indicating an infant's ability to store a representation of the behavior in memory |
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| symbolic or representational thought |
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| in piaget's theory, the ability to make one thing stand for another |
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| piaget's term for inconsistencies in a child's cognitive development across different domains |
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| a contemporary developmental theorist who believes infants have a wide range of innate abilities and knowledge |
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| the information-processing capacity available at any one time |
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| the understanding that objects continue to exist when they are out of sight |
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| a type of memory in which a particular stimulus is perceived as familiar |
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| active retrieval of information from memory |
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| a type of memory in which a familiar stimulus triggers recall of stored information |
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| explicit or declarative memory |
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| memory that is conscious, involves mental representation of images or ideas, and can be explicitly stated or declared |
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| implicity or prcedural memory |
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| memory that unconscious involves memory for procedures or skills, and does not lend itself to explicity statement |
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| adults' inability to recall events from infancy |
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| enduring memory of one's own past |
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