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Childrens Development
Cognitive dev, Motor dev, Learning, and Language dev
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
11/04/2009

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Constructivist
Definition
Children construct knowledge for themselves in response to their experiences
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Adaptation
Definition
Tendency to respond to the demands of the environment in order to meet one's goals
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Organization
Definition
tendency to integrate observations into coherent knowledge
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Assimilation
Definition
process where kids take new information and fit it into what they already understnad
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Accommodation
Definition
Process by which people reorganize what they know because of new information
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Equilibration
Definition
Process by which people balance what they know with their new experiences- uses assimilation and accommodation
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Sensorimotor stage
Definition
Birth- 2 years; infants see in here and now; no object concept; intelligence shown through sensory and motor abilities
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