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Early Childhood
Early Childhood and Language Development
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
05/01/2014

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Induction
Definition
parent/adult helps child notice feelings by pointing out effect of child's misbehaviour on others
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Proactive Aggression
Definition
Children act to fulfill a need or desire
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Reactive Aggression
Definition
Angry, defensive response to provacation or a blocked goal, meant to hurt another person
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Moral Imperitives
Definition
Things which protect people's rights and welfare
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Telegraphic speech
Definition
2-word sentences
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Expressive Style
Definition
Toddlers produce many more social formulas and pronouns
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Referential Style
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Statistical Learning Capacity
Definition
Infants analyze the speech stream for patterns (repeatdly occuring sequences of sounds) they acquire a stock of speech structures for which they will later learn meanings, long before they start to talk around 12mo
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Overextension
Definition
Applying a word to a wider collection of objects and events than is appropriate
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Underextension
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When toddlers apply words too narrowly
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Expansion
Definition
Elaborating on children's speech, increasing in its complexity
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Semantics
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Vocabulary
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Phonology
Definition
Sounds structure of language
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Morphology
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the identification, analysis, and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units
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Behaviorist Theory of Language
Definition
  • The environment rewards you for speaking properly, so you learn
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Nativist Language Theory
Definition
  • Language is in our genes and we've evolved to speak
  • LAD: Langauge Acquisition Device; a part of our brain; almost every language has nouns and verbs so that's how we were born to speak
  • There are sensitive periods of language learning
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Interactionist
Definition
  • Combo of cognitive processes, social processes, and LAD
  • (Cognitive) Need to plan ahead to speak
  • (Social) Emotional expression, sarcasm, etc.
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Preoperational Limitations
Definition
  • Egocentrism; difficulty imagining others' perspectives
  • Animistic thinking; inanimate objects have similar experiences to them
  • Centration; giving focus to only one aspect of a thing at a time
  • Irreversability; cannot reverse actions in their heads
  • Perceptual Boundedness; rely on what they can observe of a person
  • Fail conservation tasks
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Private Speech
Definition
  • Self-scaffolding
  • Teach and organize self
  • More talking > harder tasks can be completed
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Parental Factors Facilitating Pride, Shame, and Guilt
Definition
  • Parental examples
  • Parent's comments on worth of child
  • Parent's focus on how to improve performance
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Attention and Memory
Definition
  • Inhibition and planning improve
  • This is linked to development in cerebral cortex
  • Still do not use memory strategies
  • Scripts (familiar, repeated events) help memory
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Factors of Emotional Development
Definition
  • Gains in representation, language, and self-concept
  • More experience w/ self concious emotions & empathy
  • Develope sense of morality
  • Parenting influences emotional competence
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Factors of empathy becoming Prosocial and leading to Sympathy
Definition
  • Sociable temperament
  • Better self-regulation
  • Warm, encouraging parenting
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Consequences of Physical Punishment
Definition
  • Promotes only immediate obediance, not long term
  • More likely to develope lasting mental health probs
  • Models aggression
  • Develope chronic sense of being personally threatened
  • May transfer to next gen
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