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| In Piaget’s theory, the mental process of combining, separating, or transforming information in a logical manner |
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| According to Paiget, the stage of thinking between infancy and middle childhood where children are unable to decenter their thinking or to think through consequences of an action |
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| To center oneself to consider the world entirely in terms of one’s own point of view |
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| Paigets reasoning of young children that do not follow the procedures of either deductive or inductive reasoning |
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| Information-processing approach |
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| A strategy for explaining cognitive development based on an analogy with the workings digital computer |
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| Part of the information-processing system that stores incoming information for a fraction of a second before it is selectively processed |
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| Part of the information-processing system that holding incoming sensory information until it is taken up into long-term memory or forgotten |
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| Memory that is retained over a long period of time |
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| Cognitive domains that call upon specialized kinds of information, require specifically designated forms of reasoning, and appear to be of evolutionary importance to the human species |
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| The ability to think about other people’s mental states and form theories of how they think |
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| Innate mental faculties that receive inputs from particular classes of objects and produce corresponding information to the world |
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| A mental condition defined by an inability to relate normally to other people and low scores on intelligence tests |
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| Domain-specific principles to get particular cognitive processes started and provide some initial direction, but require subsequent experience in order to realize their potential |
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| Event schemas that specify who participates in an event, what social roles they play, what objects are used during the event, the and sequence of actions that make up the event |
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