Jean Piaget believed that children:
actively construct their own cognitive world
Schemes refer to:
actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.
Josh is three months old. In which of Jean Piaget's substages of sensorimotor development is Josh?
First habits and primary circular reactions
Which is the process by which information gets into memory?
Encoding
Mandy sees a little girl in the grocery store throwing a tantrum for a toy. Mandy screams and cries for some candy the following week at the mall. Mandy is displaying:
deferred imitation
Phonology is to _____ as morphology is to _____.
sound; meaning
Identify the correct sequence of vocalization in infants.
Crying, cooing, babbling
Kyoko is 13 months old and can understand about 50 words but can say only about 10 words. This demonstrates how Kyoko's _____ vocabulary is more developed than her _____ vocabulary.
receptive; spoken
_____ is an area in the left temporal lobe of the brain that is involved in the comprehension of speech.
Wernicke's area
The interactionist view of language development emphasizes that:
both biology and experience contribute to language development.