Dev. Psych Exam 1.5

Occurs when infants make the mistake of selecting the familiar hiding place (A) rather than the new hiding place (B) as they progress into substage 4 in Piaget's sensorimotor stage.

Piagetian concept of adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences.

A loss or impairment of language ability caused by brain damage.

Piagetian concept of using existing schemes to deal with new information or experiences.

The focusing of mental resources on select information.

Scales that are widely used in the assessment of infant development. The current version has 3 components: a mental scale, a motor scale, and an infant behavior profile.

An area in the brain's left frontal lobe involved in speech production. With damage, have difficulty producing words correctly.

Language spoken in a higher pitch than normal with simple words and sentences.

Piaget's 4th sensorimotor substage, which develops between 8 and 12 months of age. Actions become more outwardly directed, and infants coordinate schemes an dact with intentionality.

Imitation that ocurs after a delay of hours or days.

An overall score that combinessubscores in motor, language, adaptive, an dpersonal-social domains in th eGesell assessment of infants.

A mechanism that Piaget proposed to explain how children shift from one stage of thought to th enext.

Piaget's 2nd sensorimotor substage, which develops between 1 and 4 months of age. In this substage, the infant coordinates sensation and two types of schemes: habits and primary circular reactions.

Memory without conscious recollection; involves skills and routine procedures that are automatically performed.

The ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words and rules.