Preoperational: - Answers in Piagetian theory, the stage of cognitive development during which children
use symbols to represent objects and events
Preoperational Thought: - Answers egocentrism, centration, and appearance as reality
Egocentrism: - Answers seeing the world primarily from the perspective of self rather than of other
people
Centration: - Answers narrowly focused thought
Animism: - Answers crediting inanimate objects with life and life-like properties
Theory of Mind: - Answers a person's understanding of the relations between mind and behaviour
Executive Functioning: - Answers a set of cognitive abilities that enable intentional, self-regulated
behaviour—attention, concentration, planning, organizing, and reflecting on one's own thoughts and
behaviours
Most preschoolers have made the transition from _______________ to _____________ thinking,
proficient in using common symbols - Answers sensorimotor, preoperational
By age ______ children can construct complex forms of deceit/detect it - Answers 7
Age ______, children understand that their own and others behaviours is based on their beliefs about
events and situations, even if they're wrong - Answers 4
Theory of mind is necessary for children to engage in ______________ - Answers pretend play
Counterfactual Thinking: - Answers understanding that a situation or fact is opposite to reality
Attention: - Answers the process by which information is selected to be processed further
Autobiographical Memory: - Answers people's memory of the significant events and experiences of their
own lives, helps people construct a personal history
One-to-One: - Answers one number for each object being counted
Stable-Order Principle: - Answers numbers must be counted in the same order
Cardinality Principle: - Answers last number differs from the previous ones in counting order
Zone of Proximal Development: - Answers The difference between what a child can do without the
support of a more experienced caregiver and what the child can do with the support (parents help child
accomplish things)
, Scaffolding: - Answers Teaching style that matches the amount of assistance to the learner's needs,
don't constantly tell a child what to do, but also do not let them struggle unaided, collaborative
Private Speech: - Answers Comments not directed to others, but that help children regulate their own
behaviour
Talking to themselves while playing
Try to control their thoughts without others present
When they gain greater skills their private speech becomes inner speech
Telegraphic Speech: - Answers talk consisting only of words directly relevant to meaning such as
important and nouns
The rule for creating these sentences is "possessor +possession", examples - Answers Agent + action—
daddy eat
Possessor + possession—my pencil
Action + object—gimme cookie
Action + location—put chair
Entity + location—truck chair
Attribute + entity—big drum
Demonstrative + entity—that cup
Grammatical Morphemes: - Answers words or endings or words that make a sentence grammatical