cognitive development- infant/toddler

reflexes

acquired adaptations; adapt reflexes to environment; primary circular reaction

baby's own body source of response; repetition of chance action

babies become more aware of others; secondary circular response

pepetition of actions that trigger responses in external environment

object permanence but make AB erroe; hallmark of intentional behavior

goal directed behavior begins to appear; purposeful actions

use trial & error method; tertiary circular reaction

marked by variation in a given behavior

mental combinations (putting things together), representational thinking (needed for pretend play), deferred imitation (prtend about things they have experienced), pretending

maintains that children learn to talk through conditioning and reinforcement

believes that children have an innate predisposition to learn language at a certain age; believs babies have an inborn understanding of the basic structure of language- called deep structure

particular vocabulary and grammar of language; does not have to be learned

language aquisition device; innate human ability to learn language

view that certain skills are "native" or hard-wired into the brain at birth

involves the ways words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences

refers to meaning of words and sentences

kind of speech often often used by mothers or other adults to talk to babies- in high pitch with simple words

rephrase what child says; often in a question

restating, in linguistically sophosticated form, what a child said

becomes part of baby's deliberate effort to communicate

words the individual understands but cannot speak (6-9 months)

use the same words for anything similar; i.e. all drinks are "milk"

single word that expresses a complete thought

use content words without grammatical markers like verbs or connectives ("Mommy no go")