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At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
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Grasp the role the concepts of assimilation, accommodation, and schemes play in the individual’s adaptation in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development |
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Describe Piaget’s sensorimotor stage of development, including the six substages and object permanence |
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Discuss the contributions of Piaget’s theory to the perceptual and conceptual development of infants, and then discuss how more modern researchers might modify his views |
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Explain how research with infants has demonstrated the role of conditioning in early cognitive abilities |
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Describe the concepts of habituation and dishabituation |
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Understand the infant’s memory capabilities and how that relates to imitation |
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Discuss the history of intelligence testing, the tests that are used to test infant intelligence, and the relationship between infant cognitive abilities and cognitive functioning in childhood and adolescence |
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Describe what language is and how it relates to the concept of infinite generativity |
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Explain the developmental milestones in language development including receptive vocabulary, the holophrase hypothesis, and telegraphic speech |
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Describe how biological development influences the development of language and cite evidence to support Chomsky’s view of language development |
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Describe the behavioural view of language development and be able to indicate how environmental factors influence the development of language |