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Class: PSY 3350 - Lifespan Human Development; Subject: Psychology; University: Baylor University; Term: Spring 2012;
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The research tradition that spawned standardized tests of intelligence and that views intelligence as a trait or a set of traits than can be measured and that varies from person to person. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 A perspective on development applied to motor development which proposes that more sophisticated patterns of motor behavior emerge over time through a "self-organizing" process in which children modify their motor behavior in adaptive ways on the basis of the sensory feedback they receive when they try different movements. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Thinking that involves "converging" on the one best answer to a problem; what IQ tests measure. Contrast with divergent thinking. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 The rise in average IQ scores over the 20th century. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 A widely used instrument that allows an observer to determine how intellectually stimulating or impoverished a home environment is.
An information-processing theory of intelligence that emphasizes three aspects of intelligent behavior; a practical component emphasizing the effect of context on what is intelligent; a creative component centering on whether a task is novel or familiar; and an analytic component focuses on the cognitive processes used to solve a problem. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 The process by which information processing becomes effortless and highly efficient as a result of continued practice or increased expertise. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 The notion that impoverished environments inhibit intellectual growth and that these inhibiting effects accumulate over time. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 The situation that arises in testing when one cultural or subcultural group is more familiar with test items than another group and therefore has an unfair advantage. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 The phenomenon in which extraordinary talent in a particular area is displayed by a person who is otherwise mentally retarded.
The young child's tendency to use general words to refer to a smaller set of objects, actions, or events than adults do (for example, using candy to refer only to mints). Contrast with overextension. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 Rules of syntax that allow a person to transform declarative statements into questions, negatives, imperatives, and other kinds of sentences. TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 The idea that the letters in printed words represent the sounds in spoken words. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 In language development, the ability to break the stream of speech sounds into distinct words. TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 A single-word utterance used by an infant that represents an entire sentence's worth of meaning.
Early sentences that consist primarily of content words and omit the less meaningful parts of speech such as articles, prepositions, pronouns, and auxiliary verbs. TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 To separate the demands of a task at hand from prior beliefs and knowledge. TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 The understanding that spoken words can be decomposed into some number of basic sound units, or phonemes; an important skill in learning to read. TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 An early form of vocalization that appears between 4 and 6 months of age and involves repeating consonant-vowel combinations such as "baba" or "dadada." TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 The young child's tendency to use a word to refer to a wider set of objects, actions, or events than adults do (for example, using the word car to refer to all motor vehicles).