The development of body, thought & Language - created from Mind Map

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Physical development

Hof Infants learn about the Environment

Three theories of Children's Mental Development

Childrens understanding Of minds

The Nature of Language and Children's Early linguistic Abilities

Internal and External Supports for language Development

Prenatal development

Physical development: Puberty and Adolescence

Zygotic, Embrotic and Fetal Phases

Effects of experience during the Prenatal period

The Infant as explorer

Infants knowledge of Core physical principles

Infants look selectively at Novel Objects

Infants seek to control their environments

Infants explore increasingly with hands and Eyes together

Infants us Social Cues to Guide Their Exploration

Infants reveal core Knowledge in selective-looking Experiments

Infants reveal less knowledge in Search Tasks than in selective-Looking Tasks

Piaget's Theory: role of the Child'S own Actions in mental growth

Vygotsky's Theory: Role of the Sociaoculutral Environment in Mental Growth

An Information-processing Perspective on Mental Development

Schemes develop through Assimilation and Accomodation

Children behave like little scientists

Reversible Actions (operations) Promote Development

4 Types of Schemes/ 4 Stages of development

Criticism of Piaget's Theory of Stages

The sensorimotor Stage

The preoperational Stage

The concrete-operational Stage

The formal-Operational Stage

Tool of intellectual Adaption

The role of Collaboration and Dialogue in Mental Development

The childs Apprentice

Development of Long-Term Memory Systems: Episodic comes last

The development of Basic-Level Processes: Executive Funtion

Every young Children explain behavior in mental terms

Autism: A disorder in understanding minds

Delay in Understanding beliefs, especially false beliefs

Make-Believe as a Precursor to the Belief-Reality Distinction

Universal characteristics of Human Language

The course of language Development

All language use Symbols (Morphemes) That are arbitrary and discrete

All languages are hierarchically structured in a similar way

grammatical rules are usually learned implicitly not explicitly

Early Perception of speech sounds

Cooing and Babbling

Word comprehension precedes word production

Naming and Rapid vocabulary Development

Extending words to fit appropriate Categories

Using Grammar Rules

The idea of special Inborn Mechanisms for language learning

The language- Acquisition Support System

Bilingualism

Chomsky's concept of an innate-learning Device

Children' Invention of Grammar

Critical Period for Learning the Grammar of One's First Language

Parents' Speech to infants affects language Acquisition

Cross cultural Differences in the LASS

simultaneous and Sequential Bilinguals

Costs and Benefits of Bilingualism