PSY 2301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Language Development, Language Acquisition Device, Baby Talk

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Ronald Taylor

Document Summary

Sensorimotor stage: piaget"s irst stage of development, in which infants use informaion from their senses and motor acions to learn about the world. Primary circular reacions: piaget"s phase to describe a baby"s simple repeiive acions in substage 2 of the sensorimotor stage, organized around the body"s own body. Secondary circular reacions: repeiive acions in sub-stage 3 of the sensorimotor stage, oriented around external objects. Means-end-behavior: purposeful behavior carried out in pursuit of a speciic goal. Teriary circular reacions: the deliberate experimentaion with variaions of previous acions that occurs in sub stage 5 of the sensorimotor period. Object permanence: the understanding that objects coninue to exist when they can"t be seen. A-not-b error: sub stage 4 infants to look for an object in the place where it was last seen (posiion a) rather than in the place to which they have seen a researcher move it (posiion b)