Language development unit 4

object permanence

the knowledge that objects have an existence in time and space, independent of whether or not they can be seen or touched.

means-end

the knowledge that objects have an existence in time and space, independent of whether or not they can be seen or touched.

schema

organized representation of knowledge; psychological structures that allow a child to organize knowledge about objects, entities, concepts, and actions.

adaptation

the process of changing a schema in response to a new entity (new information)

assimilation

a process that involves fitting a new entity into existing schema.

accomodation

a process that involves changing existing schema to make the new entity fit.

equilibrium

state of "cognitive balance"

cooing

a stage in infants prelinguistic speech development that consists of the productions of single-syllable, vowel-like sounds.

reduplicative babbling

repeated sequences of repeated consonant-vowel like sounds (babababa)

variegated babblung

a stage in babbling characterized by varied sequences of sounds in syllables (babigoogi)

jargon

sequences of variegated babbling that have the intonation shape of the child's native language.