Lecture Notes Review: Perception, Memory, and Language Development

This set of flashcards covers important vocabulary terms and definitions related to perception, memory, and language development in infancy and early childhood, crucial for understanding cognitive development.

Perception

The cognitive processes used to interpret sensory information.

Visual Perception

The ability to make sense of visual sensory information.

Episodic Memory

Involves personal experiences and specific events, such as remembering details of one's first day of school.

Semantic Memory

Deals with facts and general knowledge, like knowing a dog is a common animal.

Object Permanence

The understanding that physical objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen.

Core Knowledge

A small number of innate systems that infants build on during cognitive development.

Event Memory

Information about specific personal experiences, often relying on social collaboration.

Attention

The deployment of mental resources to one or more tasks.

Disengagement Attention

The ability to stop attending to other stimuli.

Critical Period

A specific timeframe before puberty during which language development must occur to achieve mature fluency.

Child Directed Speech

Speech that helps infants focus their attention on important words and emotional expressions.

Scripts

Basic building blocks of children's mental representation and memories.

Inhibitory Control

The ability to maintain attention and inhibit impulsive responses.

Dual Representation

The ability to mentally represent an object in two ways: as the object and as a symbol.