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- At what age is your brain the most wired and "connected", when does the number of synapses peak?
- According to Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory, a scheme is an ________.
- Between 18 and 24 months, toddlers gain ________ words per ________.
- A toddler makes an underextension error when she applies a new word ________.
- Research supports the conclusion that infants' understanding of object permanence ________.
- Using abilities that emerge in sensorimotor Substage 5, toddlers ________.
- According to linguist Noam Chomsky, all children have a ________ device that contains a universal grammar.
- When children are not changing much cognitively, they ________ more than they ________.
- The earlier toddlers ________, the sooner they produce two-word utterances at the end of the second year.
- The ________ is the conscious, reflective part of our mental system.
- Piaget based the six substages of sensorimotor development on ________.
- In the information-processing system, information first enters the ________.
- ________ believed that complex mental activities have their origins in social interaction.
- ________ are so well-learned that they require no space in working memory and, therefore, permit us to focus on other information while performing them.
- ________ can be thought of as a "mental workspace" that we use to accomplish many daily activities.
- When intelligence tests are standardized, the mean IQ is set at ________.
- The first stage of Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory, spanning the first two years of life, is called the ________.
- A ________ is a means of adapting schemes that involves stumbling onto a new experience caused by the baby's own motor activity, then trying to repeat the event again and again.
- Middle-income parents are especially likely to place their children in ________ child-care settings, where quality tends to be lowest.
- When are we able to first observe signs of temperament?