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Matching Key Concepts
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Match the following terms with their definitions.
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myelination

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operations

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egocentrism

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animism

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centration

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conservation

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social constructivist approach

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theory of mind

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symbolic function substage

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intuitive thought substage

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zone of proximal development (ZPD)

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short-term memory

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strategies

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child-centered kindergarten

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Montessori approach

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developmentally appropriate practice

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A)The inability to distinguish between one's own perspective and someone else's (salient feature of the first substage of preoperational thought).
B)The memory component in which individuals retain information for up to 30 seconds, assuming there is no rehearsal.
C)A government-funded program designed to provide low-income children with the opportunities needed for school success.
D)Process by which the nerve cells are covered and insulated with a layer of fat cells, which increases the speed at which information travels through the nervous system.
E)Approach that emphasizes the social contexts of learning and the idea that knowledge is mutually built and constructed.
F)Piaget's first substage of preoperational thought, in which a child can mentally represent an object that is not present.
G)In Piaget’s theory, awareness that altering an object’s or a substance's appearance does not change its basic properties.
H)Vygotsky's term for tasks too difficult for children to master alone but that can be mastered with assistance.
I)Education that involves the whole child by considering the child’s physical, cognitive, and social development.
J)In Piaget's theory, internalized sets of actions that allow children to do mentally what they formerly did physically.
K)Belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of action.
L)Education that focuses on the typical developmental patterns of children ( age-appropriateness) and the uniqueness of each child( individual-appropriateness)
M)Refers to the awareness of one's own mental processes and the mental processes of others.
N)Piaget's second substage of preoperational thought—a child begins to reason primitively.
O)Deliberate mental activities to improve the processing of information.
P)The focusing of attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all others.
Q)Educational philosophy in which children are given considerable freedom in choosing activities.







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