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| maturation | automatic and sequential process of development that results from genetic signals |
| critical period | a stage or point in development during which a person is best suited to learn a particular skill or behavior pattern |
| sensorimotor stage | Piaget's 1st stage of cognitive development, learning to coordinate sensation and perception with motor activity |
| object permanence | understanding that objects still exist even when they cannot be seen or touched |
| preoperational stage | Piaget's 2nd stage of cognitive development, children use words or symbols to represent objects, 2 years old |
| concrete-operational stage | Piaget's 3rd stage of cognitive development, 7 years old, children show signs of adult thinking |
| formal-operational stage | Piaget's 4th stage of cognitive development, 11/12 years old, cognitive maturity, thinking abstractly |
| preconventional moral reasoning | Kohlberg's 1st stage of moral development, 0-9 years old, base judgments on the consequences of behavior |
| conventional moral reasoning | Kohlberg's 2nd stage of moral development, make judgments in terms of whether or not an act conforms to conventional standards of right and wrong |
| postconventional moral reasoning | Kohlberg's 3rd stage of moral development, reasoning is based on one's own moral standards of goodness |
| assimilation | processing new information by placing it into a pre-existing category |
| accomodation | processing of new information by placing it into a new category |
| artificialism | a belief by a child that all things are created by man |
| animism | a belief by a child that all things have human qualities and characteristics |
| egocentrism | a child's inability to see the world from another point of view |
