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enuresis - Answer- ✔✔repeated urination in clothing or in bed during the night
gross motor skills - Answer- ✔✔physical skills that involve large muscle groups
(running, jumping)
fine motor skills - Answer- ✔✔physical skills that involve the small muscle and eye-hand
coordination (allows personal care)
system of action - Answer- ✔✔increasingly complex combinations of skills, which permit
a wider or more precise range of movement and more control of the environment (tying
a knot)
handedness - Answer- ✔✔preference for using a particular hand
preoperational stage - Answer- ✔✔second major stage of cognitive development, in
which symbolic thought expands but children cannot yet use logic (ages 2-7)
symbolic function - Answer- ✔✔using mental representations to which a child has
attaching meaning
deferred imitation - Answer- ✔✔keeping a mental representation of a previously
observed event
pretend play - Answer- ✔✔play involving imaginary people and situations
language - Answer- ✔✔uses a system of symbols to communicate
transduction - Answer- ✔✔tendency to mentally link particular phenomena whether or
not there is logically a casual relationship
animism - Answer- ✔✔tendency to attribute life to objects that are not alive
ordinarily - Answer- ✔✔the concept of comparing quantities
cardinality - Answer- ✔✔principle of counting
number sense - Answer- ✔✔counting, number knowledge, number transformations,
estimation, number patterns
, centration - Answer- ✔✔the tendency of children to focus on one aspect of a situation
and neglect others
decenter - Answer- ✔✔to think simultaneously about several aspects of a situation
egocenterism - Answer- ✔✔inability to consider another person's point of view
conservations - Answer- ✔✔the fact that two things that are equal remain so if their
appearance is altered as long as nothing is taken away or added
irreversibility - Answer- ✔✔failure to understand that an operation can go in two or more
directions
encoding - Answer- ✔✔process by which info is prepared for long-term storage and
later retrieval
storage - Answer- ✔✔retention of info in memory for future self
retrieval - Answer- ✔✔process by which info is accessed or recalled from memory
storage
sensory memory - Answer- ✔✔temporary holding tank for incoming sensory info
working memory - Answer- ✔✔short-term storage of info being actively processed
executive function - Answer- ✔✔conscious control of thoughts, actions, and emotions to
accomplish goals or solve problems
central executive - Answer- ✔✔element of working memory that controls the processing
of info (encodes for transfer of long-term memory)
long-term memory - Answer- ✔✔storage of virtually unlimited capacity that holds info for
long periods of time
recognition - Answer- ✔✔the ability to identify a previously encountered stimulus
recall - Answer- ✔✔the ability to reproduce knowledge from memory
generic memory - Answer- ✔✔memory that produces scripts of familiar routines to
guide behavior
script - Answer- ✔✔general remembered outline of a familiar, repeated event used to
guide behavior