Key Terms

A-not-B error

accommodation

assimilation

autobiographical memories

basic processes

centration

concrete operational stage

conservation concept

cultural tools

deferred imitation

dynamic-systems theories

egocentrism

encoding

equilibration

formal operational stage

guided participation

information-processing theories

intersubjectivity

joint attention

long-term memory

object permanence

overlapping-waves theory

preoperational stage

private speech

problem solving

rehearsal

selective attention

sensorimotor stage

social scaffolding

sociocultural theories

symbolic representation

task analysis

working memory