Developmental Concepts in Early Childhood: Like Virtually All Children Her

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Developmental Concepts in Early Childhood: Like virtually all children her age, Andrea has already constructed a theory about her physical world. Because the teacher frequently uses a globe to show students different geographical locations, Andrea's theory includes the idea that the Earth is a sphere. In her theory, however, gravity does not pull objects toward the center of the Earth, but instead pulls them "downward" toward the South Pole or into the open space "beneath" it.

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Definitions:

Parents

The caregivers of offspring in their own species; in humans, typically refers to a child's biological or adoptive mother and father.

Extinction

in psychology, refers to the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Resistance To Extinction

The persistence of learned behavior or response even after the original stimulus (e.g., reinforcement) is no longer present.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of time without exposure to the conditioned stimulus.