Child Development Flash Cards Page 2

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The ability to delay

Cognitive abilities in

instant gratification

the frontal lobes

in pursuit of

necessary for complex

longer-range positive

thinking, planning, and

outcomes.

goal-directed behavior.

The productive of

A biologically organized mental

structure in the brain that

repetitive syllables,

facilitates the learning of

characteristic of the

language because (according to

Chomsky) it is innately

early stages of

programmed with some of the

language acquisition.

fundamental rules of grammar.

The rules of a language,

specifying how to use the

elements of language and

word order to produce

understandable sentences

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