Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
5 results found in Cognitive Development.
- Guided Participation
- Guided participation is a concept from Barbara Rogoff's developmental psychology describing how children learn through engaged collaboration with more experienced partners in everyday shared activitie…
- Imitation (Embodied Imitation)
- The act of observing and reproducing another person's actions, gestures, or vocalisations. Imitation is a foundational social and developmental skill that supports language acquisition, motor learning…
- Laterality (Left-Right Discrimination, Lateral Awareness)
- Laterality is the ability to distinguish between left and right sides of the body and to apply this understanding to the surrounding environment for spatial orientation and navigation. Laterality is a…
- Object Permanence
- The cognitive understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be directly perceived through sight, sound, or touch. This developmental milestone, typically achieved in infancy for s…
- Transitional Object (Comfort Object)
- A concept from developmental psychology, introduced by D. W. Winnicott, referring to a soft, often tactile object - a blanket, stuffed toy, or similar - that a child uses to support self-soothing and …