Piaget I
Mental structures that are involved in the acquisition and organization of knowledge
What are schemas?
Stage of development from birth to 2 years wherein children experience the world through their senses and actions
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The distance between what a child can do on their own and what they can do with a little help
What is the zone of proximal development?
The program that started due to Bronfenbrenner's contributions
What is Head Start?
Seven stages of the life journey from the Happy Stage to the Wisdom Stage
What are the Turtle Lodge Teachings?
When we modify or change new information to fit into what we already know
What is assimilation?
Stage of development from about age 2-7 years wherein children are learning to represent things with words and images but lack some logical reasoning abilities
What is the preoperational stage?
A process in which a more competent person provides a temporary framework that supports a child's higher-level thinking than what they can do on their own
What is scaffolding?
The name of Bronfenbrenner's theory
What is ecological systems theory?
An organizing paradigm/visual that has four components/directions/elements
What is the medicine wheel?
When we restructure or modify what we already know so that new information can fit better
What is accomodation?
A limitation of the sensorimotor stage wherein a child lacks the ability to understand that an object still exists when they can't see it
What is object permanence?
Communication with the self for self-regulation or guiding oneself through a difficult task
What is private speech?
The institutions and groups that most immediately and directly impact the child's development (e.g., family, school)
What is the microsystem?
Component that Indigenous worldviews presented about child development that other theories discussed in class did not
What is spiritual development?
The status of harmony between your schemas and experiences
What is equilibrium?
Technique used to demonstrate whether children have egocentrism (tendency to view the world from one's own perspective)
What is the three mountain problem/test?
The name of Vygotksy's theory
What is socio-cultural theory?
The pattern of environmental events and transitions over the life course as well as sociohistorical circumstances
What is the chrono-system?
Theory discussed in class that had the MOST overlap with Indigenous perspectives on child development
What is Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory?
An unpleasant state that occurs when new information cannot fit into existing schemas
What is disequilibrium?
The tendency to be able to focus on only one aspect of a time
What is centration?
Two examples used in class to talk about how cultural understanding influences language and understanding of mathematical concepts
What is the Japanese abacus and Piraha people in Brazil?
The connections, interactions, and relationships between the components of the micro-system
What is the meso-system?
Cumulative stress and grief experienced by specific communities that is translated into a collective experience of cultural disruption
What is inter-generational trauma?