Piaget + Vygotsky
the names of Piaget’s 4 stages are...
What is.....Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete operational stage, formal operational stage
Rearrange the stages so that they are in typical teaching order:
Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking.
What is... Listening, speaking, reading, writing
Teratogens are ________.
What is... a substance that causes developmental abnormalities in fetus
The brain exhibits _________, allowing it to modify its structure and function based on learning, experiences, and environmental changes.
What is... Neuroplasticity
A child calls toilet paper a paper towel. The state they are in is _____. If their parent corrects them, ____ is happening
What is... Disequilibrium, Accommodation
Vygotsky believed in social interaction, Piaget believed in ______.
What is.....Physical interaction
The existence of universal grammar supports this theory of language acquisition.
What is... Nativist Theory
A group of researchers took a group of 25 infants to research consistently for 35 years. This kind of study is called ______.
What is... longitudinal
During a certain point in adolescence, individuals' brains begin to rid themselves of unnecessary neuron connections. This transformation is called ______.
What is...Synaptic pruning
Jane just moved in next to a church. Every hour, a loud bell goes off. For the first couple days, it scared her. Then, she barely hears it.
What is... Habituation
If we asked a child in the Concrete Operational stage to imagine a world where everyone was born without thumbs, the child's response would lack...
What is... abstract, Practical and logical thinking
A mother hears her daughter talking to herself in the next room, when she walks in, she realizes that her daughter has begun to form two-word sentences. Her daughter is ______ years/months old.
What is... 24 months/2 years
If a mother drinks alcohol a day before realizing she is pregnant and then stops drinking it once she knows, but eats salmon during her pregnancy to fulfill her craving, ______ will influence the development of her baby.
What is... salmon and drinking
A child is raised in an environment where he can't get much exercise and doesn’t have access to a lot of food. He will have _________.
What is... impoverished brain cells
A child is trying to do their homework, and their parent is giving them help with the steps that they’re confused about. The parent is _____ their child and helping them reach __________.
What is... scaffolding, the Zone of Proximal Development
In the pre-operational stage one of the follow is not present: Animism, Egocentrism, conservation, or concentration.
What is.... conservation
A set of twins are separated at birth and placed into two remotely similar environments. Twin 1 was placed with responsive and invested parents, and twin 2 with busy parents who had often left their kid with a housekeeper who did not speak the native language. Eventually, twin 2 fell significantly behind twin 1 in terms of native language vocabulary. The theory of language acquisition that supports this finding is _______.
What is... Learning (Behaviorist)
A baby stares longer at a dog that barks instead of one that does not, because ______.
What is... babies look longer when things/something unexpected/surprising
A child is not growing new nervous tissue at the rate of her classmate. Reasonings that we learned in class are _______ and _____.
What is... a lack of exercise and sleep. (neurogenesis is boosted by exercise and hindered by a lack of sleep)
A mother was given a medication to help with morning sickness, but when she gave birth, her fetus had a birth defect. She was likely on ______ based on what we learned in class?
What is... Thalidomide
A child who is confused as to why his father doesn’t see the toy behind him is suffering from ______. The stage the child is in is ____. The child is ______ years/months old.
What is....Egocentrism, Preoperational stage, 2-7
Mother A talks to her baby in infant directed speech, and mother B talks to her baby in regular speech. Infant directed speech is ____, and the outcome on the language development for the child will be _____ .
What is “baby talk”? What is... infant directed speech is not necessary for language development, both babies will develop language.
An alcoholic mother pregnant with twins decides that her cravings are more important than her own child and decides to go out and drink. This choice can affect the child by ________.
What is... Baby can develop Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
A person is processing information quicker than they were before. This is because ______.
What is... going through synaptic pruning, getting rid of connections they don’t need anymore, which allows them to be more efficient in brain processing
Child A and B are given a challenging assignment. Child A has a supportive parent at home, while child B rarely receives help from their parents. Child ____ will learn the work faster because ______ .
What is A? What is helping reach Zone of Proximal Development? (The supportive person will allow Child A to reach the Zone of Proximal Development, while Child B will stay in a state of anxiety.)