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Sense of Self?
One's sense of being separate from others and from the environment and eventually taking into account hoe one affects others and is affected by others.
Means-ends Coordination?
The ability to fashion goals and construct the methods of reaching those goals.
Internal Mental Consistency?
The organization of schemes such that, in assimilating the world, they do not produce contradictory outcomes.
Objective Knowledge?
An expression that refers to logical or rational knowledge but further suggests a knowledge about the world "as the world really is."
Formation of Concepts?
The formation of ideas that are capable of being shared.
Reflective Abstraction?
An aspects of Piaget's theory concerning how children advance their own level of development by understanding their own practical abilities or knowledge.
Action schema?
A scheme that specifically relates to an action of the muscles.
Equilibrium?
A central concept in Piaget's theory holding that stages of development represent a partial balance between assimilation and accommodation such that the child can effectively function within a certain domain of action.
Rationality?
The form of knowing that id closely aligned with logical necessity and can be reasoned about with others.
Coordination of Part-whole?
An understanding that wholes can be divided into parts and that parts can be combined into wholes and that there are certain logical relationships that hold between parts and wholes such that, for example, the whole is greater than the part.
Each person's unique means of maintaining acceptable emotional states while at the same time satisfying goals is referred to as....
Intelligence or Personality???
Personality
Vygotsky and Piaget are ____________ theorists?
Behaviorists or Constructivists???
Constructivists
Which statement best reflects the position of this book and chapter 14?
Play is critical to development? or
Play is children's work?
Play is critical to development
Sensorimotor play does NOT involve...
symbolic representation? or assimilation?
Symbolic representation
According to chapter 14, it is practice at_________ and not work that will one day produce the intelligent worker.
Play
What theorist thought social-cultural experience and learning was an important area of focus?
Vygotsky
What theorist thought purposeful activity, competence, and industry were an important area of focus?
Erikson
What theorist thought conceptual development was important area of focus?
Piaget
Vygotsky's work emphasized the centrality of?
Accommodation
Which theorist wrote about the role of play and the development of the social self?
Mead
For preschool children, play provides opportunities for functional practice for competencies such as________
Large and fine motor coordinations
________ takes place when schemes or competencies are inadequate and creates contradictory results.
Accommodation
The authors state that a curriculum that is _________ can best achieve the developmentally appropriate goals early childhood educators set for all young children.
Play centered or play based
An example of how an early childhood educator can advocate for play within the school or program is_____
reading and sharing materials on play/ advocating for increased time and matrials for outdoor play/ preparing the environment to enrich play/ explaining to families how the play-centered curriculum supports their child’s learning and development through photos, documentation panels, classroom signs, and workshops
An example of how an early childhood educator can join with others to advocate for play at the country, state, or national level is ___________
becoming active in a national organization such as NAEYC Interest Group, Play, Policy, and Practice or TRUCE/ working at the state level to ensure policies that protect outdoor play and recess.