Theorists
Piaget's Stages
Piaget Vocabulary
Theories
Definitions
100

Succession of 8 hierarchical needs, divided into deficiency needs (physiological, safety, belongingness and love, and esteem needs) and growth needs (need for knowledge and understanding, aesthetic needs, self actualization, and transcendence).

Maslow's Hierarchy of Need

100

Piaget's theory is the theory of ___________ development 

cognitive

100

Realization that things continue to exist even if they are not in view.  Developed during sensorimotor stage 

Object Permanence 

100

Theory that states there are 8 intelligences including:  musical, body-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, verbal, logical, naturalitic and visual.

Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences 

100

Understanding developed during the concrete operational stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory that allows children to infer relationships between two objects based on the objects' relation to a third object in serial order. 

Transitivity

200

Theory created by Howard Gardner in 2004.  They include musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, naturalistic, intrapersonal, and visual-spatial

Multiple Intelligences theory

200

Fourth stage in which children develop better reasoning and abstract thinking 

Formal Operational Stage 

200

World view developed during th epreoperationals tage that means children see the world from their own perspective and not other points of view 

Egocentrism 

200
Identifies thinking and problem solving through 3 basic mental processes:  attending to sensory imput in the sensory register, encoding the attended information into short-term or working memory, and retrieving infromation from long-term memory

Information Processing Theory

200

In Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development, it is a new experience that forces children to accommodate or assimilate existing schema. 

Disequilibrium

300

Cognitive development theorist who identified four stages of cognitive development in children:  sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational.

Piaget

300

First stage in which young children learn about their world through their senses 

Sensorimotor

300

Ways in which we organize information as we confront new ideas 

Schema

300

Theory of child development which outlines 5 levels of influence from a student's environment:  individual, microcosystem, mesosystem, exosystem and macrosystem.

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory

300

Framework for instructional design to meet the needs of all leraners in which teachers develop lessons aroudn three core concepts that tsupport acessibility:  engagement, representation and expression

Universal Design for Learning

400

A theory of child development which outlines five levels of influence from a student’s environment:  individual, microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem.

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory

400

Third stage where kids start to think more logically and abstractly.

Concrete operational 

400

Balance achieved when schema align with experiences 

equilibrium

400

Approach toward learning that centers social interactions as opportunities for constructing new knowledge.  Sociocultural Theory and ZPD are examples of this

Social Constructivism

400

Difference between what a learner can do without help and what they can do with help

Zone of Proximal Development
500

Approach toward learning that centers social interactions as opportunities for constructing new knowledge.  Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and zone of proximal development are examples

Social Constructivism

500

Stage in which children develop language, imagination and memory. 

Pre-Operational Stage

500

understanding that specific properties of objects remain the same even if other properties change.

Conservation

500

Act of constructing understanding of the owrld through cognitive development.  Piaget's concepts of schema, equilibrium, disequalibrium, assimilation and accommodation are parts of this theory

Cognitive Constructivism 

Theory of Cognitive Development 

500

Ability to monitor and think about your own thinking.

Metacognition

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