Theory of Cognitive Development
Abstract and Complex
All About Thinking
Adolescent Development
The Brain
100
This person proposed the most influential theory of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
The term for the capacity of humans to engage in "thinking about thinking".
What is metacognition?
100
The original model for the information processing approach.
What is the computer?
100
The ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of others.
What is perspective taking?
100
The last structure of the brain stop growing.
What is the Cerebellum?
200
According to Piaget, this is the driving force from one stage to the next in development.
What is maturation?
200
The two related categories for the limitations of Piaget's theory of formal operations.
What are The Individual Differences in Formal Operations and Culture and Formal Operations?
200
Adolescents and first- year college students tend to engage in this thinking.
What is dualistic thinking?
200
At this age children become capable "mutual perspective taking" for the first time.
What is 10-12 years old?
200
Two types of intelligence that can be evaluated by intelligence test.
What is Linguistic and Logical- mathematical?
300
The two processes involved in the use of schemes.
What is assimilation and accommodation?
300
The result of formal operational thinking that is more complex than what occurs in concrete operations.
What is the ability to use and understand metaphors and sarcasm?
300
Basseche's term for the kind of thinking that develops in emerging adulthood, involving a growing awareness that problems often have no clear solution, and that 2 opposing strategies or points may each have some merit.
What is dialectical thought?
300
The tendency to assume that accidents, diseases, and other misfortunes are more likely to happen to others than to ourselves.
What is "optimistic bias"?
300
The process in which a considerable thickening of synaptic connections occurs during puberty.
What is overproduction or exuberance?
400
Piaget's stages of cognitive development.
What are sensorimotor, pre- operational, concrete operations, and formal operations?
400
Helps adolescents to build resilience and navigate challenging social terrain.
What is sarcastic humor?
400
The term defined by adapting logical thinking to the practical constraints of real life situations.
What is pragmatism?
400
Adolescents belief in the uniqueness of their personal experiences and their personal destiny.
What is "personal fable"?
400
Proven to cause schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression.
What is rapid pruning of grey matter during emerging adulthood?
500
Enables adolescents to focus on the most important aspects of a problem and ignore irrelevant information.
What is "executive functioning"?
500
The most widely used intelligence test.
What is Wechsler Scales
500
A skill that adolescents do not develop automatically or inevitably.
What is "critical thinking"?
500
The ability to attribute mental states to one's self and others, including beliefs, thoughts, and feelings.
What is "theory of mind"?
500
Two of Vytgotsky's most influential ideas.
What is the zone of proximal development and scaffolding?
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