Definitions
Children from three to six years of age.
What are Preschoolers?
Cognitive development theory
What is Piagets theory?
Theorists discovered eight staged of social-emotional development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Discovered the thoery of multiple intelligences.
Who is Howard Gardner?
The theorist discovered the zone of proximal development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
The processes used to gain knowledge.
What is cognitive development?
What is concrete operations stage?
First stage of Erisons Psychosocial theory.
What is trust versus mistrust?
The ability to control body movements.
What is bodily-kinesthetic intelligence?
Theory that children learn through social and cultural experiences.
What is sociocultural theory?
The sequence of biological changes in children.
What is maturation?
The stage of development between birth to age 2.
What is sensorimotor stage?
Erikson believed that between these ages toddlers want to be independent.
What is between 18 months and age 3?
Understand the inner self; self-awareness.
What is intrapersonal intelligence?
Neurons are connected by synapses.
What is true?
Key times for brain synapses to link easily and efficiently.
What is windows of opportunity?
Mental representations of concepts.
What is Schemata?
Children learn to take imitative without hurting others.
What is initiative versus guilt?
Use of vision to develop mental images.
What is visual-spatial intelligence?
The three main areas of child development.
what is Physical, cognitive, and social-emotional?
Developments tends to proceed from the head downward.
What is the cephalocaudal principle?
Objects still exist when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
Stage four of Eriksons theory.
What is industry versus inferiority?
The need to survive, classify objects in nature, animals and plants.
What is naturalistic intelligence?
Childhood experiences that can undermine the developing brain.
What is adverse?