Psychologists
This psychologists theorized development consists of five stages called psychosexual development.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This discipline is concerned with teaching and learning processes; applies the methods and theories of psychology and has its own as well.
What is Educational psychology
A hypothetical model that describes a process as a series of phases or steps that occur over time
What is stage theory?
Proposed that child brain are different than adult brains.
Who is Jean Piaget?
These cells transfer information.
Neurons
Studied learning through association, proposed the theory of classical conditioning.
who is Ivan Pavlov?
The goal of this type of research is to explore specific situations or people in depth and to understand the meaning of the events to the people involved in order to tell their story.
What is Qualitative Research?
This theory says that the individual is at the center of knowledge creation and acquisition.
What is Piaget's Constructivism?
An understanding that other people are people too, with their own minds, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, desires, and perceptions.
What is the Theory of mind?
The specialization of the two hemispheres (sides) of the brain cortex.
What is Lateralization
Believed that development as a product of interaction between biological and environmental forces.
Gilbert Gottlieb
Internal and external circumstances and situations that interact with the individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions to shape development and learning. The physical or emotional backdrop associated with an event.
What is context?
The idea that learning occurs through social interaction and the help of others, often in a group.
What is Vygotsky's Constructivism
Emily is having a bad hair day, she thins everyone notices. What idea best represents how she is thinking?
What is Formal operations
The brain's tendency to remain somewhat flexible and flexible is because of what?
What is plasticity?
This psychologists coined the term zone of proximal development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
In this Piagetian theory, mental systems or categories are based on perception and experience.
What is Schemes
A single behavior can be examined using different ______, each having their own strengths and weaknesses.
What is Cognitive frameworks?
A middle school child is having trouble understanding the concept of variables. They keep saying "how can a letter be a number?" What concept with the child having trouble with?
What is Formal operations?
We learn this skill rapidly in the first 3 years of our lives.
Despite not having a bachelors degree, this psychologist taught at Harvard and Yale.
Who is Erik Erikson
A psychologists decides to look into how high school basketball players perform during and after school. This psychologist is making a ________.
What is a Case Study?
This theory can explain why students get excited to play jeopardy, knowing they will get candy for answering questions correctly.
What is classical conditioning?
A child is having trouble understanding that if you give them 4 quarters of a chocolate bar, it is the same as receiving 1 full chocolate bar. What concept of concrete operations is the child having trouble with?
What is reversibility?
This process occurs in young children and contribute to neuroplasticity.
What is pruning