Theories
Memory & Attention
Cognitive Milestones
Language Development
Theories of Cognitive Development, Learning & Memory
100

what theory goes believes children cognition develops in stages from sensory motor to formal operational

What is Piaget’s theory?

100

What is knowing facts (like the capital of a country)?

What is Semantic Memory? 

100

At what age do babies start to act bored?

What is 2 months old?

100

How many main stages are there of infant language development? 

What are 4 stages? 

100

What theory has conditioned stimulus (CS), unconditioned stimulus (US), conditioned response (CR), and unconditioned response (UR)?

What is classical conditioning?

200

What Vygotsky factor believes changes in society and culture can influence the tools and opportunities available for learning

what is Historical context?

200

What is remembering personal experiences (like your last birthday)?

What is Episodic Memory?

200

At what age do children understand simple 1 step commands without gestures?

What is 18 months?

200

What kind of speech is where infants use one word or partial word to express a whole phrase or sentence?

What is Holophrastic Speech?

200

What is a learning perspective that focuses on observable behavior and its changes in individuals?

What is Operant Conditioning?

300

What sub stage is in Piaget's theory is 8-12 months old?

What is sub stage 4?

What is coordination of circular reactions?

300

What is conscious memory where you actively retrieve information?

What is Explicit Memory?

300

At what age do children start to pass things from one hand to the other?

What is 6 months?

300

Who/what suggests that infants are equipped with a neurological construct of language/ LAD that makes infants ready for language?

What is nativism by Noam Chomsky

300

Whose theory was that behavior that is reinforced is more likely to be repeated, while behavior that results in punishment is less likely to be repeated?

Who is Skinner?

400

What Piaget sub stage is where the child is able to solve problems using mental strategies?

What is sub stage 6? 

What is internalization of schemes and early representational thought?

400

What is a quick-hold for information that lasts a few seconds?

What is short term memory?

400

What age do children tend to play peek-a-boo?

What is 9 months?

400

What theory believes language is acquired from others?

What is Social Pragmatics?

400

Making a child clean the bathroom because they didn't take the trash out would be what kind of reinforcement/punishment? 

What is positive punishment? 

500

Who claimed that adult or peer intervention was a much more important part of the developmental process?

Who is Vygotsky?

500

What is big storage for information that lasts a while?

What is long term memory?

500

At what age do children start to play simple make believe games?

What is 2 years/24 months?

500

What age do children start to use simple gestures? 

What is 12-18 months?

500

Who believed that most of our fears and other emotional responses are classically conditioned?

Who is Watson?

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