The Basics
What is a set of ideas used to explain and predict behavior?
A theory
Theorist who said people are smart in different ways
Howard Gardner
What is increasing behavior using rewards or consequences?
Who believed that kids learn best by doing?
Piaget
Who believed children learn best through social interaction?
Vygotsky
What life stage is most important for brain development?
Early Childhood
Which intelligence is being "word smart"
Linguistic Intelligence
What is it called when you want to see a decrease in a behavior?
Punishment
mental folders in the brain are called what?
Schemas
Help given to support learning
Scaffolding
Development builds on this
Early learning
Which intelligence is called Body Smart?
Bodily-kinesthetic
Giving something to increase behavior
Positive Reinforcement
Fitting new info into what you already know?
Assimilation
Tasks too hard alone but possible with help
zone of proximal development
Development happens at this rate for each child?
Individual rate
Which intelligence involves understanding others?
Taking away something to increase behavior
Negative Reinforcement
Changing what you know to fit new information
Accommodation
Erikson believed that development happens across this?
The lifespan
Development continues throuhgout this?
The lifespan
Name all 8 intelligences
What is the name of Skinner's theory?
Operant Conditioning
Stage from birth-2
Sensorimotor
First stage of Erikson's theory?
Trust vs Mistrust