Cognitive Development
This is the term for the way brains continue to change across lifetimes, allowing us to learn new skills at any time.
What is neuroplasticity?
This term refers to the space in which people are flexible, adaptive, coherent, energized, and stable. It is smaller for people with trauma.
What is the window of tolerance?
Immordino-Yang is an affective neuroscientist. This means she is a leading expert in what?
What is the role of emotions on learning?
This psychologist developed the theories of operant and classical conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This is the name of the idea that trauma can be carry genetically from generation to generation--so later generations who did not experience trauma may still have trauma responses.
What is epigentics?
This theorist believed that learning happens as a result of your environment (people and things) bringing new concepts within to your Zone of Proximal Development.
Who was Vygotsky?
This symptom of trauma is characterized by demonstrating two very contrary patterns of behavior (like overly physically affectionate with strangers and unwilling to be close with partners or family).
What is disorganized attachment?
This is the name of the state we are in at rest, when our best thinking happens and we are not taking in external stimuli.
What is Default Mode or DM?
When a teacher gives her students pizza as a reward for a great semester, this is an example of what principle of conditioning?
What is positive reinforcement?
This is the name for the kind of trauma that is ongoing and impacts the nervous system, even though the survivor may not even be aware they are experiencing trauma.
What is little t trauma?
This stage of a Piaget child development theory typically occurs between birth and 2 years and describes the way youngest children use their mouths and hands to learn about the world around them.
What is sensorimotor?
This phase of Erikson's theory is the reason it is so important to give students jobs in elementary school (line leader, board eraser, etc.).
What is industry vs. inferiority?
This is the area of the brain that processes emotional thought that is often impaired in people with spectrum disorders and helps us apply what we have learned.
What is the prefrontal cortex
The four elements of the expectancy value theory are....
What are mood/health, identity (attainment value), goal orientation, and efficacy?
After a teacher or leader offers information or instructions, it is a best practice to ask for a physical cue (like a thumbs up or down) or restatement (volunteer restates the idea in their own words) from the team to see who got it. This is called...
What is a Check For Understanding or CFU?
This is the most prevalent criticism of Piaget's stage theory of children's cognitive development.
What is children can learn some skills more quickly if they are specifically taught OR children learn different skills at different times depending on their culture.
This stage of Erikson's theory of social development is the one that all of you are likely in.
What is intimacy vs isolation?
The nervous system engages when a threat is perceived, and this creates the production of adrenaline. The overproduction of this "fight or flight" response can cause this part of your brain to be physically and literally abnormally large (it is smaller in people who regularly meditate/pray).
What is the amygdala?
These are the two places someone's locus of control could be centered.
What is external and internal?
This cultural frame dominates developmental psychology and as a result, suggests some things are "typical" that actually can't be applied to children developing in cultures that represent 88% of the globe.
What is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic?
Children can more easily learn anything, until their exposure to something is deprioritized or omitted. Rather than growing new parts of our brain, we actually deepen connections that allow other capacities to fall away.
What is neuropruning?
This psychologist developed a theory of moral development that organized how children's understanding of ethical situations into stages.
Who was Kohlberg?
This area of the brain, above the right ear, is responsible for the human capacity to think what others are thinking.
What is the RTPJ or Right Temporo Parietal Junction?
A team leader encourages his team to engage in a challenging task by creating swag, t-shirts, and lots of hype around being on the team. What motivational theory is he using? Hint: it's not conditioning.
What is attainment theory? Or what is identity?
This theory of learning considers the intrinsic load, extraneous load, and germane load as a ratio to understand how hard something is to learn.
What is "Cognitive Load Theory"?