When a baby comes to realize that something exists even when he can't see it.
What is object permanence?
100
Who said this? "I believe, finally, that the teacher is engaged, not simply in the training of individuals, but in the formation of the proper social life."
Who is John Dewey.
100
These two components help information to transfer to long term memory.
What are sense and meaning?
100
The continuous reprocessing of information.
What is rehearsal?
100
The ability to take what one has learned and apply it to a new situation or learning experience.
What is transfer?
200
A motivational theory for psychology that states that people aim to meet their needs in the form of a hierarchy.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
200
When these needs are unmet an individual is unable to focus on higher levels in the hierarchy.
What are safety and security needs?
200
This type of rehearsal is used to associate the new learnings with prior learnings to detect relationships. It is a more complex thinking process and involves deeper understanding.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
200
Information is held here for less than a second.
What is the sensory register.
200
These thinking skills are important to remember and include when writing objectives for students.
What are Bloom's Taxonomy?
300
The term used to describe the distance between the most difficult task a child can do alone and the most difficult task a child can do with help.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
300
A word used to describe the support that is given to students from the teacher or peer.
What is scaffolding?
300
In regards to when learning material should be presented, new skills or material should be taught during this time.
What is prime time 1?
300
The ability of the brain to continually change throughout our lifetime as a result of experience.
What is plasticity?
300
The awareness of one's own thinking processes. We should encourage this type of awareness so that students can monitor their progress while learning and make appropriate changes when problems may occur during their learning.
What is metacognition?
400
This theorist believed that the more teachers manage children, the harder the job will be. This theorist also believed that children who are not allowed to do something for themselves do not learn how to do it.
Who is Maria Montessori?
400
These stages can be referred to as "windows of opportunity, or developmental timetables."
What are Erickson's stages of Psychosocial Development?
400
The ability of the brain to perceive a coherent group of items as a single item. This is a teaching strategy we can use when learning a complicated procedure. It is a very effective way of expanding working memory's capacity.
What is chunking?
400
Two main areas of the brain that are responsible for long-term storage.
What are the amygdala and the hippocampus?
400
The top three levels (the most complex) of Bloom's Taxonomy.
What are Analyze, Evaluate, and Create?
500
He believed that children construct their own knowledge and that they learn best when they are doing the work themselves and creating their own understanding.
Who is Jean Piaget?
500
It is important to encourage children to be independent and focus the curriculum on real things during this stage. It is also important to focus on students gains and not their mistakes in an effort to increase their confidence.
What is Initiative vs. Guilt?
500
These are stored in various parts of the brain and are distributed throughout the cerebrum.
What are memories?
500
These can enhance memory by causing the release of hormones that stimulate the amygdala to signal brain regions to strengthen memory. Negative ones can also shut down processing.
What are emotions?
500
A verbal scaffold that can be used with English language learners.