Chapter 6
Infants' brains are very this, meaning it is easy for them to change based on experience.
What is plastic?
Vygotsky calls this the range where students can learn with proper support.
What is the zone of proximal development?
Extrinsic motivation comes from this type of motivators.
What are external motivators?
Using tone to exaggerate language when talking to babies is called this.
What is child-directed speech (or “motherese”)?
The way we respond to experiences is called this.
What is temperament?
This one of the five senses is pretty much fully developed at birth.
What is hearing?
Thinking about your own thinking is called this.
What is metacognition?
The idea that intelligence can be changed with work and effort is called this.
What is a growth mindset?
This theory believes that interaction with others helps children learn language.
What is Social Cognitive Theory?
This type of attachment is linked to infant abuse and/or neglect.
What is disorganized attachment?
The brain gets to 80% of its total size by age 3, which is called this.
What is the brain growth spurt?
A child’s belief that everyone sees the world in the same way they do is called this.
What is egocentrism?
This test was developed in France to help test a student’s mental age to identify learners who needed more support.
What is the Binet-Simon test?
Chomsky’s idea that language is biologically built into the brain with a Language Acquisition Device is called this.
What is nativism?
For a child with this temperament, new experiences may be scary, but become more comfortable with repeated exposure.
What is slow-to-warm temperament?
The cerebellum is responsible for this.
What is balance and movement?
The belief that one’s experiences are unique to them and no one else can understand them is called this.
What is the personal fable?
This type of intelligence is characterized by problem-solving new ideas without prior knowledge.
What is fluid intelligence?
The meaning of words is called this.
What are semantics?
These kinds of emotions, such as shame and guilt, develop after a child has awareness of themselves and their actions.
What are self-conscious emotions?
When neural connections are not used, they are removed through a process called this.
What is synaptic pruning?
Piaget believed in this concept, which says that children actively create their own knowledge about the world.
What is individual constructivism?
In Sternburg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence, this type of intelligence is used to generate new ideas and respond to novelty.
What is creative/experimental intelligence?
This part of the brain, found near the forehead, is responsible for speech production.
What is Broca’s area?
Attachment is generally made in this period of time in an infant's life.
What is 6 weeks to 6 months old?