Brain Words
As this increases in the brain, neural pathways get more connected and cognitive and motor skills both increase.
What is myelination?
A slower growth rate in the preschool years can lead to this change, often of concern to parents but not to pediatricians
What is a decrease in appetite and/or food intake?
Centration and egocentric thinking are highlights of this stage by this theorist.
What is Piaget's Preoperational stage?
What children are using when they talk to them selves as they are working on a drawing or homework activity.
What is private speech?
2 types of play that children engage in.
What are functional, constructive, parallel, cooperative, associative, observer play?
Any 2
The bundle of nerve fibers that connect the left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus collosum?
This is a greater threat to the well being of a 2 to 5 year old than either illness or psychological disorders.
What are accidental injuries?
In this stage, from this theorist, children work hard to learn skills and be productive both in academic and athletic areas.
What is Erikson's Industry vs. Inferiority Stage?
A child who immigrates with his family to a new country and learns a new language, reaching fluency in speech, reading and writing, has this ability.
What is bilingualism?
The theorist that focuses especially on learning that happens through social interaction like mentoring, guided participation, and scaffolding.
Who is Vygotsky?
The hemisphere that usually specializes in spatial relationships, nonverbal abilities, music, art, and emotional expression.
What is the right hemisphere?
This sedentary activity is a threat to children in middle childhood because it is highly correlated to obesity.
What is TV watching and/or video game playing?
The ability to use symbols, when an object or a word can stand for something else, in play and language, is noted by both of these theorists.
Who are Piaget and Greenspan?
These 2 opposite methods of teaching reading have been used in the public schools, both have their proponents and critics.
What are code-based and whole language methods?
Children learn this by watching how men and women function in their society.
What is gender related behavior?
The hemisphere that concentrates on tasks that necessitate verbal competence.
What is the left hemishpere?
Of the 2 types of motor activity, this one develops first.
What is gross motor activity?
A preschooler whose parent lets her make choices about food, clothes, or activities is helping her develop this ability, part of this theorist's stage during the preschool years.
What is initiative, from Erikson's initiative vs. guilt stage?
When a child in the elementary school years develops this ability, she has an awareness of how she is using language, and this leads to more strategies to learn and retain information.
What is metalinguistic awareness?
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What is metamemory?
Children who are good at social problem solving and have lots of friends tend to be categorized as this during elementary school years and beyond.
What is popular?
The term that describes the ability of the brain to recover from an injury in the early years as other areas take over functions originally located in the injured part?
What is plasticity?
This fine motor skill develops only after muscle development increases in the hands and fingers as well as more sophisticated vision abilities as a child reaches school age.
What is writing?
The stage that teenagers are at, when they try out different roles and relationships according to this theorist.
What is Erikson's identity vs. role confusion stage?
2 Benefits of growing up using more than 1 language in daily life.
What are increased brain development, more flexible problem solving, better reading comprehension, better understanding of others from diverse backgrounds.
Any 2
In middle childhood, children want to know how they rate next to others in many areas, and increasingly they engage in this, basing their self esteem on what they learn.
What is social comparison?