Language
The 5 main parts of language include phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and?
What is pragmatics?
This psychologist developed the first widely used IQ test for children, the Stanford-Binet.
Who is Alfred Binet?
According to this child psychologist, children build knowledge through assimilation and accommodation.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The inability of preoperational children to take another person’s perspective is called this.
What is egocentrism?
Groups that interact regularly and provide each other with a sense of belonging.
What is a peer group?
This linguist proposed the idea of universal grammar, an innate biological mechanism for language learning.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
The data from a standardized IQ test visually looks like what kind of statistical distribution?
What is a bell curve/normal distribution?
This theorist proposed psychosocial stages, such as identity vs. role confusion in adolescence.
Who is Erik Erikson?
In this early childhood milestone, children begin to understand that others have different beliefs, perspectives, and knowledge.
What is theory of mind?
The most abundant type of interaction among preschoolers. Benefits physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development.
What play?
This Vygotskian concept refers to the temporary support provided by a more knowledgeable other that helps a child perform a task they cannot yet do alone.
What is scaffolding?
This concept, emphasized by Sternberg, includes skills like problem-solving in everyday situations.
What is practical intelligence?
Albert Bandura conducted what study to demonstrate that children learn through imitation and modeling?
What is the Bobo doll study?
Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development (birth–2 years), when infants learn through senses and actions.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
Interact frequently, smaller than peer groups, don't provide as powerful a sense of belonging.
What is a clique?
This term describes a child’s tendency to use a word too broadly, like calling all four-legged animals “dog.”
What is overextension?
These are the two types of intelligence described by Cattell—one involving reasoning ability and the other accumulated knowledge.
What are fluid and crystallized intelligence?
This attachment researcher identified secure, avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, and disorganized attachment styles.
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
This process describes adjusting existing schemas when new information doesn’t fit.
What is accommodation?
One reason that preschoolers become popular among their peers.
What is better communication skills?
This hypothesis argues that the language you speak influences how you think.
What is the linguistic relativity (Sapir-Whorf) hypothesis?
Howard Gardner proposed this theory that includes musical, interpersonal, and bodily-kinesthetic forms of intelligence.
What is Multiple Intelligences theory?
According to Vygotsky, _____ is the distance between the actual developmental level and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
Piaget’s task in which children understand that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape or appearance.
What is conservation?
Sociometric techniques categorize children into groups. This group of children liked by many and disliked by many.
What controversial children?