Theories
Research
Theorists
Vocabulary
Misc
100
They believe that mental growth is most important to child development.
What is Cognitive Developmental Theory
100
Informal research conducted by teachers and caregivers to answer questions related to teaching, learning, and childrens development.
What is action research?
100
Theorized that learning is contruscted through the actions of the learner; constructivism.
Who is Piaget?
100
A dispostion that is characterized by harsh and negative reactions to new or frustrating situations, irregular patterns of sleeping or eating, and numerous adjustment problems.
What is difficult temperament?
100
Mental development including problem solving and the acquistion of knowledge.
What is cognitive development?
200
This theory assumes that emotional development stems from an ability to resolve key conflicts between desires and impulses and pressures from the outside world.
What is Psycholanlytic theory?
200
Research methods in which children are observed and their behaviors counted or rated numerically.
What is quantitative research?
200
Develop stages of social emotional development.
Who is Eric Erikson?
200
A strategy for shaping behavior in which a neutral stimulus is paired with a pleasurable one.
What is classical condtioning?
200
Piagets stage of cognitive development that encompasses infancy, in which thinking is limited to using physical action and the senses to know about things.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
300
This theory assumes that human traits are determined primarily by genetics. Children simply mature with age and environment plays a minor role.
What is Maturationist Theory?
300
A classroom observation system in which a teacher or caregiver rates childrens attainment of certain developmental milestones.
What is a developmental checklist?
300
Defined the zone of proximal development.
Who is Vygotsky?
300
A form of training in which a desired behavior is immedialty rewarded.
What is operant conditioning?
300
The stage of cognitive development that encompasses early childhood, in which children use internal thought, including symbols, but still rely on perception and physical cues in the environment for learning.
What is preoperational development?
400
The theory that development is influenced by the personal, social and political systems within which children live.
What is the Ecological Systems theory?
400
Research in which a group of children is studied over a long period of time to observe changes in behavior and development at various ages.
What is a longitudnal study?
400
Identified developmental milestones
Who is Gesell?
400
A term for a learning process in which humans integrate new ideas or information into what they already know about;
What is assimilation?
400
The stage of cognitive development that encompasses the elementary years, in which thinking becomes more abstract and in which children still need the support of concrete objects in order to learn.
What is concrete operational development?
500
The theory that assumes adults and peers can scaffold children's learning by asking questions or challanging thinking.
What is sociocultural theory?
500
Research in which a treatment, such as an educational intervention, is administered to subjects. There is an experimental group, which recieves the treatment, and a control group, which does not. The outcomes of the two groups are compared.
What is experimental study?
500
Formulated the social learning theory; that behaviors are modeled by adults and children imitate them.
Who is Bandura?
500
A term for a learning process in which humans modify what they already know to make room for new ideas or information.
What is accomodation?
500
The ability to understand social situations, including skill at recognizing the outcomes of one's own behaviors and the actions and motives of others.
What is social cognition?
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