Cognitive Development
The 4 elementary functions that children are born with.
What are attention, sensation, perception, and memory?
Who does a person look to when seeking to take their learning past their current cognitive ability?
The sweet spot of development which encompasses all you can do with a bit of help from an MKO.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
Building new skills on a foundation of skills already acquired.
What is scaffolding?
Lev Vygotsky's homeland.
What is Russia?
These become increasingly independent in the first few years of life.
What are thought and language?
These conversation types convey to the learner acceptable cultural interpretations of the world.
What are formal and informal?
In order to determine the level of potential development, one should first evaluate these.
What are tasks that the learner can do without assistance and those that require minimal help?
To be effective, scaffolding should be this.
What is interactive?
This was Vygotsky's area of primary post-secondary study.
What is law?
This allows children to examine, explore and confirm real-life theories and roles that they would otherwise be unable to do.
What is play?
These begin as social activities.
What are complex mental processes?
Challenging tasks provide this.
This involves a group of two or more working together to apply their existing knowledge to solving a problem.
What is reciprocal scaffolding?
This is the topic of Vygotsky's first research dissertation in 1925.
What is the psychology of art?