Theorists
This person felt that Erikson's view of identity development and Kohlberg's view of moral development described males only and did not include adolescent females.
Who is Carol Gilligan?
This theory includes stages such as sensorimotor and preoperational.
What is the theory of intellectual or cognitive development?
Helping students solve problems or think through a question by giving subtle hints or asking a supporting questions is an example of this.
To change an existing scheme to incorporate a new experience.
What is accomodation?
This person's theory includes stages such as concrete and formal operational.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This theory maintains that how we think is a function of social AND cultural forces.
What is the theory of cognitive development OR sociocultural theory?
The difference between what a child can do on her own and what she can do with support from an adult is called this.
What is the zone of proximal development?
The tendency to adjust to the environment.
What is adaptation?
His theory includes the ZPD.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This theory includes stages such as industry vs. inferiority.
What is the psychosocial development theory?
Creating new knowledge from existing information is known as this.
What is constructivism?
The tendency to focus attention on only one characteristic of an object.
What is perceptual centration?
This person's theory holds that people plan an active role in their own psychological development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
This theory holds that as children's ability to understand the world increases, their judgments about what is considered to be acceptable moral behavior becomes more abstract.
What is the theory of moral development?
A mom allows her two- year-old to pour his own juice, even though he is highly likely to spill it. The mom is helping the child to develop this.
What is autonomy?
The moral thinking of children eleven or older.
What is the morality of cooperation?