Stage where children can conserve and reason logically but struggle with hypotheticals.
What is concrete operational?
Range of tasks a learner can do with guidance but not yet alone.
What is Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)?
The “music” of speech—melody, intonation, timing.
What is prosody?
A type of goal that is focused on learning and improvement.
What are mastery goals?
A belief some adolescents hold that their experiences are unique and that others can't understand what they're going through
What is Personal Fable?
Ordering objects by a quantitative dimension
What is seriation?
Knowledge about how memory works and how to use strategies effectively.
What is metamemory?
Single-word utterance used as a whole sentence
What is a holophrase?
The key motivation for someone with a strong sense of performance goals is to
What is
- Being seen as smart/competent?
- Getting good results (grades, etc.)?
A full complex language with grammar created by children exposed to pidgin
What is a Creole?
The child thinks others see the world exactly as they do
What is egocentrism?
The 4 main circles within Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory
What is microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem?
The error shown in “mouses” or “goed.”
What is overregularization?
Attributing failure to internal, stable, uncontrollable causes leads to this pattern.
What is Learned Helplessness?
The average number of words acquired by an infant when they are 24 months old
What is 200-300 words?
These are two stages that precede object permanence during the sensorimotor stage
What are 1. Out-of-sight, out-of-mind 2. A-not-B error
Support that’s gradually removed as competence increases.
What is scaffolding?
Quick inference of a word’s meaning after minimal exposure.
What is fast-mapping?
This psychologist coined the term "Effectance motivation"
Who is Robert White?
a hypothetical mental faculty, proposed by Noam Chomsky, that suggests humans are born with an innate ability to learn language.
What is Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
The cognitive process of logically deducing an unknown relationship between two items based on their known relationships with a third item.
What is Transitive Inference?
The three broad stages of Perry's model of adult cognitive development
What is Dualism, Multiplicity, and Commitment in Relativism
The makeshift combination of two languages, with little to no grammar, used for communication between people typically for practical tasks.
What is Pidgin?
According to attribution theory, people's explanations for success and failure generally vary along three dimensions:
What is Locus, Stability, Controllability?
To indicate intellectual disability, an IQ score must be approximately ___ or below.
What is 70?