This man believed that humans learn language because of an innate Learning Acquisition Device, also called Universal Grammar.
Who is Chomsky
100
The study of knowledge
Epistemology
200
The type of adaption in which an organism modifies schemes based on new experience
What is accommodation
200
Pointing to request an object
imperative
200
The way words are combined to make meaningful sentences
Syntax
200
Private speech
Who is Vygotsky
200
This aspects of grammar consists of language in use, in everyday conversations.
What is pragmatics
300
An imbalance between activities and environmental effects, or among organism’s own schemes
What is disequilibrium
300
This man tried to explain language in terms of behaviorist learning principles (i.e. imitation and reinforcement)
Who is Skinner (1957)
300
Type of help that is changed as the child improves, I.e., is tailored to the child’s needs.
What is scaffolding
400
In this stage, children can understand that certain properties of an object can remain the same while others change.
What is Concrete Operational
400
This term is used for mistakes made when over extending a rule
What is Overregularization
400
Sociogenesis
What is the social origins of mental functions (Vygotsky)
400
This family of theories is based on the metaphor of the mind as a computer
What is information processing
500
“Each function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first between people and then inside the child.”
Who is Vyogostky
500
This term was coined to show the inconsistency in a particular stage of reasoning