Piaget
Knowing that the amount of a given substance remains identical despite changes in its shape or form.
Conservation
Average number of morphemes per sentence.
Mean length of utterance (MLU)
Collaborative pretend play and fantasizing together with another child
Fantasy play
Aggressive behavior carried out via electronic communication or social media
Cyberbullying
Emphasize hard work over basic ability
The 4 Piaget stages in order
Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational
Common language mistake in which the child uses the term too broadly (e.g., horsey)
Overextension
The developmental term for the type of play that involves excited shoving, running, and wrestling
Rough-and-tumble
Hurtful behavior that we initiate to achieve a goal
Proactive aggression
A self-esteem distortion in which people deny reality and impulsively blame other people to preserve their unrealistically high feelings of self-worth
Externalizing tendencies
Trouble understanding which things are alive
Animism
Common language mistake involving errors in plurals or past tenses in exception cases
Overregularization
Rejected children are most likely to possess one of two qualities
Socially anxious
Reactive aggressive
2 FORMS of aggression
Direct and Relational
A self-esteem distortion in which intense anxiety may cause them to read failure into benign events, which continues to reinforce their low self-esteem and may lead to learned helplessness
Internalizing tendencies
Jacob is talking to his father on the telephone and tries to show him his new drawing. Isaac's belief that his father can see the drawing through the phone demonstrates:
Egocentrism
Vygotsky term for self directed speech molded from outside sources (thinking)
Inner speech
In as early as third grade, we see popularity increase, more prominently in girls, as what trait increases
Relational aggression
A hypothesis that says when we are being attacked, we are biologically primed to strike back
Frustration–aggression hypothesis
5 areas of self-esteem
Scholastic competence (academic talents)
Behavioral conduct (obedience or being “good”)
Athletic skills (performance at sports)
Peer likeability (popularity)
Physical appearance (looks)