Information Processing and Theories of Intelligence
Learning Theories
Language Development
100
This theory focuses on development of how children perceive and mentally represent the world.
What is Cognitive Development?
100
This theory states that culture is the prime determinant of Cognitive Development.
What is Socio-Cultural Theory?
100
Gardner proposed this theory that there are many intelligences and each has it's neurological basis in different parts of the brain.
What is the Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
100
This theorist is responsible for introducing Operant Conditioning to Learning Theory.
What is Skinner?
100
This speech is slower, high-pitched, exaggerated, and involves asking more questions.
What is Child-Directed Speech, or Motherese?
200
In this stage of Cognitive Development, a child is egocentric and also has not yet obtained Reversability.
What is Preoperational Stage?
200
This area lies in between the level of independent performance and the area of assisted performance (zone).
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
200
This is a memory strategy that involves repeating information until it is remembered.
What is Rehearsal?
200
This theorist discovered the principle of classical conditioning while studying digestion processes in animals.
What is Pavlov?
200
This type of speech involves brief expressions that have the same meanings as complete sentences.
What is Telegraphic Speech?
300
From the Sensorimotor Stage, this second sub-stage states that infants from 1-4 months focus on their own body rather than external stimuli.
What is Primary Circular Reactions?
300
This term refers to intellectual growth is stimulated and directed by older and more skiled people.
What are Apprentice in Thinking?
300
Atkinson and Shiffrin proposed that human memory has these three stages.
What is Sensory, Short-Term and Long-Term?
300
This is the name of Watson’s theory in which he paired with the theory of classical conditioning.
What is Conditioned Emotional Response?
300
This theorist has a nativist perspective on language development.
What is Noam Chompsky?
400
This term refers to a child's ability to take into account multiple aspects of a problem in order to solve it.
What is Decentration?
400
This process involves the child with mentors to learn to think by having social experiences and exploration.
What is Guided Participation?
400
These terms, introduced by Spearman and Thurstone, describe intelligence as broad reasoning and problem solving (Spearman) and specific independent factors (Thurstone).
What is Factor G and Factor S?
400
Name two of the three key elements in Skinner’s theory of Operant Conditioning
What is Reinforcement, Punishment, and Extinction?
400
This area, located in the left frontal lobe, directs patterns of muscle movements necessary for producing speech.
What is Broca's Area?
500
These are the four stages of Piaget's theory.
What is Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational?
500
This acronym is a teaching method that involves grouping children together with different ability levels to help each other.
What is HOME?
500
These 3 types of intelligence make up Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.
What is Analytical, Creative and Practical?
500
Albert Bandura’s social learning involves this 4-step model of imitation.
What is:
1.Attention
2.Memory
3.Reproduction
4.Motivation
?
500
Name two of the three features involved in language.
What is Semanticity, Production, and Quality of Displacement?