Learning Theories
Learning is a social process aided by more knowledgeable others.
About ten minutes.
What is the amount of time early learners can focus?
Controlling our own emotions.
What is Emotional Self Regulation?
In middle childhood this looks like: balance improves, coordination advances, kids develop greater agility and faster reaction time.
The developmental psychologist who proposed constructivism.
Who is Piaget?
The mind is a human computer; learning is information processing.
What is cognitivism?
A preschool teaching model devised based on constructivist learning theory and understandings of early childhood development.
What is Montessori?
Cultural expectations for appearance and behavior specific to males or females.
What are gender roles?
A diagnosis which includes problems of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
ADHD or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Parents, teachers, grandparents, and siblings are examples of people in this level of Bronfenbrenner's Socioecological system.
What is the Microsystem?
The space between what a learner can do on their own and what they can do with help - this is the sweet spot for learning!
What is the zone of proximal development or ZPD
The ability to attribute mental states to self and others and to understand that others have beliefs, intentions, and perspectives that are different from one’s own.
Theory of Mind
This becomes more complex in the course of early childhood, as children’s imaginations bloom and they become more creative and adept at using symbols; for example, using a stick to represent a sword and a blanket over two chairs to represent a castle.
What is Cooperative Pretend Play?
Cognitive structures pertaining to common activities.
What are cultural models?
The psychologist who proposed a sociocultural theory of learning.
Who is Vygotsky?
Active learning - learners are little scientists who learn by doing.
What is constructivism?
The inability to distinguish between your own perspective and another person’s perspective.
What is egocentrism?
The process by which children acquire the behaviors and beliefs of the culture they live in
What is Socialization?
Mental processes including inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility.
What is Executive Function?
Piaget's stages of development for early childhood and middle childhood.
What are pre-operational and concrete operational?
The understanding that learning happens through mind-body environmental interaction.
The social and cultural context and conventions of language.
When children focus their attention on managing their emotions.
What is Effortful Control?
Memory strategies such as rehearsal, organization, and elaboration.
What are Mnemonics?
A Cognitive Super Power that supports better metalinguistic skills, focus and switching strategies.
What is Multilingualism?