Educ. Perspective & Research
Brain & Language
Piaget vs Vygotsky
Styles & Stages
Intelligence
100
This is the variable that is manipulated when conducting experimental research.
What is the INDEPENDENT variable?
100
These are tiny gaps between neurons where connections between the neurons are made...
What are SYNAPSES?
100
This is the range of tasks too difficult for children to master alone, but can be learned with assistance.
What is (ZPD) ZONE OF PROXIMO DEVELOPMENT?
100
According to Erikson, this is the 1st stage of psychosocial, lifespan development.
What is TRUST VS MISTRUST?
100
Creative, analytic & practical are part of this theorist's triangular theory of intelligence.
Who is STERNBERG?
200
The more I brush my teeth, the less cavities I have. This example is this kind of a correlation.
What is NEGATIVE?
200
According to Piaget, this concept or script exists in a person's mind to arrange and interpret information.
What is a SCHEMA?
200
According to Piaget, children birth to 2 years of age are in this stage of cognitive development.
What is SENSORIMOTOR development?
200
This theorist created stages of moral development based on WHY one answers a moral dilemma as he or she does.
Who is KOHLBERG?
200
On a normal distribution of scores, this range indicates "AVERAGE" IQ.
What is 85-15?
300
This teaching approach includes students exploring, building and manipulating materials to discover learning opportunities.
What is CONSTRUCTIVIST?
300
These are the smallest units of MEANING in a language.
What are MORPHEMES?
300
Louis gets a brand new soccer ball for his birthday. He doesn't try to kick it though, instead he is trying to dribble it the way he does with his basketball. This is Piaget's concept...
What is ASSIMILATION?
300
Parenting with high amounts of love and responsiveness with low amounts of control or demands = this style.
What is PERMISSIVE OR INDULGENT?
300
This is William Stern's formula for calculating IQ (intelligence quotients).
What is MA/CA X 100 ?
400
This type of instruction requires the teacher to tailor learning materials to meet individual needs and abilities...
What is DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION?
400
These are the smallest units of SOUND in a language.
What are PHONEMES?
400
Piaget says, young egocentric children often don't understand how one thing can also be another... (Example, my mom is my daughter's grandma). This is due to restriction in ability to ____.
What is CLASSIFY or CLASSIFICATION?
400
A child with this temperament pattern usually has positive mood and adapts easily to new situations.
What is EASY?
400
In 1905, his IQ test scale was developed to identify children in the regular classroom who were unable to learn.
Who is BINET?
500
When a child is strong in most areas but very weak in one, OR Weak or average in most areas but strong in one, we call this _____ development.
What is SPLINTERED development?
500
"The doggie eated his bone." The child saying this _____ the grammatical rules.
What is OVERGENERALIZED? (or Overgeneralization)
500
When preoperational children center on the most obvious characteristic or don't grasp transformation of shape, size or amount, they do not have a firm grasp of this law.
What is LAW OF CONSERVATION?
500
Tony isn't actively disliked, he just isn't chosen much by his peers to work or play with. Tony is classified as this style of child...
What is NEGLECTED?
500
If Tommy is quite skilled at designing and building models in his engineering class, Gardner would say he is gifted in this intelligence.
What is SPATIAL ?