The scientist who observed that children develop cognitively at different levels or stages.
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
The individual's knowledge and beliefs about themselves- their ideas, feelings, attitudes and expectations.
What is self-concept?
100
This approach takes into consideration all aspects of individual ways of learning.
What is brain-based learning?
100
People or animals studied
What are Participants or subjects?
100
The thinking process involved in judgments about questions of right and wrong.
What is Moral Reasoning?
200
Mental systems or categories of perception and experience.
What are schemas?
200
Uncenteredness; confusion about who one is and what one wants.
What is Identity Diffusion?
200
Enriched active environments and flexible instructional strategies.
What are instructional strategies that promote cogitive development?
200
Systematic observations or tests of methods conducted by teachers or schools to improve teaching and learning for their students.
What is action research?
200
The nested social and cultural contexts that shape development.
What is Bronfenbrenner's theory of the Bioecological model?
300
The "out-of-balance" state that occurs when a person realizes that his or her current ways of thinking are not working to solve a problem or understand a situation.
What is disequilibrium?
300
Describing the relation of the individual's emotional needs to the social environment.
What is Psychosocial theory?
300
The brain's tendency to remain somewhat adaptable or flexible.
What is brain plasticity?
300
The discipline concerned with teaching and learning processes; applies the methods and theories of pschology and has its own as well.
What is Edcational Psychology?
300
The woman who challenged Kohlberg's theory because females tend to get"stuck" at a certain stage.
Who is Carol Gilligan?
400
Emphasizes role in development of cooperative dialogues between chidren and more knowledgeable members of society. Children learn the culture of their community(ways of thinking and behaving) through these interactions.
What is sociocultural theory?
400
Acceptance of parental life choices because without consideration of options.
What is Identity Foreclosure?
400
Some researchers have described this as a jungle of layers and loops, an interconnected and complex organic system.
What is the brain?
400
Statistical descriptions of how closely two variables are related.
What are correlations?
400
Judgment is based on personal needs and others' rules.
What is Preconventional Moral Reasoning?
500
Phase at which a child can master a task if given appropriate help and support( usually hands-on tools).
What is Zone of Proximal development?
500
The man who created emotional development into 8 stages of man.
Who is Erik Erikson?
500
Stimulation is necessary for brain development, but this can have an extremely negative effect on the brain.
What is deprivation?
500
Not likely to be a chance occurrence.
What is statistically significant?
500
Judgment is based on others' approval, family expectations, traditional values,the laws of society and loyalty to country.