Piaget
Achievement/Social
Intelligence
Language Development
Misc.
100
1. Jenny says, "Look! A giant dog!" when looking at a horse. She is trying to fit the new experience into existing mental schemas. 2. When Jenny's dad explains that the "giant dog" is a horse, Jenny must create a new mental schema.
1. What is assimilation? 2. What is accommodation?
100
_______ represents extreme difficulty in reading despite average intelligence.
What is dyslexia?
100
______ is the general ability underlying multiple aspects of intelligence—inherited and represented by IQ score.
g (general intelligence)
100
____________ involves producing syllables made up of a consonant followed by a vowel that are repeated in strings. (Hint: these are produced during the early phases of language development)
What is Babbling?
100
When Anna builds a snowman, she says the steps out loud to guide her actions. As she gets better at building snowmen, she will think the steps instead of saying them.
What is private speech?
200
1. Harry is going to get an invisibility cloak for his aunt for her birthday. However, she hates magical objects, but he loves them. He is demonstrating an inability to understand her perspective. 2. Ron has to wear old, ugly robes to the Yuletide Ball. He refuses to go because he thinks everyone will look at him. Ron is demonstrating the _____________?
1. What is egocentrism? 2. What is imaginary audience?
200
_______________ is the ability to identify component sounds within words.
Phonemic Awareness
200
1. _________ allows us to quickly and effectively solve novel problems for which we have little training. 2. __________ is a measure of the knowledge we already have that we can draw on to solve problems.
1. What is fluid intelligence 2. What is crystallized intelligence?
200
If a child adds an "s" to make the plural of an irregular noun such as "foot", which type of grammatical error are they making?
What is Overregularization?
200
This is an element of information processing theory and involves actively attending to, gathering, maintaining, storing, and processing information. It is limited in capacity and in the length of time it can retain information without updating activities.
What is Working Memory?
300
1. In the Preoperational Stage, children have difficulty understanding that a quantity of something remains the same, regardless of changes in appearance. 2. In the Preoperational Stage, children only focus on one aspect of a situation.
1. What is conservation? 2. What is centration?
300
As Abbie reads, she closely monitors her understanding and rereads passages she does not understand. This is an example of ____________.
What is comprehension monitoring?
300
Intelligence is a polygenic trait meaning that many genes work together in combination to produce the trait. When you have many traits working together, there is a wide range of potential outcomes, which is known as a ___________.
What is range of reaction?
300
________ is the process of rapidly learning a new word simply from hearing the contrastive use of a a familiar and unfamiliar word.
What is fast mapping?
300
Sam repeats Piaget's stages over and over in order to remember them for her upcoming exam. This is an example of _______.
What is rehearsal?
400
1. Princess Kate hides her baby's toy under a blanket. He no longer thinks the toy exists. He has yet to develop this skill, which develops in the Sensorimotor Stage. 2. A young child observes her mother putting lipstick on in the morning. The next day, the child takes her mothers lipstick and attempts to apply it just like her mom. This represents __________.
1. What is object permanence? 2. What is deferred imitation?
400
1. ________ involves observing someone else receive a reward or punishment. (Example: The Bobo doll experiment) 2. Bandura emphasized the importance of __________, or one's beliefs about how effectively they can control their own behavior, thoughts, and emotions in order to achieve a desired goal.
1. What is vicarious reinforcement? 2. What is self-efficacy?
400
The Flynn Effect, defined.
What is the increase in intelligence test scores that has occurred over time?
400
In this type of fast mapping, children use knowledge they have in one domain of language to help them learn another domain and use context clues to infer meaning of words.
What is bootstrapping?
400
________ consists of the knowledge that people accumulate over their lifetime.
What is long-term memory?
500
Tricked you! This isn't Piaget! 1. The is the difference between what the person can do and what a person could do with some help. 2. The idea that more knowledgeable people support another person's learning by providing help to move the person beyond their current level of ability.
1. What is zone of proximal development (ZPD)? 2. What is scaffolding?
500
The part of brain organization that coordinates memory and attention and controls behavioral responses for the purpose of goal attainment.
What is executive functioning?
500
Sarah has an IQ of 135 and has the ability to solve problems and think about things in a way that others do not. This is an example of _________.
What is Giftedness?
500
Adults adopt this mode of speech when talking to babies and very young children. (and probably their dogs!).
What is infant-directed speech?
500
1. _________ is emphasized in sociocultural theories. It is a process where a more knowledgeable person organizes activities in a way that allows less knowledgeable people to learn. 2. ________ is a process where infants and their social partners focus on the same external object.
1. What is guided participation? 2. What is joint attention?