Piaget
This psychologist believed that children actively build their understanding of the world through experience.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This psychologist believed that social interaction plays a key role in children’s learning and cognitive development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This theorist believed that moral reasoning develops through stages and is influenced by social and cultural contexts.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
He created the Bioecological Model of Human Development and helped start the Head Start program in 1965.
Who is Urie Bronfenbrenner?
He believed that personality development is shaped by both personal needs and social relationships.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Which stage is birth–2 years?
What is the Sensorimotor Stage?
According to Vygotsky, learning happens best when children interact with more knowledgeable people like parents or teachers. What is this theory called?
What is the Sociocultural Theory?
At this level, moral judgments are based on avoiding punishment or gaining rewards.
What is the Preconventional Level?
What is the system that includes a person’s closest relationships and activities, like family and school?
What is the Microsystem?
What is the stage in adolescence where teens try to figure out who they are called?
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
Which stage is 2–7 years?
What is the Preoperational Stage?
What is the term for giving students help while they learn new skills like prompts and reminders until they can do it alone?
What is Scaffolding?
At this stage, being “good” means obeying laws and authority figures.
What is the Law and Order Orientation (Stage 4)?
Bronfenbrenner believed development is shaped by both biology and environment. What is this called?
What is Nature and Nurture working together?
Our knowledge and beliefs about ourselves, our ideas, feelings, and attitudes.
What is Self-concept?
Which stage is 7–11 years?
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
Vygotsky described this as the area between what a student can do alone and what they can do with help.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)?
At this level, people make moral choices based on personal principles like equality and human rights.
What is the Postconventional Level?
Which parenting style shows high warmth and high control and usually seen as the most balanced and effective?
What is Authoritative?
According to Jean Phinney, what is it called when someone blends both their cultural worlds together?
What is Biculturalism (or Integration)?
Which stage is 11–adult?
What is the Formal Operational Stage?
According to Vygotsky, what helps people in a society think, solve problems, and communicate , like computers, rulers, or language?
What are Cultural Tools?
This psychologist argued that Kohlberg’s research ignored women’s moral reasoning, which often focuses more on care and relationships.
Who is Carol Gilligan?
What is the term for groups of children or teens who share their own rules, styles, and behaviors?
What is Peer Culture?
How can media affect a student’s self-concept?
What is It can shape how they see themselves, both positively and negatively?